I've never used them, but I agree 100% If you need comb especially for the Queen to lay up, it's a great alternative to the real thing. I remember my first couple years beekeeping, it was hard to come up with the comb needed. This would have been great to have.
@joejackson9214
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I’ve used them. Both deeps and mediums. When you don’t have drawn comb yet, they work perfectly
@KajunHomestead
Жыл бұрын
That's a great Idea for new beekeepers who buy package bees.
@paulschaefer5241
Жыл бұрын
The idea of this is good. There is just one thing I can see with it. For the price of one frame of better comb, I can buy a hive body.
@russk3931
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I agree, really helped me the first year or two. 2nd way I found them useful was in the honey super. If you throw a box of undrawn frames on top of the brood box they will ignore the undrawn frames. I put two BC frames in the middle and they filled the super right away. Even in the brood box 1 or 2 frames of BC with a bunch of undrawn frames works good. It's too expensive to fill up a box with them I think. Good video Tim.
@swohiobees
Жыл бұрын
Haven't tried the medium, frames, but when they fill the deep frames, they are heavy!
@lambbrookfarm4528
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I started beekeeping by catching an August 14th swarm here in NH. Not much happening in early August. I gave them Bettercomb[BC]. Next spring they were booming and I split them by mid May. Having no drawn comb, I gave the splits BC. They thrived. That was 2 seasons ago. I have had 3 deadouts this year and recently pulled frames and extracted the deadout frames which included 6 wired frames of BC, with a hand operated 3 frame SAF extractor, no problem. After 2 full seasons I have drawn comb so I will only use BC in splits to use up the remaining BC. BC has helped me get started.
@lunarrn
Жыл бұрын
Would you put bettercomb on every frame in a nuc prior to installing a package?
@swohiobees
Жыл бұрын
No, probably 20-30% of the frames. Just enough the queen has a place to lay, while the worker bees are busy building the comb on new frames. Better Bee has an online document on BetterComb placement.
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