bjosephd
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2014
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- Location
- North Somerset
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 3
I hear it often said that bees far 'prefer' large unbroken expanses of comb. The larger the better.
Is this logical anecdote? Generally agreed 'fact'? Or nonsense?
I'm just pondering various ideas ie using deep dadant frames if I make a 'long' hive. Or using many (shallow?) supers if I were to use a more manageable/liftable size for a one size box approach.
I'm guessing one mimics nature better but is harder to manipulate and manage.
But then I've also seen cut outs on the internet in very narrow roof spaces where the bees have happily built many many very shallow combs horizontally, but then of course they don't need to strictly 'jump a gap' so to speak since they are horizontal not vertical.
Is this logical anecdote? Generally agreed 'fact'? Or nonsense?
I'm just pondering various ideas ie using deep dadant frames if I make a 'long' hive. Or using many (shallow?) supers if I were to use a more manageable/liftable size for a one size box approach.
I'm guessing one mimics nature better but is harder to manipulate and manage.
But then I've also seen cut outs on the internet in very narrow roof spaces where the bees have happily built many many very shallow combs horizontally, but then of course they don't need to strictly 'jump a gap' so to speak since they are horizontal not vertical.