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The most crucial area of the beehive is the brood box, where in actuality the queen bee lays her eggs. The brood box is the biggest single area of the hive and contains ten brood frames. Each frame is usually strengthened with thin hardened steel wire, about four strands pulled over the frame and stretched tight. This strengthening of the frame is essential because the honeycombs with the honey are heavy. To encourage the bees to create honeycombs so your beekeeper can work more comfortably with the brood frames a bee's wax sheet is positioned hanging down, wedged at the the top of frame and supported by the thin hardened steel wire. The worker bees make honeycombs hanging down from the very best of every brood frame. The queen bee will lay her eggs in the cells of the honeycombs the worker bees built. The eggs will end up larvae and is going to be fed by the worker bees. This brood box is focused on the queen bee on her behalf to lay eggs and to keep the bee colony alive. The brood box is never robbed. Honey Bees Slot

Other less noticed elements of the brood box are the entrance slots where in actuality the worker bees will enter the beehive and leave to go and collect pollen and nectar. My preference is to create these entrance slots in the leading area of the brood box at the bottom, one on the left and one on the right. I make my entrance slots about sixty millimetres lengthwise and the height about ten millimetres. This entrance will easily enable the queen bee to come and go once the swarm splits. The entrances are also to small for rodents. The reason for two entrances being opposite one another is to permit the bees to fan a circular wind movement keeping the beehive cool in summer. My winters are cold but we do not have snow and so the bees simply wax up another entrance, this restricts the circular movement of air keeping the hive warmer in winter. Leading of the hive also must have a slender landing strip about fifty millimetres wide. This strip is going to be used for the honey bees to complete their dance, through that your bees communicate the precise distance and location of any new nectar and pollen findings. Honey Bees Bingo

On the top of brood box we will stack the supers which are much smaller boxes. A beehive might have several supers stacked one on the top of other. The queen bee needs to be prevented from entering some of the supers, otherwise she'll lay her eggs there, and the objective of the supers is going to be defeated as they are used for storing honey. This is done using a queen bee separator grid with spaced openings just big enough to permit the worker bees through and is positioned on the top of brood box, the first super is positioned on the top of queen bee separator grid. You simply need one separator grid and any additional super is positioned on the top of first super. On the top of last super there ought to be a ply wood cover by having an oval hole in the middle for ventilation and preventing the bees building honeycombs on the lid of the hive. The lid covers the complete hive over lapping the hive on all sides to protect the hive from rain and snow. The lid will have to be overlaid with a soft aluminium cover. In the snow fall areas the lid will require ventilation holes on opposite sides to prevent the condensation as a result of heat created by the honey bees clustering to keep warm.

The entire beehive is interconnected and each part includes a specific purpose, no parts should be left out from the hive. All in the hive includes a function and is used to simply help the bees make honey for the beekeeper. The above mentioned hive is created in such away that the bees won't only have no issue in doing what come naturally for them, making honey, but is likely to make the management of the hive so much easier for the beekeeper.