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) This is 33mm thick x 100mm wide Hoop Pine which is…
Because a lot of box designs use the same outside measurements of 200mm x 280mm and then use different thicknesses of wood, it changes the internal volume. If you’re using thicker than 35mm you should probably increase the outside dimensions to try keep the volume of each frame above…
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 negatives with each system so i can’t see one way…
Original Australian Trigona Hive – OATH Here are some basic construction plans for the popular OATH design. This includes the Honey Super top section. You could make it without that section if you aren’t interested in collecting the honey that way. Of course there’s different designs, shapes and sizes, and…
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