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Beekeeping: how to make a top bar beehive (Kenyan top bar hive model)

This technology describes step by step how to make a top bar hive (Kenyan model). A top bar hive, or moveable comb hive, is a rectangle box covered with bars of a fixed width. Bees will build their combs from the centre of the top bar, hanging down. To attract a swarm to the hive and to “guide” the bees in the construction of the combs, a strip of bees wax can be melted on the centre of the top bar. The moveable combs allow to inspect the hive by lifting up the combs, and to replace a mature honey comb (sealed comb) with an empty bar, for the bees to continue collecting nectar.

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Auteur: National Bee Unit at The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera)
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Organisation: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Année: 2020
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Pays: Malawi
Couverture géographique: Afrique
Type: Pratiques
Texte intégral disponible à l'adresse: https://www.fao.org/teca/en/technologies/7274
Langue: English
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