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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => EQUIPMENT USAGE, EXPERIMENTATION, HIVE PLANS, CONSTRUCTION TIPS AND TOOLS => Topic started by: cao on March 17, 2014, 09:49:56 PM

Title: Wrapping hives
Post by: cao on March 17, 2014, 09:49:56 PM
Background: I'm a new beekeeper with almost a full years experience having bees.

Has anyone thought about or tried wrapping their hives with landscape fabric.  The thought I had is that the fabric being black would help heat the hive but would let it "breathe".  This was just an idea I had.  Any opinions from the more experienced beekeepers?

Chris
Title: Re: Wrapping hives
Post by: Michael Bush on March 18, 2014, 07:57:15 AM
I have heard of it.  I have not tried it.
Title: Re: Wrapping hives
Post by: danno on March 18, 2014, 10:49:13 AM
why not just paint the boxes dark colors