Top bar hives

[The Drone Ranger]

Hi Kitta

When I am trying something new out I am never sure how it will go
bees vary a lot in how they behave and local conditions as you know
When you hear about Glenn hives etc what you seldom know much about is the bees they were using
I think a lot of the time they were Italian X everything else and inclined to big colonies

If I was lucky enough to have some wood for building a top bar hive I might go for a small box vertical type like Warre
The Long Deep Hive has it's supporters and they become expert in a different beekeeping method
Possibly fans may have started with co-operative bees and the right location
Wee Willy is saying he suspects this matters quite a bit (in the previous post)
The advantage of a long deep hive though is no lifting and easy access to the broodnest
Checking for queen cells is tricky enough at the best of times.
I can see that is easy on the Long Deep type
Possibly you split the warre boxes and just look along the bottom for cells ?
Plenty time to decide which though - the whole Winter