![]() ![]() One early June I took my 4 best hives to forest and others I kept in my yard with electrict heating. I found that when I give pollen patty and heat hives in spring, tyhey build up were 3 times faster than with natural way. I wnet to petty shop and bought different kinds of terrarium heaters to see, what happens. It was April and night temperatures were -8C and by day it was +2C. I took all my knowledge into use to rise upp my bee yard. I noticed that bees in better condition without snow which added too much moisture in hives. I wintered my hives under snow 20 years but when our snow cover become thinner, I had not snow to cover hives. I have used tar paper onec in the year 1965 may be? But I use winter covers in front of hive for snow and wind and birds. When we use polyhives, we need not any other insulations or tar papers. When I migrated my hives, light stryfoam hives were exelent to handle. Hive material forced to formulate bottom boards in another way because all condensation water went down to bottom. ![]() But boxes were good quality and they are still in fine condition. Boxes had made in Danmark (Nacca) and they were really expencive 20 years ago. They brought so much honey that they paid those expencive boxes in one summer. When I looked next summer, I found that all polyplast hives were bigger that my insulation board hives. I tried polyplast hives first in the year 1987. I had to make something to save my boxes for 20 hives. No more dead hives for lack of food.īut that insulation board kept moisture inside hive construction and boxes start to rotten veary fast. Years went and I add 10 mm water broof insulation board over wintering boxes and need of winter food dropped 30%. ![]() I made langstroth hives according USA blue prints. It was year 1963 when I started at the age of 15. My menthor said that hive type is out of date and I burned then after 2 years usage. I omitted from him the best methods what were in use in Finland in those days.įirst I made very good traditional, "long hive" insulated hives. He got for excample breeding queens from Canada. My menthor had worked in Canada and he have studied beekeeping systems of USA and Canada. I tell what I have learned during 45 years. It is difficult to discuss here because all kind of beeholding styles are soon in one intangible mesh. ![]()
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