Why have they done this?

[Curly green finger's]

Photo of a brood frame and it’s not the first time I’ve seen this in a brood frame, it looks like where the cells are made over the wire there is less brood been reared for what reason ?

 

[user 819]

I have seen it in the past and also get a similar scenario with foundationless frames when using kebab skewers for wax buidling support. Fishing line isn't such an issue as my lot tend to chew them away.

 

[enrico]

Maybe the metal gets too warm

 

[Garry R]

Maybe it just interferes with the cell architecture - like if you had a steel beam too low in your living room and had to duck underneath every time you crossed the room!!

 

[Erichalfbee]

No idea. Most of my brood frames have looked like this all the years I’ve been keeping bees. Never seen it over fishing line

 

[Michael Palmer]

This is an interesting theory on the question. I've seen this many times. After a few rounds of brood, the issue disappears.

 

[Swarm]

I agree, don't tend to see it in older frames.

 

[Beegarden]

This is an interesting theory on the question. I've seen this many times. After a few rounds of brood, the issue disappears.

Very interesting insights.

 

[Antipodes]

Quite a good photo of it here and he also suggests it goes with time.

https://theapiarist.org/spotty-brood-failing-queen/

 

[Paulypaul]

Photo of a brood frame and it’s not the first time I’ve seen this in a brood frame, it looks like where the cells are made over the wire there is less brood been reared for what reason ?

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All my frames look like this until they're well used.

 

[Murox]

Maybe the metal gets too warm

Or too cold

 

[mbc]

Or too cold

Yup, basically the wire acts as a heat sink and the queen (or the bees who prepare cells for the queento lay in) notice this.

 

[JamezF]

There are people who claim that it's not a problem with stainless wire, only the zinc-coated(?) steel stuff used in of the cheaper less expensive foundation. I have no idea if that's true or not.

James

 

[Antipodes]

There are people who claim that it's not a problem with stainless wire, only the zinc-coated(?) steel stuff used in of the cheaper less expensive foundation. I have no idea if that's true or not.

James

It's a different system here where you don't buy foundation with wire in it. I use stainless wire and wire my own frames, embedding the foundation into it, and I see it. I always thought it was to do with the wire tending to muck up the base of the cell so the queen avoids laying in it. I thought that after a while the workers eventually manage to smooth the base out enough.