Painting our Beehive- What kind of Paint to use in 2020?

Painting your backyard beehive. We painted our hive as a fun family project and we show you where our newly painted hives will be located. Our Kids helped paint the hives.

[noahriding]

Your boxes look very cool. That's a really great paint job near the end with the designs and other things in there.

[sherryg.]

So glad I found your channel. I am expecting my first bees in Spring 2023, and I have been looking for someone who started videos from day 1.
Thank you.

[lkstatic]

Where did you get the honeycomb stensil? I ordered some but they were too small.

[noahriding]

Just found your channel and wishing you success with bees.

I did have a question;

Is there any reason you can't just use normal latex (inside) paint on the boxes if you do multiple layers? I hear people talking about primers and then the outer coating, and nobody can tell me if there's really much chemical difference between primer and the outer paint.

But this is complicated by the fact that because bees are fairly expensive I have to use whatever paint is available. And often its left over primers and stuff.

So I don't really know if there's really much difference between how the two kinds of paint are made?

Plus, why is it that sometimes dirt sticks to boxes after painting (long after the paint is dry)? I'm in a dry western state that gets a bit of dust in the air. And for some reason some boxes seem to have the dirt stick on. And I'm not sure why, or if there's a way to keep the paint nice?