Nest foundation is the foundation stone for bees to build houses. Now there are also special nest foundation tools on the market, such as plastic nests, thin nests, etc. Here we take plastic nests as an example. How do we know how to install plastic nests? Now let's get to know!

What is the base of the nest?

The nest base is the base of the artificially manufactured honeybee nest, which is the concave convex thin plate of the initially formed bottom and base of the nest after being pressed by the nest base machine. The nest base is generally supported by beeswax or non-toxic plastic raw materials, which are embedded in the nest frame when used, and then the worker bees will secrete beeswax on this basis to raise the wall of the nest to form a complete nest spleen.

How to install the honeycomb base?

1. Stay wire

Before installing the base piece of the bee nest, you must go through the pull wire step. Because the stay wire can prevent the base piece from breaking during use. Usually, when pulling wire in the beehive, most people use No. 24 iron wire. After it is straightened, it is broken into a wire about 2.3 meters long. Then it is put on the side beam of the beehive three to four times. Finally, the wire head is fixed.

2. Installation of beehive base

After pulling the wire, you can put the original nesting frame in, and let both sides of the nesting frame further reinforce the two ends of the wire.

3. Buried wire

Wire embedding is also a necessary process before installing the nest base piece. You can buy a special wire embedding device, and then put beeswax on it. For the drawn wire, it should be surrounded by beeswax, and the surface should be smooth. If you do not do this, you can also buy a professional embedding plate, which can be directly installed into the beehive according to the instructions.

4. Installation of bee nest base

After all the above steps are completed, the purchased nesting base pieces can be separated one by one, and then inserted into the card slot on the nesting base frame. When inserting, pay attention to that the buried lines evenly exist on both sides of the nesting base pieces.

Advantages of Plastic Nest Foundation

Advantages 1: good temperature resistance

   The plastic nesting base has the advantages of good temperature resistance, no deformation and contraction, and good tensile elongation. The service life of general plastic nesting bases is relatively long. There is no plastic injector on the plastic nesting base, and it can also be used as an ordinary nesting base, effectively overcoming the phenomenon that the new spleen is fragile and the spleen is lost. Adding a good distance at a time can save the time-consuming and laborious process of daily inspection.

Advantages 2: good integrity and unity

   The honeycomb on the plastic nest base is unified and complete according to the manual manufacturing process. After the bee colony accepts the honeycomb, the area of worker bees' honeycomb retained in the plastic nest base is large, reducing the probability of creating drone honeycomb.

Advantages 3: It is good for controlling bees

   When using the plastic nest base, wax can be melted frequently to achieve the purpose of disinfection, and the new spleen can also be repeatedly used and reshaped, which is also conducive to controlling the bees, purposefully cultivating strong worker bees and laying a good foundation for feeding intensity.

Advantages 4: Easy installation

   The plastic nesting base is easy to install without drawing lead wire and inlaying the nesting base, which is conducive to the use of the wooden nesting frame with the upper and lower beams grooved.

Advantage 5: One box for multiple purposes

    The plastic nest base can be used for multiple purposes in one box to maximize the utility of tools. It can also be used as a double king partition board in special periods. If a wooden strip is added on the four sides to match the space of the nest box, it will also add two sides of the spleen to help improve efficiency.