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I've been reading the Tim Rowe book on The Rose Hive Method.
His "Rose Hive" sounds an awful lot like the medium Langstroth box commonly used in the US - except that the "Rose Hive" has 12 frames instead of the 10 or 8 typically found in a US medium.
What is the significance of a hive body containing 12 frames? Is it a standard number used outside of the US?
If 12 is considered at least by Tim Rowe as natural - I guess we should be asking how many combs are in a typical bee tree? I had always presumed that there was great space variance in bee cavities, and that the bees ultimately filled the available space.
In Rowe's book he writes that the bees shift about in the cavity, leaving areas of older comb unused so that they can be destroyed by wax moths - thereby creating spce for the bees to draw new comb.
Thoughts?
His "Rose Hive" sounds an awful lot like the medium Langstroth box commonly used in the US - except that the "Rose Hive" has 12 frames instead of the 10 or 8 typically found in a US medium.
What is the significance of a hive body containing 12 frames? Is it a standard number used outside of the US?
If 12 is considered at least by Tim Rowe as natural - I guess we should be asking how many combs are in a typical bee tree? I had always presumed that there was great space variance in bee cavities, and that the bees ultimately filled the available space.
In Rowe's book he writes that the bees shift about in the cavity, leaving areas of older comb unused so that they can be destroyed by wax moths - thereby creating spce for the bees to draw new comb.
Thoughts?