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2021年3月9日 · The Double Screen or Snellgrove Board is a management tool that allows the beekeeper to make two queen hives, make multiple nucleus hives on top of a main hive, or divide the hive for swarm control. It has 8 entrances, top and bottom entrances on each side which can be opened or kept closed. Sized for a Langstroth Beehive.
Monitoring Temperature and Humidity on Beehives
2022年2月1日 · On the other hand, humidity in the beehive has several negative effects on the well-being of the hive, the worst of all being that it endangers the honeybee colony living there, since with humidity levels below 50% eggs can't hatch meaning that the colony numbers will drop.
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2018年9月15日 · New to bees. And, decided to build my first beehive, which I thought would be part of the fun of being a beekeeper. After doing some reading about various beehive standards, I settled on wanting a horizontal longstroth beehive. Here are a few pictures of my hive as I slowly build it. I'm building it out of pine.
What is the Minimum Temperature that is Safe to Open a Hive?
2007年10月16日 · I took honey off a yard two days ago. The high forcast for the day was 56 . It was warm enough for them to fly but as I took it off at aprox 11:00 there was few bees in the honey supers.
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2012年5月19日 · I'm wondering about the hive entrance size. I built my Langstroth hives to spec off of plans here, with a 3/8" gap between the bottom board and the hive body, however, I noticed that my friends commercially purchased hives have a ¾" "entrance" gap with a ¾" reducer.
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2021年2月14日 · BeeHive Lifters For Sale Made in US. Helps to Lift And Move Hives BeeHive Lifter is the perfect tool to ...
Flies in the hive... - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
2011年7月7日 · They probably are still weak and have not cleaned up some of the smell.Flies can smell traces of methane from rotting materials from great distances.There still could be foulbrood in there and the bees are cleaning out the larvae from them and you are not seeing it.If there is any chance of it being AFB you better burn it all because it can stay in the wax for ever.Bees can wander in from ...
make a beehive can vary depending upon what is available in your area. The minimum thickness should not be less than 3/4". If you are using standard dimensional lumber, you can use 1x8 (3/4" x 7-1/4") for both shallow and medium super, and 1x12 (3/4" x 11-1/4") for the deep hive body. Start by cutting the boards to length. For fronts and backs,
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2016年11月30日 · I have been putting nucs in a shed to overwinter for 3 winters now. I have nuc boxes with a 1" hole drilled in the front, and i set them in the shed approx. 6" from the wall and have a 1" clear plastic tube sticking out a hole thru the sheds sides. i leave a qt. jar of syrup in a cut out in the lid, and a have a small [milk house ] heater on a thermostat set at 40 deg. this has been working ...
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2016年7月26日 · Next project, 2 - 10 frame boxes glommed together to make one 21 deep frame long brood chamber, and a single stack of medium supers on top in the middle.