Cesar,

When I started beekeeping in 1980, I bought over a beekeeping concern, which
entailed buying the hives, extractor, safety equipment etc.  Out of the
twenty hives a few were concrete.  The bees were never successful in these
hives, absconding regularly. I also found them heavy to move about,
particularly the supers. I also found they broke easily when vandals
entered, and they could not be repaired either.
The advantages I found were that they were the only hives left in my one
apiary after a fire had swept through.  Also after the bees absconded,
although the frames were mutilated by wax moth there was no damage done to
the hive body.

Eddy Lear
South Africa

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Sent: 07 June 2000 04:32
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Subject: Re: cement hives


Of course there may be some advantages, but for disadvantages would'nt
cement
(concrete) hives be very poor insulators?

Cesar Flores
Colorado
p.s. thanks for all the replies about comb in jars