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Beekeeping,Treating wood Beehive boxes,tops,bottoms.Beekeepers Bee hives preservation wood rot stop

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Uploaded by on Oct 1, 2009

Part 1, Beekeeping, More at http://georgiabees.blogspot.com Treating wood beehive boxes,tops, bottoms, Pollen traps to prevent rot. Georgia Beekeeper John Pluta shows how on his Bee Hive box parts. Beekeepers lose to many beehives to early wood rot decay on untreated hives. Southern Beekeeping like in Florida, Georgia,Alabama,South Carolina,Mississippi,Louisiana beehive wood box preservation is a must from high humidity beehives rot quickly.Moving honeybee hives for farm crop pollination several times a year ,beekeepers need good tight beehives to prevent bee escapes when moving in public.

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  • can you treat it with just beeswax?

  • Tried that before,worked good till first summer heat wave. Wax leaches out running everywhere drawing other bees to wax smell causing robbing.

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  • I HAVE A SUGGESTION,WHY NOT USE NATURAL ROT RESISTANTE WOOD

  • wont the chemicals leach into the wax and bee toxic for your bees?

  • is these woods is expensive ? .. coz it looks eazy to make a hive from them :D

  • will they keep with just the dip,or do they have to be painted as well?

  • this is great

  • thanks for sharing!

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