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Preparing frames for the new season

4/25/2018

 
The Junior Certificate bee team had a visitor to school today, Dr Piggott, our bee inspector kindly came in to help make up some new brood frames ready for the new season.  The frames are where the bees make their wax cells to store their honey and also for the Queen to lay eggs in, and for the brood to pupate and change into new bees. 
Making frames is a tricky business!  We use Hoffman frames which are self spacing, which means when they are pushed together, the bees have enough room to work on the comb, 'back to back' This essential gap is called the 'bee space' and without it, there would be lots of problems not only for the bees, but for us as beekeepers!   The children managed really well, each completing a frame without bashing fingers with the hammers! 
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