Beekeeping: Parts of a Beehive Box

Video Transcript

"Probably the basics of a beehive would be the hive body, which is simply a wooden box nailed together and painted. It holds ten frames and these actually, we call them honeycombs, once the bees draw the wax out where it becomes a comb. But I just want to show you initially we start with this wax foundation. It has the imprint of the cell there. The bees could make their own honeycombs just fine, but in order for us to work with the bees, we want them to be in a movable frame. So we start them out in the frame, the bees draw out the wax real nice, and you'll see that in a bee hive a little bit later. Ten of those go in a box in with the bees. And then later, when you start putting on subers, put a box here. And these were honeycombs, you see the wax is already there. This honeycomb has actually had honey in it before. You can see where we cut the wax capping off. We spun the honey out. It's empty, now we put it back on the bees again. And, depending on how strong the colony is, you'll stack those up. Sometimes you'll get, a big hive will have six or eight of these boxes on top, if they're really strong and have a lot of bees in them."