Bee Hive Part-3: The Hive Body

THE BEE HIVE CONTROVERSY:





There exist a Bee Hive controversy, if not a debate, either to use the Beehive Body or the Medium Beehive Body, as an effective beehive size for the honeybee.

There are several US authored article on the "Evil of the Deep Beehive Body" as against the "Medium Beehive Body.

Here in the Philippines, we have used and tested the Standard Deep Hive Body in our Bee Farm since 2004 when we started our Honey Production.We were able to understand the strength and weaknesses of the deep hive body.

The Deep Beehive body used by many beekeepers in the temperate zone, and also adapted by our Filipino Beekeeper, perhaps because it's the one commonly used abroad, looks like this...

This "deep" Bee Hive Body is presently used as by our

Bee Farm as brood nest for the Honeybees

The medium hive body is similar in size as the standard (deep) hive body except for the height, which is shorter than the standard hive used by many temperate, and also Filipino beekeeper.

This medium hive body is what we, at our

Bee Farm used during the summer of 2009.

We field-tested the Medium Hive body in year 2009. It was quite intriguing to see the immediate result of the medium hive body on our Bee Farm.

This is the honey frame we were hoping for,

just by using the medium hive body as honey-supper.

WHICH IS WHICH?

In the wild, our honeybees start building their honeycomb from the ceiling of their new hive and expands downward as more honeybees are reared in this brood chamber. The new honeycomb are plate-like is shape that takes the form of the available beehive chamber.

This is the way honey-combs are made by the honeybees.

The frame showed here is that of a comb honey frame to illustrate

how a honeycomb making 'naturally' progresses

Also, our honeybees also start to build adjacent honeycomb from left to right as the brood nest expands. The observable characteristic of italian honeybees is that they tend to build their honeycomb nest to form a ball or a sphere, imperfect as it may seems. The piculiar thing I noticed from our honeybees is that they build there nest so much so as to maintain a solid volume, hence the ball or spherical form of the beehive.

Adjacent honeycomb are built by the

honeybees from left to right

DECISION, DECISION DECISION.

So what, now that we know how our honeybees build their broodnest? How can this information help us decide on the outset which type of hive body shall we effectively use, on our new bee farm, to insure honey production?

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