Langstroth/Warré Hybrid Hive
Standard 8-frame Langstroth equipment can be modified to include several features of the Warré Hive. The hive can be managed as a standard Langstroth Hive, a Warré Hive or a compromise of the two methods as desired.
FEATURES
Floor: flat
Entrance: 45° alighting ledge, 19 x 295 mm entrance (full width) with 15 x 120 x 89 mm entrance throat insert
Hive-Body Box: standard 8-frame Langstroth deep
Comb Support: standard Langstroth frames, froundationless frames or topbars
Comb Spacing: variable on-center spacing, from 32 mm in the broodnests and 38 mm in the honey storage areas
Comb Height: standard Langstroth deep, medium, or shallow frame
Quilt Box: standard Langstroth shallow, containing natural insulating material retained with thin solid wooden bottom insert with two screened 89 mm openings
Roof: flat, migratory style with ventilated front and rear eaves
Management: supered or nadired
Wintering: minimum two deep boxes of fully drawn comb
Harvest: extracted honey, cut comb or drained pressed comb honey
HIVE PHOTOS
The ventilated eave openings in the extended top are covered with #8 mesh screen and allow ventilation across the top of the quilt box. The migratory style cover allows the hive to be wintered with its sides flat against other hives.
The quilt box, an inverted standard shallow Langstroth box, is shown filled with pine shavings and functions as a standard Warré quilt box.
The screened holes in the quilt box bottom board allows the colony to control ventilation at the top of the hive year round.
The 45° alighting ledge sheds rain and snow.
The entrance throat helps to protect the front of combs from intruders and weather.
The entrance can be reduced to the same area as the Warré hive or open to the full width and height as the Langstroth Hive as desired.
Standard frames, foundationless frames or topbars can be used as desired.
