Amron
Well-Known Member
Great explanation. Thank youNot really a chop shop, more like a DIY place, BUT there are lots of pieces involved in a simple honey bee hive. Kelley, and most bee hive stores, provide all the things. Each bee hive kind of has two or three large brooder boxes (called supers), this is where the queen hangs out and lays her eggs. Above these a keeper usually places a screen called a “queen excluder” that keeps the queen down in the brooder boxes, up above are the honey boxes. Each super has 10 frames. As the hive grows in size, you keep adding the honey supers on top. The trick is to keep them slowly building & storing honey. They keep storing honey for Winter, they don’t know u are going to rob them. Another trick is to make sure you leave enough honey in the hive for bees to eat all Winter long. Not enough & they starve.
It’s a fun hobby - but costs add up & often you don’t get honey, for many reasons.