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Bees and Bee Comb Photos

Here are some photos of new comb that bees made in my Top Bar Hive. The hive is not even one month old and bees already made comb on 7 bars and queen is happy and laying.

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My Top Bar Hive

Here are some photos of my Top Bar Hive. This is my first woodworking, carpenter work but still I think hive is built to be strong and good looking ;) Bees are in from 27th June, 07 and I am still working out how to make some proper cover for beehive. Well I guess there is still time till winter comes.

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All Types of Beehives

Traditional Beehives – These types of hives for the bees are provided in a straightforward manner, it is just merely an enclosure for the bees without internal structure whatsoever. The bees will start constructing with themselves in the space provided for them their comb. In this fixture, removing the comb means destroying it because it is attached in a fixed-frame manner to the enclosure. Harvesting can be done by destroying the hive, whereas in the modern beehive, removable structures and frames are provided for easy harvesting. In some traditional innovations, baskets are placed on top of the hive for the bees to fill it with honey, and eventually being replaced by boxes of different sizes. In harvesting by traditional means, hives were extracted by crushing and compressing the honeycomb, but this kind of method produces more beeswax than honey.

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