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Old 06-15-2020, 12:39 PM   #11
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Looks good! Yea your gonna wanna keep them in the frames or they will fill your lid with burr comb imho. Did you make a divider?
I did make a divider to keep the hive area appropriate in size and so that I could split the box and use it for splitting hives or something.

I don't have an inner cover yet, but I will. Not sure if I'm going to run some strips through the table saw or just use burlap or something. I'm open to suggestions on that for sure.

I started with the 5 frames from the trap and added I think 10 more.


I did try something new...I've had trouble getting them to build on the black plastic frames....so I melted a couple of pounds of bees wax and had the kids paint that on them with a brush to see if it would help, and I'm predicting it will.

KS....
I'm doing it because it's a different way...just wanted to try it.
The advantage is there aren't boxes to lift or remove to be able to inspect the hive. You can pretty easily determine where the brood(babies) are located and just pull the frames you need to for inspection with less disturbance to the colony. If they fill it up, I'll pull the honey frames and place new ones in their place... Another benefit of this style is supposed to be the thickness of the wood used to build the box makes it easier to overwinter in colder climates.

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