This will slow down the growth of the hive because bees will slow down their production and honey. They will need to maintain the CO2 volume they need and the right temperature in the hive as well. If you provide them with a lot of space, they will work harder. The beehive condition factorĪnother important thing is the condition inside the beehive. If the Queen cannot keep up, we should not add one brood box more.
We also need to consider the condition of the Queen in the original box. When making a decision for adding one brood box more, we should not look only whether the bees are outgrowing the space. If we talk about an average Queen, we can say that she is able to keep up with only one brood box. The observation of the QueenĪn essential thing to do when deciding on the number of brood boxes is to observe the Queen. When the summer is coming to an end, because of the slowing of bees’ production, you should pull out this second brood box. If you are thinking that there is a need for an additional brood box, you should add it before the summer begins. In these colder temperatures, the Queen is going to be really busy during spring and you need to watch carefully the single brood box and supers. The lower temperatures are a signal for the bees to start their transition to efficiency mode. On the other hand, if you live in a colder climate, you will notice that the bees’ productivity will decrease in the late summer and autumn. Therefore, the bees’ productivity will not be slowed down and you will have a different strategy than beekeepers that live in different climates. If you live in a climate close to the equator, your temperature fluctuations might not change a lot between seasons. The climate factorīees’ productivity is under the influence of the climate. Approximately at the point of 5-6 supers, and with the bee colony constantly growing, we can add another brood box on top and more supers on top of that. When we notice that the bees are crowded and are running out of space, we can add one or two more supers.
For example, we can start with one box and a couple of supers and see what will happen. After this, we can once again distribute one or two brood boxes to each of the hives.Ī very important thing to take account for is that we do not need to establish the number of brood boxes at the beginning and keep it fixed. If the reason for adding more than two brood boxes is a large hive, it is better to split them. Adding too many brood boxes will not implicitly mean that we are doing our bees a favor. A general rule is that we need to use one or two brood boxes.
Now that we know the importance of the brood boxes, we can discuss how many of them we need. The worker honey bees will leave the beehive in search of a new home with a Queen that will function well. Accordingly, the need for worker honey bees to stay in the beehive will not be present, and there would not be any worker bees. If there is not a brood box, that would mean that there is no Queen and therefore there are no eggs. We can easily say, that one of the main and crucial factors for a successful beehive is the brood box. It is isolated from the supers with a screen. It is usually placed at the bottom of the stack. The single-level box that contains the Queen bee and all of its eggs is called a brood box. If we place all of our supers early, it would cost us more than it would bring benefits. This is often a misunderstanding that new beekeepers have.
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However, beginner beekeepers should be aware that placing additional supers does not mean more honey. Their purpose is to give extra space for the worker bees to store honey. The additional boxes above the brood box are the supers. There is always the question of how many brood boxes to use, when and how many of the supers to use, etc? Supers and brood boxes are the major part of a beehive. But, we should not use everything right from the start. In the beginning, we are very often enthusiastic and we acquire all of the equipment that we need. However, most of the beginner beekeepers are sometimes discouraged by the whole equipment and everything that goes with beekeeping. Beekeeping is very pleasant, interesting and fun to have as a craft or a hobby.
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