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- Monitoring Temperature and Humidity on Beehives
Why does the humidity matter so much on a beehive and how do I control it? Temperature itself doesn't affect bees so much, since they can regulate their own temperature and the beehive's temperature On the other hand, humidity in the beehive has several negative effects on the well-being of
- Build It Yourself - Equipment Plans in PDF format
10-Frame Langstroth Beehive - Barry Birkey The thumbnail image above is clickable, so you can see a larger image, but to download the actual PDF file to your system, click on the PDF attachment below
- BeeHive Inspection Form - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
BeeHive Inspection Form form inspections Jump to Latest 15K views 10 replies 7 participants last post by candyje May 12, 2022
- Beehive clearance and distance to neighbors - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
I'm trying to come up with the best hive location - while having the location be out of view from neighbors I have one location that seems perfect, shielded the north and south sides by vegetation, the west side less vegetation but is about 150 feet from my house, 50 feet from my chickens (in
- 10-FRAME LANGSTROTH BEEHIVE - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
The species of wood used to 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
- Plans for horizontal hive using deep frames - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
I am interested in trying to design a horizontal beehive using deep Langstroth frames Basically the idea would be a topbar hive design with straight walls, frame rests and deep frames The reasons I want to do this are basically to get to benefits of using frames -- the comb would be
- Bees gone - hive empty What happened - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Freeze the comb for a couple of days, the store it in a cool dry place in plastic bags for next year It's the most valuable resource you can have when trying to start a hive What happened, I can't guess with the info you gave How long since you last looked at the hive If there was lots of honey and now it's all gone, the hive was likely robbed out Unless it has been a little while and the
- Hive entrance size. - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
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 The ¾" reducer does have
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