Foundationless Frame Results
I'm starting to get a handle
on foundationless bee
frames. I've tried three methods, a good one, a mediocre one,
and a bad one.
The mediocre one was the one I started with, which you can see to the
right. I cut each sheet of foundation into five pieces,
sandwiched one foundation piece between the wooden strip and the rest
of the frame, and nailed the wooden strip into place with vertical
nails. The bees built down from the foundation piece just fine,
but the foundation tended to slip loose before they started building on
it. I had to reattach about a third of the foundation pieces in
the first week, after which all was well.
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about my experiments with foundationless honeybee frames....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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