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The construction of the hive for bees: how to make the right.

Every beekeeper knows that, that wild bees living in natural hives: hollow tree, under the roof.

But if you decide engage in beekeeping, you'll need to make a lot of effort, to arrange housing bees.

The device hive bee begins to collect useful information types of hives, materials, necessary to build, with exemplary drawings.

1. What are the types of hives?
2. What material is better to make a beehive?
3. What is the beehive
4. How does the hive: sizes and more details
5. How to build a beehive: instruction

What are the types of hives?

Before building a beehive, to understand, which design you want to get a result.

The point is, today naypraktychnishymy types are those:

1. Beehive horizontal. The beekeeper can expand it with additional setting buildings.
2. Вулик вертикальний – це 2-3-ярусна конструкція, on each floor which is close 10 framework. Extend the vertical structure can be achieved by adding new layers.

Also hives conventionally divided by type of framework, because it is beyond the basic element of all design.

Depending on the width and height they are square, or uzkovysokymy, vice versa, nyzkoshyrokymy.

Read: Drawing on the hive beds 20 framework.

What material is better to make a beehive?

Матеріал для вулика – це дуже важлива тема. Bees may just not like their house, and beekeeper will have to redo it.

Today, the market represented a huge amount of different materials, but not all are suitable for the hive.

Wood

Деревина – це безпрограшний варіант. Better to buy softwood, this pine, spruce, fir, Ideally lime.

Before working check, that no wood rot, mold. Note, tree that has one less, This humidity inside the hive.

For the installation of bee house to pick board 5 mm more, than required by design.

They are reduced in size at the time of grinding. Boards should carefully obstruhaty, that they remained chips, roughness, vypyrayuchyh chips.

Read: Drawing Multiple hive.

Plywood

Plywood is another excellent option. This environmentally friendly material, characterized durability.

Beekeepers say, plywood that its characteristics even superior to wood in terms of thermal insulation.

For the manufacture of plywood hive should cover the external walls with a layer of acrylic varnish, and inside the house to put polystyrene.

By the way, with the latter also make hives, characterized frailty and fragility.

Make a hive of plywood can only drawings, it will be best for comfortable life of insects.

Read: Drawing hive Dadana.

Polycarbonate

Полікарбонат – це твердий пластик, which can not affect climate. Different resistance, strength, does not suffer from rot, fungus, good clean.

Other materials

As a heater may be a polyurethane, which does not rot and is not covered by fungus, it does not bite mouse.

Its main disadvantage is the flammability, and, insulated polyurethane foam hive, Project the necessarily small ventilation system.

What is the beehive

Beehive consists of the following elements, bonded into a single structure:

• bottom (tree or grid) and ceiling, front, rear and side walls;
• piddashnyk, insulating cushion, wadding;
• strips and cover them, foil;
• gable roof and tying kryshkova;
• air hole;
• eye, prylitna board, the cluster frame;
• tray or pan waste;
• glass to observe the bees and board, closes window if necessary.

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How does the hive: sizes and more details

The correct calculation of the size is fundamental to creating the proper hive.

Beekeeper, who builds, must comply with high accuracy dimensions.

We present universal size for all hives, you can take as a basis:

• Відстань між суміжними рамками – 3,75 cm.
• Streets subject thickness WTO 25 см – 1,25 cm.
• During installation, the second building or store additional bars between the upper and lower bars is a gap 1 cm.
• The space between the front and rear walls and side straps should be 0,75 cm.
• Простір між нижньою планкою і дном – 2 cm.

Deviations from the dimensions allowed within 0,1 cm. With a large size have differences with other customized design elements, and the hive will not be composed of equal parts, you can later replace.

Read: Hives foam (polyurethane).

How to build a beehive: instruction

so, all elements are ready, and drawing drawn. It's time to collect the hive.

Start a collection to prepare four walls, processed and cut according to drawing.

One of the front walls connected to the two side, then the last fixed wall.

After that, the side frames are attached side panels hive, then mounted wooden floor or grid.

And on the front wall should cut letok.

The design whisk, establish and report on the floor with pillow holstykom, covering all cap.

Pillow and holstyk necessary to control the temperature regime.

The bottom of the hive better with galvanized material, it should be removable, making it easier transporting beehives.

A framework for making good pick, but resinous wood.

Do not forget Feeders for bees, which is often made from nomadic grids.

In winter, low temperature warms appliances hives capacity not exceeding 10 W.

Summarizing, that is to say, that self manufacture of beehives requires great attention and strict adherence drawings.

It must be remembered, that the hive has to be comfortable in all respects for insects: cool and neholodnym, without chemical odors, producing some synthetic materials, normal ventilation system.