scandinavian hive - bikupa - how does it work

[priono]

Hi. I was wondering if anybody has a clue how scandinavian or actually swedish hives work.

everything seems to be in one big box. when you open it the lower half is something like a TBH and the supers will sit on the TBH but still in the big box. somehow the TBH is smaller which makes a gap between inner and outer wall perhaps for installation.

It looks rather cosy for the bees but i am not sure if its easy to work with it as a keeper.

has anybody got a construction plan? i would like to try to build one.

 

[PBee]

Bikupa seems to be the swedish word for apiary/beehouse/beehive so don't know if it is an actual specific hive design. It possibly operates something like a long hive. Here are some possible sources;

http://beehivejournal.blogspot.ie/2009/01/build-it-yourself.html
Loads of different plans for beekeeping equipment and if you follow some links you come up with the attached plans which are for trough hives.
A link with good pictures of a modified long hive .... http://www.beebehavior.com/modified_european_long_hive.php
May not be what you are looking for but may be a start.

 

[Skyhook]

Found something here http://chopwoodcarrywaterplantseeds.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/tragkupa-old-horisontal-swedish-bee.html

Not a top-bar, more like a dartington- but twin-walled like a WBC.

Picturesque, but I suspect that this one is owned by a beekeeper who has his bees in Lagstroths tells you something!

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[PBee]

Found something here http://chopwoodcarrywaterplantseeds.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/tragkupa-old-horisontal-swedish-bee.html

Not a top-bar, more like a dartington- but twin-walled like a WBC.

Picturesque, but I suspect that this one is owned by a beekeeper who has his bees in Lagstroths tells you something!

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Nice yellow bees on that site.

 

[priono]

Thanks for your answers and thanks PBee. that is exactly what i was looking for

 

[Finman]

Hi. I was wondering if anybody has a clue how scandinavian or actually swedish hives work.
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This style hives were quite common 50 years ago when I started beekeeping.
From where the style came, is perhaps Germany.

My brother moved to live in Sweden 1970 and he took 2 Langstroths from me. Langstroth was very unknown in Sweden in those days and he must get foundations from Finland when he visited there.


Yes, the hive was a box where you put frames. One box was brood and then you put in summer a super. It needed not nothing else because in those days hives swarmed like mad.


Actually I saw very same hives in South Finland, but there was inside a polyhive. A huge old hive act as winter shelter.

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[Finman]

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Here are hives from Latvia

from Poland

aaaand here: Norske ny bikupor