Queen bee excluders are wire-mesh frames inserted between the brood chamber and honey chamber of a beehive. The openings in this wire frame must be the right size—no larger than 0.163 inch wide—so that workers can fit through but the queen and drones, which are larger, cannot. Worker be...
Bees are an essential and indispensable part of the ecosystem; however, that does not mean you have to share your house with them. A beehive inside the property can be very inconvenient and pose serious threats to the inhabitants of the house. Identify the species before you begin the bee c...
Instead of creating walls of solid wood, they used their sparse trees more sparingly for the walls' structure and completed the walls with infill made of a plasterlike material. Those who sailed from the British Isles and landed in New England built timber frame homes. Today, we still ...
To put your box together, you’ll need to layer all of the parts on top of your stand. The bottom board goes first, followed by the slatted frame (if you have one), then the deep super(s), queen excluder, honey super(s), and the cover. The hive stand can keep the beehive up...