Building A Bee Nuc Box

By howland blackiston.

Building a bee nuc box.

By texas homesteader spring is an exciting time in beekeeping. Nuc boxes are perfect for making early or late splits transferring colonies or increasing your apiaries size easily if you have a hive with 3 or 4 frames with capped or started queen cells you can potentially have 3 or 4 nucs with very little effort double nucs are an excellent method for northern beekeepers to minimize their dependence on package bees. Select a wooded area that is fairly accessible. They are the only ones i know of building such a hive box.

The normal sized frames can be placed directly in a standard hive. The number of frames 3 or 5 also determines the size of the box. The hives grow by leaps and bounds this time of year too. Cut list for a five frame nuc hive.

How to build a quick 5 frame beehive nuc box. The bees are finally able to get out of the hive forage from the blooming plants. Bee boxes that hold these mini hives are really cute. Easy steps for building any beehive.

But due to the use of fewer frames they are only about half the width. Catching wild swarms of bees. Cut list for a five frame nuc hive. They are traditionally the same height as a standard langstroth deep box.

Yes clean your bee boxes pressure wash or run a torch over everything to burn any mites or beetles or moths. It s a good time to split the hives to keep them from becoming too crowded. Nuc box as a bait hive. The bee nuc box.

In this video i show you how to build a 5 frame nuc box using pocket holes. The video includes all of the required measurements you will need to build a nuc. How to build a 5 frame nuc beehive by city boy hens posted in honey bees tagged backyard beekeeping bee hive hive splitting honey bee nuc box swarm 1 comment building a nuc box is really no different from building the boxes for a standard langstroth hive. I would suggest getting a proper hive box from superior hives on facebook.