Langstroth Hive, Your Vital Beekeeping Supplies
Are you serious to expand your beekeeping business? Then,
managing an apiary for honey beekeeping is a strategy that is worth to be
considered. Building an apiary of your own is quite simple, as I once told you.
You can just rent a piece of land that is near to nectar sources to ease your
bees to collect nectar.
Other things to consider and to attend to are the
temperature of your apiary location where you should consider a place with a
maximum temperature that isn’t too hot. Security of your hives as well as the
safety of passing people should be taken care. And to avoid the bees leaving
the hive, avoid windy places.
Now, let us talk about a beekeeper supply which is most
vital to your apiary honey business. The
bee hive. This is the housing of your little creatures, which are going to
work for you to collect nectar and transform it into honey. And talking about
bee hives, the name of Langstroth should be taken into consideration.
Lorenzo Lorraine
Langstroth, a
Reverend from Philadelphia
The main advantage is that bees are encouraged to build
their honeycombs into movable frames. The design of the frame is such so that
the bees are not able to attach wax between frames or to the hive wall. Bees
are also disabled to use propolis to cement the frames to the box sides. This
movable frames makes it easier for the beekeeper to perform his delicate task,
which was impossible in the past time.
The typical Langstroth hive is constructed in such way so
that the frames are separated from the surrounding parts of the hive. This
includes all walls, the floor, the cover of the hive and other frames. The
frames are the spots where the bees build their comb. The Langstroth design has
set an exact separation gap of 3/8 inch or 6.35 mm.
Removing a frame from a hive will be much easier since the
beekeeper does not need to cut any combs which were the problem in the earlier
hive design. Formerly, the beekeeper had to cut the adhered frames to the
adjacent structures which were cemented by the bees using propolis. Removing
the honeycombs easily provides practicality to a beekeeper to manage multiple
hives on a regular basis in a very safe way.
The standard Langstroth hive includes (from top to
bottom):
- A
telescoping cover
- Inner
cover
- One
or more supers or hive bodies
- Queen
excluder (optional)
- 8
– 10 frames of various sizes this include a cell foundation
- Brood
box
- Bottom
board
- Hive
stand
Setting up an apiary with multiple hives is quite an easy
task, since there are plenty of beekeeping kits available which include the
beehives. You just decide how you are going to expand your business. You can
judge this using your past experience of beekeeping. Good luck and great
success!
