Rural Gardening: My bees i Sleeping, 1 by hobbyodlaren

hobbyodlaren wrote:
Hi Liz
My name is Sylvia and my husband Frank who is the beekeeper, I´m only the helper. So far we only have these two hives. We start beekeeping this spring, but next summer 2009 we hope to have at lest 2 hives more.
My husband have build the hives as called "wanderinghives" . Easy to move.

My intend is to do a picturewiew with his joinery when he builds hives. We will see if I get it ready some times in winter . Then I shall broadcast a link.

The roof have 5 cm feedstuff . And are covered with tarred felt. We can get down to -16 F even that it is unusual now for the time. Snow only perhaps 1 decimetre a couple of days during the winter, formerly we had very cold and much snow here, but never the last 10 years, the winters have been very mild.
Entrance cover in the entrefront is for protection against sun, rain and wind.
Curzio
The netting around the entrencecover is to protect the bees against the bird (Parus major)
which tap on the beehive entrance, when the bee look whats up, the bird take it and eat it.
They have become that it is easy food in the winter here in Sweden.

For the mice the opening is reduced in the winter with a metal-tied that only leaves rounded hole in 8 mm in diameter (too small for mice to get in).

We live in the country, about 6 miles outside the town. We have most field and arable land around us. The weed Dandelion and field with rapeseed. And also field with wheat and other kind of corn.
Amazing Liz with Mississippi river, we have an little little brook behind one field in front of our house.
Very nice to read about your experience over there.
Enclose a picture over the metalcover used in the winter to protect against mice.
Sylvia