When beekeeps refer to 4 frames of brood, do you mean 4 frames with brood on both sides, or does a frame of brood refer to one side of a frame having brood on it.
Not a big deal but occasionally you read about performing a certain function when you have X number of frames of brood, or someone bought a nuc with 3 frames of brood, or someone will describe a hive inspection where they saw X number of frames of brood and I was just wondering if that meant there were brood on one or both sides of the frame.
ld
Simply means there is brood, some possibly capped on one or two sides of a frame. Eggs, larvae, pupae equals brood.
...JP
I would say it means a frame with a significant amount of brood on it. It would have to be more than just a few cells with eggs, larvae, or capped brood. If half of all cells on both sides are brood, that would definitely qualify.
Anything less than brood on both sides of a frame is considered a partial frame of brood. So brood on one side of frame is partial, brood on both sides of the frame is a full frame of brood, generally speaking. Adding the partial and full frames of brood within a hive will give you the total brood frames in a hive.
A hive containing 3 frames with brood on both sides and 1 frame with brood only on one side would be described as having 3 1/2 frames of broods. A hive having 3 frames with brood on both sides and 2 frames having brood on only one side would be described as having 4 frames of brood.