Comments on: Hive Frames and Foundation

By: Louis

Louis — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 01:21:16 +0000

I need the cost of wooden frame with wax foundation.
100 pcs

By: Marina G.

Marina G. — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 01:40:33 +0000

Thank you
I’m Just starting. This was a Great article for me to read.

By: song

song — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 10:49:58 +0000

hi
I want to make my own beehive as you said, but you didn’t say the dimensions of the frame in the hive. Can you also provide information on how to create a frame please?

By: Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:42:54 +0000

In reply to Lee Brown. Hello Lee, We dont actually sell hives. We suggest looking to a search engine to help you find a bee supplier.

By: Lee Brown

Lee Brown — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:11:27 +0000

I need wood frames and plastic coated foundation 50 med and 50 deep
Can I get and a price

By: jim pugh

jim pugh — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:09:59 +0000

we had a few days of 40 to 46 degree days some of my wax honey foundation just about ready to extract melted and the honey ran out of the hive entrance so I have decided that plastic foundation is the way to go. any one else had this problem I live north of Adelaide South Australia.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:27:46 +0000

New to plastic frames, and not sure if this is for me or not. Is it OK to mix a few plastic frames with my other frames (wax) to have something to compare them with. I plan on coating the plastic with my saved wax.

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By: DK

DK — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:34:56 +0000

In reply to Debbie B..

Totally agree on a more natural approach. If you do use plastic foundation, perhaps putting them outside would dissipate some of the gases that are found in plastic. I don’t know how long ago the foundations may have been made. I personally like the natural way of giving the bees just a wooden frame and let them build themselves. Of course, the issue with evenness and the comb touching all sides can be trying…but I know that they built it and know the source of the wax…etc. If I would go plastic foundation…it would be in the form of a bare sheet….plastic, uncoated foundation but a side of me says how was the plastic made…bpa free?…etc.

By: Debbie B.

Debbie B. — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 21:31:27 +0000

I watched a seminar on raising bees Untreated & naturally, a few weeks ago( no suit, no stinging!),and learned that plastic off-gases and isn’t all that good for bees, and forces bees to an un-natural larger size; a setup for less healthier, more stressed bee. The presenter mentioned that bees try to keep the queen’s scent solely within the hive, that more opening, smoking the hive, disrupt the process of keeping the queen’s scent, and that the plastic does not help with its’ off-gassing. Wonder how long it would take to ‘age’ a plastic hive?
I don’t think I’d go plastic, after watching & learning, from that seminar.