Commercial
- Almost same cross section as National hive.
- Prolific queens use Commercial Brood and National Supers.
- Less prolific queen, busy workers ->National brood, Commercial Super.
- Note a commercial super of honey is very heavy.
- The sizes are:
- External dimensions - 465mm by 465 mm.
- Super height - 162mm.
- Weight Full Super - 11.4kg.
- Bee space - Bottom.
- Frame type - Commercial Deep and Commercial Shallow.
- Area in brood box - 19,353 sq cm (1.94 sq metres).
- Number of cells in brood box - 70,500.
- Frame top bar - 438mm * 27mm.
- Frame bottom bar - 406mm.
- Frame deep side bar - 254mm * 35mm.
- Frame shallow side bar - 152mm * 35mm.
- Frame - 11 Hoffman frames in brood and super.
- Frame - 10 Manley frames in super.
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