The Making of a Log Beehive

February 11, 2012 by solarbeez

Posted in Hives, Log hives, Natural Beekeeping, Videos | Tagged beekeeping, Feral bees, honey bees, Log hive wood carving, Log hives, pollinators, Verticle log hive, wood carving | 11 Comments

11 Responses

on February 12, 2012 at 7:43 am | Reply Brian & Zada Vorwaller

AWESOME!!!! We really enjoyed being a part of Beebeard! It looks great and it was a lot of fun! Thank you Pat!!
- on February 12, 2012 at 10:35 am | Reply solarbeez
  
  It was great working with you. Not only did you do want I wanted but you were innovative with things that improved the outcome. I would have never thought of the swing-away hat.
  Zada, thanks for capturing the video so well.
on July 29, 2012 at 8:16 am | Reply Cat

Reblogged this on awakening to heal and commented:
This is the most unique and beautiful hive I have encountered yet. A whole new kind of inspiration for beekeeping.
- on July 29, 2012 at 10:59 am | Reply solarbeez
  
  Thanks for the reblog. The log hive is an experiment to see how the bees can survive without too much human intervention. I can’t keep from looking at them, so I guess you could say that is intervention, but I’m not going to feed them or hang miticides, and certainly not going to take any honey. Meanwhile, I’m growing as many bee-loving plants and flowers as I can manage, trying to provide a poison-free bee habitat.
on July 29, 2012 at 8:18 am | Reply Cat

So cool! I loved watching the video of how it was made. I could really get a sense of how the face evolved out of the log, inspiring to me as an artist and beekeeper. And it adds to my awe of the chainsaw.
on August 11, 2012 at 5:34 pm | Reply bountifulnature

Wow, absolutely love this hive, i have just hived a swarm in a national (i live in the UK) but i want to try a log hive, and poss a top bar hive. Problem is when ever i look at my log hive i just know that my first thought will be ‘aahh I wish you were bee beard’ . Brilliant. Have shared the vid on facebook
- on August 11, 2012 at 8:04 pm | Reply solarbeez
  
  I’m not sure what a national is, I know Phil Chandler of biobees.com has mentioned them. Bee Beard has exceeded all expectations. My first swarm I put into a Warre hive. It was a small swarm and it built comb in the first month and then didn’t do much else. Three days after that swarm I got the feral bees in the bait hive. It was much bigger and while I had some trouble transferring into Bee Beard, it has just grown bigger and bigger. I thought that the cavity was a little on the small side. One of the commenters on biobees.com advised…”let the bees decide.” I guess the bees have decided.
- on August 22, 2012 at 3:38 pm | Reply Zada Vorwaller
  
  Thank you all for the likes of Bee Beard!! Brian really enjoyed carving him and I enjoyed taking the video!! We’re so happy that the Bees like him and have made him into their home!!!
on December 21, 2012 at 11:58 am | Reply Eddy Winko

Fantastic, how did I not read this post already 🙂
on February 11, 2013 at 6:14 am | Reply Emma Sarah Tennant

I wish we could have a bee beard for our apiary. Lucky bees!
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