Placing a third box on the Warre Beehive

Well the time has come that I have the time to place a third box under one of my Warre Hives. I have two hives and one of them is a lot stronger that the other. The strong hive needs an additional box and within three weeks the second hive will need the additional hive box.

I once again did not smoke the hive as I removed the roof, the wood chip box, and then moved the two hive boxes at the same time. I put the third box on and reassembled the hive.  They did not even seem to care that I had moved the hive and settled down quickly after I reassembled the hive.

Quick Update Warre Beehive

It has ben awhile since I was able to post. I have had some major events in my life and did not have the time to post. The best event that just happened was yesterday when my great granddaughter was born.  She is so sweet and very small and am thankful to God for allowing her to be born healthy.


I have been watching my bees as much as possible the last two months and decided it was time to add another box. The problem was that with my wife in the hospital and with her recovery I did not have time to build my own boxes.  As a result I made the decision to buy two boxes and assemble them myself.  Now, I think it was the right choice as I was able to see some ways to improve my boxes.

This picture shows the side for the inspection window. I tried to place one in my box and it did not turn out well. Now I know how to put on in and not having to worry about it not staying in place.

Also, I was able to make a pattern to hold the top bars in place so they will not move without having to use nails.  If you look at the left side of the picture you will see the places the top bars slide in place. Look at the above picture and you can see a better view of this.



What I did is make myself a pattern from one of the unassembled boxes and will now use it to make my next hive boxes.  Happy Beekeeping!

Checked on Warre Beehive

Yesterday was a busy day with studying for Wednesday night Bible study. But we had a warm day so I opened the Warre Beehives and checked to make sure the queens were released.  Monday and Tuesday were too cold to open the hives so waited until it warmed up. 


I again checked on the bees without smoking them. They flew all around me but never acted like they wanted to sting me. I did get bumped a couple of time and I just back off and let them settle down, They were drawing comb but I did not want to pull any out at this time. They are bringing in loads of pollen. and I have followed some of them to wild flowers and they are also getting nectar.


I had some jar feeders in the top of the Warre hives I needed to move them so that I could fix the bottom box that the top bars were not lined up correctly. Well in one of the hives I spilled the sugar water everywhere inside and outside the hive. This caused some robbing from the other Warre beehive so I had to move the opening to the side where the sugar water was not at the entrance. Within about 30 minutes they all returned to their own hives.


I will now wait until the first of May to open the hives and check for eggs and brood.