What is the best size for grid box beekeeping?

What are the best dimensions for lattice box beekeeping?

Currently, the popular lattice box on the market is 25x25x10 in length, width and height per layer, a **** 5 layers, total height 50 cm. However, it is best to determine the size according to the place, for example, north of the Yangtze River is recommended to be 30 centimeters in length and width of the inner space, south of the Yangtze River is recommended to be 25 centimeters in length and width of the inner space. If it is a strong group, it can be increased to 35 centimeters of inner space.

The advantages and disadvantages of lattice beehives

The lattice box is evolved from the old drum box, divided into several sections of drums one side of the barrel, the inner hollow has a large and small, but also imitation of the original hive of the honeybee box.

Advantages:

1. It is the first choice for lazy people and newbies to keep bees, which is not easy to raise dead and run, such as feeding sugar, replacing the king, and spelling, and strong to make up for the weak and so on do not have to care about it, and even do not need to clean up the waxy crumbs, because the bees in the hive will clean up by themselves.

2. Harvesting honey is to cut the spleen to get honey, which is more in line with the habit of Chinese bees that like new spleen and hate old spleen.

3. Easy to reproduce.

Disadvantages:

1, small space, it is not convenient to see the inside of the box, it is inconvenient to check the king and catch the king, it is inconvenient to split the bees, and it will be stuffy.

2, the standard frame, the grid box, but 5 frames of standard frame bee volume, can only be said to be a medium swarm potential; production, box 30 pounds is considered high-yield.

3, raising Chinese bees, it is easy to burst the box, every time will burst away a large number of disobedient small bees.

What do I need to pay attention to when keeping bees in lattice boxes?

1, according to the size of the colony, gradually from the bottom to add box circle, expand the hive. During the production period, add lattice box circles on the top during the large honey flow period, and add lattice box circles on the bottom during the small honey flow period, and take honey at the right time.

2, swarm wintering, need to retain the upper 1~2 honey boxes according to the size of the swarm, remove the lower box circle, with a woven bag from the top set of the lower, wrapped in the hive body 2~6 layers, tied with a small rope, narrowing the hive door, is conducive to heat preservation and prevention of rodents.

3, lattice box honey is the uppermost frame end off, and even cut down with the powder, resulting in lattice box left to the swarm of the remaining amount of honey is insufficient, affecting the subsequent development of the swarm and the development of the swarm, so you need to support the large nectar source supplementation.

4. The lattice box is much faster than the live frame, so it needs a big honey source to support it, otherwise it will not be able to store much honey.

5, Chinese bees can cut off part of the old spleen to prevent hive bugs.

Finally, it is better to keep Chinese bees with a combination of live frames and grids to make up for the shortcomings, and use live frames for queen rearing and grids for egg colony honey.