[Snookie]

Hello

How or should I be concerned about cleaning my solid bottom board hive board?

I have two hives one with a solid bottom board and one with an IPK screened bottom board with a removable tray which makes cleaning easy.

Just wondering if I need to address cleaning the solid bottom bottom board?

As always, thank you for your advice:}

 

[beedeetee]

I always remove the brood boxes and scrape the bottom board clean each year. I do it to both the solid and screened boards (and screened bottom board slide).

 

[I'llbeedan]

I do a thorough cleaning when I reverse brood chambers in the spring, any tile I do a thorough hive check I set the brood box on the cover and sweep it off with my bee brush. after I look it over for SHB larva and such.

 

[merince]

I scrape my bottom boards clean when I reverse the boxes in the Spring.

 

[Snookie]

Thanks so much for your comments almost 30 days at attempting to keep bee's just trying to learn as much as I can:}

Peace Bee with U all!

 

[Michael Bush]

>How or should I be concerned about cleaning my solid bottom board hive board?

When you happen to be in the hive and down to the last box... then I'd set it off and scrape off the bottom board...

 

[Mr.Beeman]

I do place the hive on a clean bottom board in the spring. The dirty one from the forst hive gets cleaned and gets set down for the next hive. And so on and so on and so on down the line.