cstroud
New Bee
Hi,
I am making some nucs with ply for the summer, and have got a bit confused over 'bee space'.My existing full sized hives have bee space at the top above the frames and also plenty of space underneath the frames? The plans I am using from the internet (which have been referred to on this forum I believe), leave very little space below the frames (around 5mm)- is this because the plans have a round entrance in the front face (they don't need so much space under the frames?)
The nuc I have is the same with around 15mm underneath. My beekeeping book by ted hooper says that bee space should be at one end only, I guess the bees tend to make some drone cells if they have space underneath the frames? i'm not too bothered about that though
what do you think?
I am making some nucs with ply for the summer, and have got a bit confused over 'bee space'.My existing full sized hives have bee space at the top above the frames and also plenty of space underneath the frames? The plans I am using from the internet (which have been referred to on this forum I believe), leave very little space below the frames (around 5mm)- is this because the plans have a round entrance in the front face (they don't need so much space under the frames?)
The nuc I have is the same with around 15mm underneath. My beekeeping book by ted hooper says that bee space should be at one end only, I guess the bees tend to make some drone cells if they have space underneath the frames? i'm not too bothered about that though
what do you think?