Episode #89 March 2nd Brood Check

Early March brood check on amount of brood honey and pollen stores.

[@ScouseJack]

If they need shade, that brings up the topic of trees for bees, which is a lot fun 🙂

[@simplytopbarbeekeeping2107]

I’m not familiar with the topic of Trees for Bees could you please explain?

[@ScouseJack]

Mike Connor has some good vids talking about which varieties of tree are most useful to our honeybees, other people too.

[@jarnold8803]

What is the width of your side boards? Your comb look longer that mine. I am using 2 x 10 sides here in North Texas. I also have the ends open on the ends of the top for airflow

[@simplytopbarbeekeeping2107]

Please check out this video I made, kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKm6coSZe9OKe5osi=iFGfkPZLZqCILopv after building three different styles of hives. This is the one that works best for me. Hopefully you can use some of it in your builds. Two things I would like to mention first on the top bars instead of using a wood strip, I might choose to use an inch piece of plastic foundation as a starter strip. Second the only trouble I have is the last four or five bars at the honey end the bees can build such large comb. It’s very heavy. The past two hot summers I’ve had some comb collapse on those. I saw a guy in Australia put a quarter inch dial rod vertically in the middle of the top bars. I tried that on a few last summer I think it’s going to help. Thanks for your comments. Hope you have a good year with the bees.