Topbar Beekeeping with Les Crowder

[@Majorme2]

It’s the only way to keep bees..thanks to you and Phil chandler. I’m an avid top bar beekeeper

[@VictoriaKogan]

Loved this video, Thank you!

[@smilingdog54]

Best information I have heard!

[@mayamachine]

really good information, I like his approach, and that he promotes Michael Bush...

[@dlawrence7826]

He's wonderfully informative as always!

[@jarnold8803]

Great video, I am in north Texas and transforming to les crowder topbar hive. Do you have a video on setting the hive up for winter configuration.

[@michaeldreyer3911]

Hi Les, I wonder how did you produce the round frames in the long hive in the upper left picture of topbarr hives in your video.

[@FlylightD]

I’ve heard that it was bad to treat with essential oils because the essential oils are too strong and interferes with the bees sense of smell. I can see how that would be true if you use pure essential oil dropped right into the hive but what if someone used a diffuser with diluted oil in a hive similarly to the way Les recommends using juniper or cedar wood in the smoker to help with a mite infestation?

[@PingHansen]

Les Crowder is wrong about Warré hives not having movable comb, as the comb in my Warré hives not only is easily movable but also easily re-inserted. All you need, is to use is the very same hooked knife that is used to detach the comb in Kenya-style top bar hives. A long, slim kitchen knife will work almost as well.

[@timothymitchell8310]

I think what he was saying is that Warre’s original thought did not require frames but was comb fixed like a skep or a Japanese tier or pile box hive.

[@PingHansen]

@@timothymitchell8310 Actually, I think he is referring to the fact that Warré himself nailed his top bars in place, thus rendering them immovable (without tools)-. I use nails myself, but those nails fit into slots I've cut in my top bars. That way my top bars are kept in pace while still being movable.

[@shadmorgan5491]

Simply fifty years of building solutions for core basics not understood. *rotational selection for frame management in stacks *thermodynamics of the static air mass in hive(vertical) as bees manage conditions *selection of goals as micromanaged outcomes for stacks... ergo "beekeeping" versus "beehaving" Simply two different products of the same era, my KTBH efforts abandoned in 1973, it is the case the years since spent studying apiculture have built space where TTBH (LONGLANG) and Lang stacks are easily purposed for respective outcomes. Yet neither will compete with KTBH for the same reason I abandoned that format decades ago - the format is quaint for it's oddity, and really first worlds advocates insult the cultures which must use them... that Pilgrim arrogance kept alive through "bringing gospel to the natives". Shad