Robo’s World

Special Thanks to Jim Hensel for sharing this idea, photos, and directions. Background: I am making my own hive boxes. I have researched handles and the choices are as follows: 1. Cleat 2. Dado slot 3. Canoe shaped routed pocket But I wanted something more. I noticed that many “store bought” boxes have a routed [...]

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I have recently teamed up with Robb Russell from the Wildlife Pro Network to coordinate and co-host the WpN monthly beekeeping podcast. The podcast is on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 8PM EST. You can check out the upcoming podcasts and listen to the recorded podcasts here. I’m always open for suggested topics [...]

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It’s springtime and a lot of folks are eager to expand their apiary by doing splits. Splits are very popular since they are “almost free”. Problem is, a good portion of those doing splits use the “walk away” method because it’s easy and cheap without thinking it through. Bees will rear queens in three different [...]

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It seems like frames and frame assembly is something that the beginners on Beemaster forums often have questions about. So with the help of my son, I’m working on putting together a series of short videos. Here is the first session which is an overview of frame types, frame sizes, and frame styles. I will [...]

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I don’t like to put frame spacers in my supers because I like to start new un-drawn frames 10 to a super to get the comb drawn correctly. Once the frames are drawn, I reduce them to 9 per super to make extracting easier. I’ve tried putting 9-frame spacers in some and no spacers in [...]

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