{"id":443,"date":"2011-05-09T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linode.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=443"},"modified":"2011-05-09T09:52:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:52:02","slug":"hive-2-top-bar-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Hive #2 \u2013 Top Bar Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drove out to get our packages last Thursday.  After a few sessions in the garage with some wood, a table saw, nails, glue, paint and pot of hot beeswax, we put together three top bar hives.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night when I got home with my package, I took off the wooden door, took out the syrup can and queen cage and put them in the hive.  I nailed the strapping on the queen cage to a bar and let it hang.  There was a feeder in the back end of the hive, the queen in the middle, then the syrup can and finally the package box in the front.  I pulled the front bar back just enough to let bees get in and out.<\/p>\n<p>Friday morning I drove to Connecticut for a First Holy Communion.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night when I got back, there was enough light to check the hive.<\/p>\n<p>The queen cage was perpendicular to the bars and the bees built a nice piece of comb, maybe 5 inches in diameter, with nectar (syrup?) and pollen cells, off the bottom of the queen cage.  I took the queen cage out and as I hadn&#8217;t pulled the cork, I popped out the cork and then stapled the cage back on the top bar, but aligned along the bar so that the resulting comb will be along a bar.<\/p>\n<p>There were two or three other combs already taking shape on the waxed bars.<\/p>\n<p>No bees were left in the package cage, so I removed it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the bees flying in and out on Monday:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5NVLmTnT62M?hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5NVLmTnT62M?hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove out to get our packages last Thursday. After a few sessions in the garage with some wood, a table saw, nails, glue, paint and pot of hot beeswax, we put together three top bar hives. Thursday night when I got home with my package, I took off the wooden door, took out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siwko.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}