Welcome, Guest

Author Topic: Newbee from the Philippines  (Read 1909 times)

Offline raymundo

  • Brood
  • Posts: 1
Newbee from the Philippines
« on: April 04, 2010, 09:40:39 am »
Hello to all.

Am a newbee and still in the process of constructing my Langstroth hives. It is mandatory that we follow the bee space of 3/8"?  I might be building something that has an effect on the colonies in the future.

Thanks very much.

Offline Highlandsfreedom

  • House Bee
  • **
  • Posts: 450
  • Gender: Male
    • Organic gardening and Bee Services.
Re: Newbee from the Philippines
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2010, 12:43:44 pm »
I have never built a hive before but I think if its more than 3/8" then you will get too much burr comb I THINK  but others will steer you right.  Welcome to the group and enjoy your new hobby..... where ever it takes you.
To bee or not to bee that is the question I wake up to answer that every morning...

Offline Cindi

  • Galactic Bee
  • ******
  • Posts: 9825
  • Gender: Female
Re: Newbee from the Philippines
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2010, 11:22:47 am »
Ray, welcome to our forum, but come back, only one post?  Surely you must have questions, that bee space is important, otherwise as said, the bees will fill up the extra space with burr comb. Wonderful that you are building your own stuff, stick around, we love new members.  Have that beautiful and most awesome of days, with health of the same wishes.  Cindi
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.  The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold.  The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee.  Robert Service

Offline fermentedhiker

  • Field Bee
  • ***
  • Posts: 514
  • Gender: Male
Re: Newbee from the Philippines
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2010, 02:07:45 pm »
Welcome to the forum.

If I remember correctly bee space can vary from 1/4" on the small end to a max of 3/8".  Since your in the Phillipines and could be keeping either I'm assuming you're keeping European Honeybees(apis mellifera) and not Asian which being smaller bees would have a correspondingly smaller bee space.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
--Douglas Adams

 

anything