Low Cost Honey Bee Box

In beekeeping, honey bee box is one of the vital input required for keeping bee colony.The conventional honey bee box is made with wood, which is obtained from substantially large tree- a precious environmental resources. Cost of bee boxes made from wood is high enough. The cost of honey bee box production is mainly depending on the raw materials cost i.e. wood and the wages of carpenter. Price of wood is accelerating and therefore, cost of honey bee box is also exponentially increased. Further, the special skill requires to prepare wooden bee boxes is restricted to a few skilled person i.e. carpenter. Therefore, overall price of the boxes are increased. Use of wood is not environmentally sustainable. A normal bee box needs about 1 kb of wood. Therefore, huge quantity of wood is required annually for preparing bee boxes, which is not a sustainable practice. In this circumstances, it is needed to look on alternate material, which are ecofriendly, low cost, required no special skill to prepare and overall is good for honey bee.

           By considering the sustainability, cost of raw materials, skill and cost, CSIR-NEIST has developed the technology of low cost honey bee box, where wood is not used as construction materials of the bee box and instead of wood, other renewable alternate materials are used. 

Honey bee box which is used for keeping bee colonies for beekeeping.

• A low cost Bee box
• Environment friendly material
• Avoid using wood for conservation of trees
• Promote sustainable beekeeping practice
• Easy to prepare
• Maintain required temperature inside box irrespective to seasonal variation
• Better performance of honey bee than the conventional box
• An alternate to wooden box