Charring of hives

[Olivia9801]

I've seen a few articles on this lately and was wondering if there are quite a lot of beekeepers who charr their wooden hives as an alternative wood preserver?

Would like to know.

 

[Amari]

I've never heard of charring as a method of wood preservation. Some beeks play a blow torch around the inside of their empty brood boxes to hopefully kill pathogens but others say there's no point doing this.

 

[Penninetrader]

Japanese carpenters have used the method for centuries

 

[oxnatbees]

Japanese carpenters have used the method for centuries

It's meant to be a little tricky - you can easily wreck a hive by over-torching the outer surface to weatherproof it, so practise on other wood first. Remember not all woods are the same...

I read in an Australian book - so not sure how applicable it is here - that bees don't hang comb from charred surfaces, so some beekeepers char the inside of their roof.