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04-20-2012, 07:00 AM | #1 |
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Hive Material Question
I can't handle bee keeping myself but it has always interested me. After reading about hives I came up with a question nobody else seems to have.
All of the hives I've seen advertised seem to be made of wood. Wood rots, draws mildew and fungus and is hard to clean or maintain if a hive goes dead. Is there a reason hives can't be made from some injection molded material? Lumber prices keep going up and I'd think the payback from having hives with a longer usable life would be a benefit. Of course that's from a person who doesn't know squat about the whole process. |
04-20-2012, 03:59 PM | #2 |
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Caneman, I have a Hive setting in my Garden that I put there two years ago. It is made from a hard Styrofoam. The Bees are doing great in it, and it is warmer in winter, and cooler in summer than wood. I got two hives, and one lost the Queen, and was weak before I discovered it. It had wax moths in it, and they ate holes through the Styrofoam, but the strong hive looks just like the day I first put the Bees in it.
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