I took all our beehive equipment into my office today and my colleague Ste and I spent the day building, building, building, then painting, painting, painting.
We built four brood boxes (hold the queen and brood) and five supers (hold the stored honey). The boxes come flat-packed and have to be glued then nailed together. You need slightly better woodworking skills than to make an Ikea wardrobe, but it’s not exactly rocket science.
Once built we painted the hives in two contrasting colours using Cuprinol Garden Shades paint. This is not harmful to the bees as long as it is only on the outside of the hive.
We have a third (spare) hive to paint yet. We also have to make a lot of honeycomb frames. We need 94 of these in all. I’ve only made 11 so far! Once we have the brood frames made we’ll be ready to take delivery of our bees.
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