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Basic Pine Oath

This article demonstrates a very simple design of a Stingless Bee Box – Pine OATH. Standard OATH dimensions are 280mm long by 200mm wide. This design is based on these OATH Construction Plans (OATH – Original Australian Trigona Hive) *Please

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OATH Internal Volume

A lot of box designs use the same outside measurements of 200mm x 280mm and then use different thicknesses of wood, so it changes the internal volume. If you’re using thicker than 35mm you should probably increase the outside dimensions

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Splitting Plates and Bars

There’s a lot of theories and personal opinion around Stingless Bee Box designs, here I give some thoughts on Splitting Bars and a Plates. Some people prefer the full dividing plates but i’m undecided because i think there’s positives and

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OATH Construction Plans

Native Stingless Bee Box – Original Australian Trigona Hive – OATH Updated: 26 July 2020 Note: Before you make a Native Bee Box read this article – New To Native Bees? Important – These plans are intended for people that

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