In the last century, when most people grew their own food, the English
countryside was dotted with bee skeps like these. Usually woven by hand
from vines or straw, skeps attracted bees and made harvesting honey
easy. ......
Now, this looks simple to make..what does it look like inside? Does it
have chambers? How do the bees get in, make honey, etc and how do you
get the honey without getting stung? What attracts the bees to begin
with? I think I could make one of these in less than an hour and if it
would indeed attract bees, then I could always get someone else to
collect the honey. At the very least, it would be a cool garden
ornament.
Bev
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I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 38 years.
Bevanron of Rock Creek
erthnsky AT bellsouth.net
take the honey---usually sacrificing queen and colony. Also you cannot addtvoivozhd---the defect of a bee skep was that it had to be demolished to
Years ago when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in E. Africa. I ran accross
a Hungarian beekeeper. He showed me a book that illustrated hive boxes
made from grass. To make a long story short I found this an ideal
construction material in S. Sudan which enabled me to make removable
(top bar only) frame hives, since I didn't have extraction equipement.
Since returning to the US almost 17 years ago I played around with this
idea and even went as far as showing boxes at a North Dakota assocation
meeting...just to get some feed back. That was maybe 10 years ago. I
never advanced the method because it would take some kind of mechanized
system to work here in the US. Overseas the hand contruction method fit
> In our pine cabin the bumble bees have drilled hundreds of holesin > >the soffits, > > I believe what you have is callled carpenter(or
On 12 Mar 99, at 17:47, Tvoivozhd wrote:
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> Now if they would only legalize formic acid here. The only hives that
> are really strong here are a handful under the aegis of Virginia Tech.
> The others using Apistan and Terramycin patties are gone.
I've been thinking about the formic acid. Since I don't sell anything
to the public, why would anyone care if I use formic acid? The only
problem is, I don't know exactly how it is used.
Kathleen
tvoivozhd---a virtue of formic acid is that it is always present in small
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