Increase the production of your swarm!
The Timberbee sweater box to Lusitana beehive is inspired by the sweater box accompanying the Warre hive.
The sweater box consists of a wooden box with background on burlap, which is filled with sawdust, straw, or other material having good thermal insulation properties.
The Agasalho box that team Warre hive mimics the top of the cavity of a tree where a swarm settled, in the decaying wood allows the moisture escape the swarm nest, preventing condensation inside, in the form of water droplets.
The Benefits, compared to conventional tracksuit clipboard are immense:
In addition to providing thermal insulation to the cluster during the winter, the sweater box absorbs moisture hive, reducing condensation.
Due to the thermal insulation layer, the air passage makes very slowly, allowing the pheromone released by Queen gets better whole beehive, and stay longer inside, contributing to greater peace Swarm.
Another benefit is that, And during the summer we do not have to open the lid in tracksuit clipboard, air circulation makes up more slowly, so that honey aroma, which attracts honey bees thieves or predators, as sawflies, spreads more slowly, helping to attract less of these unwanted animals.
As we have an airier hive, we will have a swarm less susceptible to diseases such as ascoferiose (commonly known as create-of-chalk).
The sweater box reaches its optimal performance when coupled with the wooden roof type Warre.
It is advised to be used in conjunction with the plastic net for propolis collection, because, in addition to its propolis collection function, the network also protects the bottom of the blanket box, in burlap, to be gnawed by the bees.