The Basic Components of the Honey Bee Hive
The honey bee hive consists of several boxes that are named after their colony use versus simply the size.
The most common naming convention among beginning beekeepers is simply a brood box and a super. The brood box is the box where the queen lays her eggs (the “brood”) and the super box is where the remaining worker bees place the honey stores. So, you may also hear them called honey supers.
The more experience beekeepers tend to use the size and function in their names, so you may a “deep box” or “deep brood box”, which refers to the box as before where the queen lays her eggs.
Super boxes for the Langstroth hive come in 3 sizes:
- shallow ask known as
- medium also known as an Illinois Super
- or the no longer commonly use Wisconsin Super
Then we have top and bottom boards that also come in different variations:
Top boards with inner and outer covers, used mostly up north and Migratory Top boards more commonly used in Florida since we don’t have a huge temperature differential that causes condensation inside the hive.
Bottom boards can be solid or screened. The screened bottom board is known to be used in the control of the varroa destructor mite.
Then we have frames and sometimes we have foundation.
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Our heritage breed chickens and turkeys are pasture-raised and fed organic feed to supplement their health and wellbeing. The flock consists of Rhode Island Red hens that lay brown eggs and Americauna hens that lay blue and green eggs as well as Royal Palm Turkeys and Bourbon Red Turkeys.
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- We do not candle or grade eggs for size nor sort by color.
- Eggs are available for delivery from farmer to consumer only.
- Due to Fl regulations as a small flock producer, we cannot deliver to bakeries, restaurants or health food stores at this time. Our service is strictly from farm to consumer.
Quantity: 6 eggs of varying size/color
Discount available for recycling egg cartons: max 25 cents per 6 eggs (does not have to be our carton)
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