_How much honey to leave in the top bar over winter.

_- How to transfer bees from national hive by adding bars to box
- Waiting till the bees are ready to build comb, not early in season
- Look for pieces of white comb.
- Put one bar in National and see how they respond.
- You can use the National to repeatedly create new combs+ brood for the growing top bar colony.

_This video shows:
- A National/Top bar crossbreed hive for transferring a colony from national combs to top bars.
- It also mentions how you can use spacers between top bars.
- How to use 6 mm dowels on top bars to reinforce comb.
- There's a bit of waxmoth ID
- How to prevent comb collapse through slumping.

_How to use spacers to create 35mm bars for brood and 40mm comb for honey.
How to create variable spacing on hives and prevent bridge comb.
Phil comments on sugar powder on bees and being careful not to block the bees 'breathing tubes'

_ This video covers:
- Top bar reinforcement with 6mm dowels to stop breaking.
- Description of the process of building up a top bar hive from 3 bars.
- Why to add bars only two at a time.
- How to encourage straight bee combs.
- Warning about putting 3 bars straight into a brood nest to avoid stressing and chilling the bees.
- Build up gradually to 15/16 bars.
- how to identify the marker comb that indicates when only honey stores will be laid. (really useful tip).
-Description of comb being built wider, from 35mm to 40mm.
-Adapting bars with a 'shim' to adjust the width of the top bar
-Then he describes how he harvests honey from the hive. How much and when.

_-Answering questions like:
-What to do when your top bar forms queen cells.
-Should you reduce the amount of queen cells
-Why to remove the older queen cells.
-How often to check on the hive