"The chief peculiarity in my hive was the facility with which they could be removed without enraging the bees. I could dispense with natural swarming, and yet multiply colonies with greater rapidity and certainly than by the common methods feeble colonies could be strengthened, and those which had lost their queen furnished with the means of obtaining another.If I suspected that any thing was wrong with a hive, I could quickly ascertain its true condition, and apply the proper remedies." - L.L. Langstroth in Langstroth on the Honey-Bee, 1860.
A honey bee box is made up of a hive stand, bottom board, hive bodies (brooder), honey supers, and a cover. The lower hive body is separated from the supers above by an excluder. Since I am still in the stage of building up, I still don't have honey supers as of now but I'm getting ready at it and I'm still on the lower hive, and I already bought a queen excluder in case I'm ready to have honey supers. In my own set-up of a bee hive box I bought a 3/4"TCK sheet and a 1/2"TCK sheet of plywoods to make 6 pcs of bee hive box which would contain the 9 pcs of frames, the paint I bought was enamel since bee hive box needed to be painted because it is placed outdoors. I already bought another sheet of a 3/4"TCK plywood for the honey supers and will process it soon, my set-up for the honey supers are the same size as the brood box. The standard style hive for 75% of the world's beekeepers was invented by Rev. Lorenzo Langstroth, he patented his design on 1860, He built a hive with frames that hung from the top ends of the hive, leaving a 3/8 inch space between all sides of the frames and the hive body. His clever design used the principle that bees usually do not build comb in 3/8 inch passageways. If the space is bigger than 3/8 of an inch, the bees will build comb. If it is less than 1/4 inch, they will attach propolis.Langstroth's frames were easily handled without breaking the comb. Today we refer to the 3/8 inch passageways as a "bee-space." This practical hive is the direct ancestor of the modern hive that is most popular today. In describing the benefits of his hive with movable frames, Langstroth wrote:
"The chief peculiarity in my hive was the facility with which they could be removed without enraging the bees. I could dispense with natural swarming, and yet multiply colonies with greater rapidity and certainly than by the common methods feeble colonies could be strengthened, and those which had lost their queen furnished with the means of obtaining another.If I suspected that any thing was wrong with a hive, I could quickly ascertain its true condition, and apply the proper remedies." - L.L. Langstroth in Langstroth on the Honey-Bee, 1860.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Dilan's Apiary
Address: Kagudoy Road, Basak, Lapu-Lapu City Archives
June 2022
Categories
All
|