Burr / Brace Comb

[RogueDrone]

Can someone simply explain the difference ?
I just cannot grasp it.

Colin

 

[victor meldrew]

One and the same broadly speaking. Brace comb is produced by bees to reinforce/ stabilise comb, burr comb is produced to fill any void greater than a bee space , if we insist on a difference
VM


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[Swarm]

And then there's ladder comb.

 

[itma]

And wild comb ...

 

[Luminos]

And Ilfracombe

 

[enrico]

And catacombe

 

[Myfamily&otheranimals]

Can someone simply explain the difference ?
I just cannot grasp it.

Colin

I'm pleased to see you are studying RogueDrone. I was just looking for the answer to that question myself. Thanks all.

 

[REDWOOD]

I'm pleased to see you are studying RogueDrone. I was just looking for the answer to that question myself. Thanks all.

Your Welcomb

 

[Ely]

Nitcomb?

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[REDWOOD]

combustible

 

[Ely]

E.T. phone comb

 

[VEG]

oh comb on you lot lol

 

[victor meldrew]

I think it time for me to nip down to my local take away for a curry comb!
VM


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[Little John]

One and the same broadly speaking. Brace comb is produced by bees to reinforce/ stabilise comb, burr comb is produced to fill any void greater than a bee space , if we insist on a difference
VM

I think there is a difference, if only in the underlying cause.

Brace implies intentional support, which is what the bees do when 'gluing' bits of a hive together in an attempt to re-create their natural comb structure.

A 'Burr' - certainly in engineering terminology - implies a raised area above a 'land', or flat area. The sort of thing which is produced when you drill a hole in steel plate ...

Hence - Burr Comb is produced on the face of framed comb, as the result of the inter-comb spacing being too wide - such as in this particularly fine example:

Different underlying causes entirely. But some folks lump 'em together - never understood why.

LJ

 

[MuswellMetro]

I think there is a difference, if only in the underlying cause.

Brace implies intentional support, which is what the bees do when 'gluing' bits of a hive together in an attempt to re-create their natural comb structure.

A 'Burr' - certainly in engineering terminology - implies a raised area above a 'land', or flat area. The sort of thing which is produced when you drill a hole in steel plate ...

Hence - Burr Comb is produced on the face of framed comb, as the result of the inter-comb spacing being too wide - such as in this particularly fine example:

Different underlying causes entirely. But some folks lump 'em together - never understood why.

LJ

i was told never to rremove bur comb on top bars as it is either there as a ladder through the QE /beespace or to hold water in the upward facing cups to air condition the hive

 

[Dishmop]

cwm by ya

 

[Luminos]

A comb-over, usually for bald brood

 

[Finman]

LJ

Too much gap between wall and the frame.

Bees need space too to drone brood. They are mad to make it. They even brake foundation to get drone brood.

A free space in lower part of foundation allowes them make true their desire.


If you put 9 foundations in a 10 frame box, bees start to make extra combs.

.

 

[victor meldrew]

A friend of mine won't remove burr comb/brace comb on the premiss that foraging is lost whilst the bees replace it

VM


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[Finman]

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I remove the bur because bees will be crushed ir there is no gap in bee space.

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It is very usual that when the honey box is full and capped, bees make more or less burr there. It is their style. It is not end of the world.