Comments on: Collapsed Honey Bee Comb Repair

By: marissa

marissa — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:34:21 +0000

Thank you!!! This was so helpful and made me feel more positive about repairing the damage of my poor installation.

By: David LaFerney

David LaFerney — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:45:56 +0000

I did quite a lot of research, but most of it was online. Actually the thing that got me started was randomly running across “Bee Keeping for Dummies” at the book store.

That book planted the seed of interest, but it just assumes that you will use the full range of therapeutic chemicals, while it also advocates some controversial use of commercial essential oil products.

The best source for information that I know of is Michael Bush’s natural honey bee keeping web site – http://www.bushfarms.com/bees.htm. Some of what he say is controversial, but if you used it as your soul source of information you would probably do fine.

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:28:01 +0000

Since spying an article in “Birds and Blooms” about your $50 greenhouse, I have been reading your blog. I’m loving it! Since being laid off, I have researched different ideas of bringing in more money than unemployment alots. Your bee blog really inspired me to get on with it. Did you research your info and/or buy a how-to book?

By: Fuzzy Wolf

Fuzzy Wolf — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:26:49 +0000

Small cell foundation is available. A section on bees belongs in every garden blog. Approximately 80% of our food is insect pollinated and bees do it best. So your bee segment is indeed appreciated. My dad kept bees when I was a kid and I too had a couple of close calls with death from bee stings. I went through 2 year series of shots to get my body to stop reacting to them that way and now don’t have to fear bees anymore. I will be adding bees to my garden this next spring as I have been having to hand pollinate. garden way/ storey publishing has a good home built honey extractor that leaves the comb intact so that the bees don’t have to use resources to remake comb. Thanks for your blog, come check out mine sometime, they compliment each other.

By: David LaFerney

David LaFerney — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:12:04 +0000

I don’t know if you should really try that this late in the season. Why don’t you want to just keep them in the top bar hive?
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Anyway, if you do decide to cut out your bees and put them in frames I’ve come up with a better way – put thumbtacks every inch or so on both sides of the top and bottom bars of the frames you will be putting the combs in, then stretch rubber bands from top to bottom on one side. Then after you lay the combs in the frame you can put the rubber bands on the other side to hold them in. Make sure they are in the center of the frame and parallel with it or they will still be wonky after the bees stitch them back. Good luck.
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BTW – http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php – this forum has lots of people who know way more about this than I do who are happy to give advice to beginners. You should check it out.