some pics

[neillsayers]

Thought I'd share some pics of the hives I'm building with local roughsawn cedar.

[Perry]

Wowzers!
You're not actually going to put bees in those beauties are you? Too nice for that!
Why the screws in the center frame in the first pic, did you run out of nails?

[G3farms]

nice ones. I always wondered if the cedar would drive the bees out, but have found a couple of bee trees that were cedar so that answered that. When you do put your bees in them see if the SHB, wax moth and/or varroa counts are less than pine hives.

[apisbees]

The studies have been done on varroa and wax moth It makes no different. I don't know about SHB but I doubt as they do not feed on wood fiber. But are fed honey.

[apisbees]

Are these Warre hive supers\dimensions?

[G3farms]

Apis I was wondering about the aromatic cedar oils in the wood, like a cedar chest or closet to repel moths.

[apisbees]

If using cedar worked every body would be having their hives built out of it. I think the main problem is that in a chest it is closed and the fumes build up in the chest. In a hive the bees keep it to well ventilated for the fumes to build up.

[neillsayers]

Perry,
You don't miss much -I did indeed run out of nails.

Apis,

The hive bodies are warre. The nuc I installed about a week ago and the bees seem fine with it. I read a paper some time back from Oregan regarding a study to determine if juniper as a hive wood would affect varroa mite counts. The results were promising but no where near a silver bullet. Eastern Red Cedar is a juniper, so I thought I'd give it a try. Getting started on deeps tomorrow. Here is the link:

http://juniper.oregonstate.edu/royce.htm

[riverbee]

wow! very nice neill!

[Knucs]

Beeautiful, I love the look of cedar.

[BoilerJim]

These are beautiful. How are they holding up?

[neillsayers]

I have  a few in service right now and they are doing fine. Hope to use more as I make splits this spring.