Building A Bee Nuc Box

The hives grow by leaps and bounds this time of year too.

Building a bee nuc box.

Yes clean your bee boxes pressure wash or run a torch over everything to burn any mites or beetles or moths. Bee boxes that hold these mini hives are really cute. Cut list for a five frame nuc hive. The normal sized frames can be placed directly in a standard hive.

The bee nuc box. How to build a quick 5 frame beehive nuc box. In this video i show you how to build a 5 frame nuc box using pocket holes. 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.

They are traditionally the same height as a standard langstroth deep box. Nuc box as a bait hive. 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. They are the only ones i know of building such a hive box.

The following tables break down the five frame nuc hive into its individual components and provide instructions on how to cut and build those components. By texas homesteader spring is an exciting time in beekeeping. If you are looking to expand your number of bee hives by attracting wild bees a nuc box is one of the best tools you can use. Cut list for a five frame nuc hive.

The video includes all of the required measurements you will need to build a nuc. Easy steps for building any beehive. I would suggest getting a proper hive box from superior hives on facebook. By howland blackiston.

Put a piece of old comb in the box with a few frames and hang it about 10 feet off the ground. Catching wild swarms of bees. Select a wooded area that is fairly accessible. The bees are finally able to get out of the hive forage from the blooming plants.