What Happens When HONEY BEE Hives Make More PROPOLIS

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  @InsideTheHiveTV · 4 days ago · pinned

  The paper never measured what rough boxes cost, and the only price it gives is the plastic traps. If you've built or bought rough boxes, or you're thinking about it, what would you need to see before you'd switch some of your colonies: more propolis, fewer diseases, or no loss of honey? I read every reply, and it helps me decide which paper to check next.

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• JA

  @Jack-es9xq · 3 days ago

  If we're voting - no more AI generated thumbnails or anything else AI generated.

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  @JamesCrouchX · 4 days ago

  I had one colony that coated the entire OUTSIDE of the boxes as well. They sealed all the wood grain. I helped that the wood was "dipped" in beeswax. (I hand brushed hot wax with a heat gun to soak the wax in)

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  @lenturtle7954 · 15 hours ago

  It would be interestingto see  burnt inside boxes in this  study

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  @denodkgoro8124 · 4 days ago

  Bees are constantly changing their priorities. We cannot expect a colony to follow exactly the same cycle every year, because the conditions, pressures and internal state of the colony are never exactly the same.<br>This is something I have discussed in my APR concept – Adaptive Priority Redistribution. The basic idea is that a honey bee colony continuously redistributes its workforce, resources and behavioral priorities according to its current needs. Brood rearing, hygiene, foraging, thermoregulation, defense and other tasks do not always have the same priority.<br>Therefore, when we observe a particular behavior in one season but not in another, it does not necessarily mean that the genetic potential has disappeared. The colony may simply be expressing a different set of priorities under different conditions.<br>This is why I believe we should study the colony as a dynamic system rather than expect a fixed annual cycle. Genetics provides potential, but the state of the colony determines when, where and how strongly that potential is expressed.

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  @8ternalight · 2 days ago

  Excellent info. Very impressed with your way of looking for all the facts. Just what the bees and we bee keepers need . Thank you

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  @AfricanTeargas · 3 days ago

  They&apos;re filling in all of the gaps that pests can hide in. &nbsp;They create jails for beetles.

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  @lenturtle7954 · 12 hours ago (edited)

  Rough i side deep boxes 18 to 25 CAD &nbsp;unassembled <br>Same as good both sides

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  @JamesCrouchX · 4 days ago

  My bees are very sticky lol. &nbsp;They make a lot of propolis. &nbsp;One strain died out eventually though. They would make propolis columns from top box to bottom board. It was a weird semi-fluid gunk.

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  @TheRealCannabees · 4 days ago

  I run my boxes threw a dato blade set up on my tablesaw to leave groves in them i noticed a different 10 years ago and now I ruffup all new boxes and also use trap for proplis on top inside the hive

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• BU

  @busybeeteach · 3 days ago

  Is propolis biologically active? How long does its beneficial effects last? Should propolis be removed so honeybees have the option of refreshing the propolis envelope?

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  @wr450fsp1 · 4 days ago

  Thanks!