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>>Since the bees have to produce all the wax, every time, you get less
honey, but more wax.  As for better honey, one school of thought contends
that comb honey is THE BEST Honey, since it holds onto all the good flavor
the bees incorporated into it....  If you plan on extracting and reusing
combs, consider using the long box, but use a standard frame.

I have a much clearer picture of the TBH.  Thank you.  I recall reading
somewhere along the line that it takes some 12 pounds of honey to produce 1
pound of wax.  Since a big chunk of the honey goes to comb production, there
is obviously less left in the cells.

Ahlert sent me a great overview of the Golz hive.  It is what I had in mind
when asking about the TBH hive.  In the Golz hive, the bees are presented
with standard frames to deposit their honey.  So there is no huge
undertaking to produce lots and lots of wax.  The queen excluder is
positioned between the adjacent brood and honey rows.

Also, the honey frames are in a row along the row of brood frames.  Not
behind.  During the winter, the bees would need to move as a cluster
sideways rather than towards the back of the hive.  Someone pointed out that
bees prefer to move up rather than back during the winter.  Since they don't
have to traverse frames front to back in the Golz hive, I would think they
would have no problem moving sideways to get to more honey.

Waldemar

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