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Modifications of the Warré hive and accessories
| Originator (in historical order) | Principal modifications |
| Roger Delon | Floor, crown board and insulation, roof, wood/wire frame |
| Andy Collins | Brood nest continuity, through provision for central combs to extend downwards into the next box. Thicker boxes. Shallower boxes. |
| Jean-Marie Frèrès & Jean-Claude Guillaume | Window in each box, mosquito net instead of top-bar cloth, ventilated roof with bee-tight quilt that lifts inside roof to accommodate a feeder |
| Marc Gatineau | Frames, closable entrance in each box, lift. For a selection of Gatineau-type lifts, see also lift.htm . |
| Gilles Denis | Half-frame, conventional roof and crown board |
| Jean-François Dardenne | Two-queen system in double Warré |
| David Heaf | National hive roof design resized to fit a Warré |
| David Croteau | 'Sump' on concrete slab instead of Warré floor, closable and ventilateable entrance in each box |
| John Moerschbacher | 'Sump' on ground with mesh, experiment on octagonal box shape in 2009 |
| Reviewed by Jean-François Dardenne | Round and polygonal Warré-type (nadired) hives where the number of sides of the polygon is greater than four. |
| Floors, sumps and stands | Mesh floors, floors for feeders and observation, sumps, individual stands, shared stands |
| John Haverson | Top-bar comb inspection frame |
| Bill Wood | Comb knife for removing top-bar combs from a populated Warré hive |
| Alex Templeton | Modified quilt for improved ventilation under mouse board in roof |
| Jan-Michel Schütt | Warré double-pitch roof using slate |
| Bill Anderson | Warré hive insulation with wool inside fabric wrapping |