Crowdsource Campaign has Launched

CombForms™ Fund Raising Campaign 

has launched.

Please visit our Campaign linked above.

Building Comb with CombForms™

Under Development for Indiegogo Crowdfunding

I am excited to let you know that I have developed a tool to help beekeepers improve the management of their hives, based upon an extensive study into historical and current beekeeping practices. CombForms™ is a device that fits between the frames in a beehive to assist beekeepers in guiding their bees to produce uniform straight comb along with other benefits. Over the last several months I've been working with my team on developing a crowd source campaign with Indiegogo to promote my invention.

Our website and blog are under development in preparation for our Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. - coming soon!

Summary of CombForms™ use

Introducing CombForms™

Introducing CombForms™

Expanding the Brood

Limit the use of CombForms™ between brood frames to no more than 25%. 

One well known rule of beekeeping is "Don't split the brood". CombForms™ allow passage of workers, queens and drones so they can be placed between brood combs when being used to guide the hive to expand, but bees do this best when encouraged to make gradual changes. This means a weak hive or a nucleus hive with three frames of brood can be encouraged to produce one more frame of brood by placing one empty frame between two comb forms just at the edge of the brood ball. If you have six frames of brood you can encourage them to produce additional brood by adding an empty frame between two comb forms on both sides of the brood ball.

One CombForm™ is inserted within the brood ball to correct misshapen comb

Additional CombForms™ are used outside the brood ball in the areas of misshapen comb.

Manage the Empty Space

Use one or more CombForms™ to fill extra empty space by placing them at the hive wall. 

The CombForms™ is being used as a perforated follower board. It helps promote ventilation at the hive wall which can help dissipate condensation moisture but keeps the bees from filling the empty space with bridge comb.