Making Up Beehive Frames

Next take your razor blade and cut off any slivers extra pieces of wood from your.

Making up beehive frames. How to wire a frame a beginner beekeeper s guide 1. Plain ol beekeeping in plano tx 106 750 views. These queenless hives usually comprise of nurse bees some brood honey and pollen to keep them fed until some of the brood emerge to take over nursing duties leading to the graduation of nurse bees to foragers. Empty hive boxes are useful to stack the finished frames into.

Frames can be completed to the first stage in any temperature but the fitting of the foundation and final assembly should be conducted indoors or in a heated shed. Treat the frame assembly and the fitting of foundation as two separate jobs. The bottom board the supers the frames and the cover s. Beekeeper often have to make a new frames for the bee hives.

On the same side of the frame partially hammer another 5 8 nail into top bar. Beekeeping making medium frames langstroth duration. A common configuration is made using deep supers for the brood chambers and the medium supers or shallow supers for the honey. And if you add a super but don t put in the frames you ll end up with a box of cross comb attached to the roof of your hive which is a real mess to fix.

In addition to the prepared dry strips and thin wire you need shoe nails a hammer an awl and pliers with wire cutters. First you need the following tools hammer razor blade carpenter s square wood glue. Ideally your virgin queen will be taken care of in a nuc hive which usually holds about 5 frames. If you put fewer frames in than the box is meant to hold the bees will build rogue comb in the empty space.

Langstroth hives are built in two styles meant to hold either eight or 10 frames. There are four basic components to a beehive. The process is simple. How to assemble a frame a beginner beekeeper s guide 1.

First install the eyelets into the side bars of the frame using the eyelet punch.