Top Bar Beehive Inspection

Top bar beehive inspection ten days after install. Bees Have built comb ten bars out from the entrance to the hive. Queen be is spotted laying eggs on the fifth bar. Please rate and comment, let me know what you would like to see.

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Education

Tags:

• top
• bar
• hive
• queen
• bee
• apiary
• honeybee
• beekeeping
• beekeeper
• topbar
• kenya
• honey
• africanized
• honeycomb
• sting

[nancybobro]

Great video!! Is this really 10 days after installing them? Is that a typo?

If it is I bet you had more than 3lbs in your package. They are doing phenomenally!

Even if it is 10 weeks later I am impressed!

[dragonhlm]

@nancybobro No typo. TEN D A Y S later.

[OutOfaBlueSky]

Wow, 27 bars? you must be in a good floral area. Is it a first year hive? Were you feeding during that period?

[dragonhlm]

I am in an urban area. The bees are from a 3lb package. When I installed the bees in April I tried to feed them, but they were not interested in my feeder. You can see the feeder in my previous video "3hrs later". My latest video is coming soon so please subscribe and/or friend.

Thanks

[Linkryan]

glad u didnt get stung without any protection but great video

[kidgecartoon]

Great video! You guys are cool!

[mrtoretos]

what do you inspect on the hive ?

[50mrfish]

is a queen excluder used in a top bar hive and if so what type. could you show one in your next video. i plan to build a top bar this winter for use this year. thank you.

[mugsyjeff]

Fantastic, it's always exciting to find the queen, I share your passion for the bees. That's a great result after 10 days.

[MeestaBojangles]

You are a total gee, I don't have even an ounce of balls to pull one of them out.

[Mhdlagha]

@11mac11s Bees will start building from the side or the corner they group in, and you can see it a lot especially in weak hives that bees groups together in the smallest place possible.

So in my opinion you shall make the combs too close to each other and don't forget to use foundation to make sure you direct wax building.

sometimes it refer to the species. for example japanese bees build in a sort of diagonal

[lonepeakihc]

Any plans or schematics for the TBH? Ive seen lots of ideas on the net, but yours look the best and most practical. My email is Schedule3@yahoo.com. I live in SLC

[WavyGravyTrain1]

Do those bees sting?

[anuttama]

Great video! The topbar comb is so beautiful: shaped like a heart. Our problem is that it takes quite a long time to go through the topbar hives because of trying to avoid squishing bees when putting the bars back. So we are tending towards topbar/Langstroth hybrids. The bees are healthier in the topbar hives, though. Beautiful filming of the queen!