Top Bar Hive

[ski]

Well I got a top bar Hive for my birthday last year.
We heard a presentation at the State Beekeepers spring meeting last year and I thought the kits they sold were nice but I changed my mind after I saw the price. But my family bought it for me so I can't complain. Should be a something fun to play with. Now I am just trying to figure out where it should be placed.

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[Locust & Honey]

Awesome!!! Top bar hive is a definite for me this year.

[ski]

Trying to give the top bar hive some comb. Hopefully it will hold on to the top bar until the bees do there thing.


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[Locust & Honey]

How are your bees in this hive?

[ski]

No bees in the top bar hive yet, plan on putting a swarm in whenever. The comb is just something for the swarm to start on, like putting a frame of comb in a standard hive.

[ski]

On April 20 one of my hives issued about a 3 pound swarm and I put them in the topbar hive.

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About 24 hours later you can see the cluster through the viewing window in the topbar hive hanging from the topbars.
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