Frankenhive
The Frankenhive can contain up to three separate colonies. Each colony can be managed separately as a simple horizontal top-bar hive, nadired with occupied Warré hive boxes or supered with empty Warré hive boxes. The Frankenhive can be used for activities such as feeding or splitting a nucleus and raising queens.
FEATURES
Floor: flat, 38 mm thick
Entrance: multiple side and end entrances, each a combination of 19 mm diameter entrance holes, #9 tapered natural cork plugs
Hive-Body Box: variable shape and size, maximum W 28 x H 35 x L 99 cm internal dimensions, adjustable follower boards, 38 mm thick exterior walls
Comb Support: removable top-bars with 9 mm bee space
Comb Spacing: variable on-center spacing, 32 mm in the broodnests and 38 mm in the honey storage areas
Comb Height: uninterrupted to 35 cm in main box
Cover: coarse cloth on top-bars, wood edged quilt boxes containing natural insulating material retained with coarse cloth
Roof: gabled roof with ventilated cavity
Management: horizontal, nadired and/or supered, "Nestduftwärmebindung" retained within the hive
Wintering: flexible
Harvest: raw, cut comb and drained pressed comb
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HIVE PHOTOS
HIVE VIDEOS
FRANKENHIVE BEES
17 April 2010
A 3 lb package of bees seven days after it was placed in the Frankenhive.
6 June 2010
After eight weeks the bees are drawing thier thirteenth bar of comb.
At twelve weeks the bees are storing honey in a Langstroth 8-frame super with foundationless frames.
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