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Placing the falseback (divider board) in the middle of the hive when installing the bees, helps the bees set their brood nest towards the front of the top bar hive.
You'll see in this video, falseback (divider board) was not put in when the bees were installed
into the hive. So the bees started building the comb in the middle of the hive.
The steps to placing the falseback when installing bees are:
1) Place the falseback about 2/3 from the front of the hive
2) Install the bees
3) Wait until they draw out about 6 combs
4) Remove the falseback, and move it to the back of the hive
5) This sets the bees up to have their brood comb near the front of the hive
The first few combs they draw out will be quickly filled with honey and pollen.
Then they draw out comb to put the larvae (brood) in. It is best that the brood
comb is near the front of the hive.
Brood comb being pulled from the hive
Brood comb, partially filled.
The brood cells are protruded slightly and
look like an eraser on the end of a pencil
Closeup of brood comb
Honeycomb, top of picture is capped honeycomb, bottom of picture is uncapeed honeycomb cells
Closeup of capped honeycomb, except a few open cells at the top of the picture |