How To Make Comb Honey Frames

Producing fresh honeycomb can be a viable part of honey.

How to make comb honey frames.

A century ago most honey was sold in the comb as cut comb or in wooden sections. Many beekeepers give an established colony 2 new frames each year and rotate out the oldest frames of comb. This involves taking new frames or foundations and inter splicing them in the hive between pre existing frames. For this reason we want our bees to make some new frames of comb occasionally.

With the tremendous interest in local and unprocessed food the hogg halfcomb system provides the perfect way to appeal to the public with a clean presentation which the bees prepare by building their combs directly in a clear styrene tray. The bees will have to make both new beeswax comb and fill it with honey before capping. If your bees are making comb but you would want them to make more a new frame even without a wax foundation can do the trick. Another reason for bees to make comb is for the honey harvest.

If you can make or have some kind of a small roof and the temperature allows it you can just put your frames under it for the winter. Using only very strong hives ensures that you will have full supers of honeycomb before the end of the season. If you ve noticed aaron gene is talking about making comb honey and indeed this is a great trick. Many beekeepers put nine frames in a ten frame box or seven in an eight frame box to get thicker comb.

This motivates bees to pull wax from the new foundation to make a hive. Those would make beautiful comb honey unobstructed by the wire that standard foundation has. By herman danenhower and jack rath. You can also keep your frames outside.

A queen excluder is usually placed above the brood boxes to keep the queen from laying eggs in the comb honey supers. People enjoy eating honeycomb too. Folks who like to keep their honey absolutely natural and don t care to extract honey or do creamed honey should love this.