The box is made of plywood and pine, insulated in the inside and topped with a double pane glass window on the top. In a mild day,of 80 F in the sun, the temperature inside the box reached 176F more than enough to melt the wax from the beehives.
My wife and I got into keeping honeybees this year. Pictured is a new hive that I've built to accommodate a new group of bees that I will possibly get when my present bees swarm in the spring, due to crowding in their existing hive.
The first picture shows the complete hive with all it...
I haven't seen a honeybee on my property for two years now, and being a man of action, I decided I needed to do my part and help the bees. After looking at the price of boxes from apiary supply houses, I decided to build my own hives. I'd like to have a top-bar hive, but the gentleman who is...
The bees are really kicking ass right now. I split my one hive into five hives, then one of them swarmed, and I was able to capture the swarm, so now I have SIX hives! I did sell one of them to the farm owner where I'm placing all but two of them, but I'm still tending to them all.
Especially...
Having a woodworking shop is almost essential if you are a beekeeper. Besides repair and building it allows for experimentation.
With our wet wet wet winter last year (and this year seems to be the same) I decided to make bee boxes out of cedar 2×6s. To get the necessary widths I splined pieces...
Bee Hives
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I'm wondering if anyone can help me out with a project I'm working on. I founded Bee Found, a nonprofit designed to give free bees, hives and mentorship to veterans with PTSD. I had to suspend operations this year due to a deployment (i'm in the National Guard)...
I need to drill a 1/4 hole through the middle of a roughly foot long wooden dowel for a fishing rod handle. I could use shorter pre-drilled pieces laminated together but that would destroy the grain. I could use a footlong 2×2 then turn it on a lathe, but I still need some advice on drilling...