Frames

With Forestry, frames can only be used in Apiaries to improve the production rate of the bees.

Extra Bees added a block for the Alveary, so that frames are also usable there. It also added several frames with additional modifiers.

Magic Bees also added new frames, which don't tax the local aura anymore (as they did before 2.0.0).

Frames modify one or more of: All these values are multiplicative.
 * Production Chance
 * Mutation Chance
 * Lifetime
 * Territory

Some frames have a maximum effect achievable with stacking that type of frame.

If your frames change the mutation rate to more than 1000%, the princess/queen may degenerate to a swarmer bee. The same is true if you overwork her by boosting production rate to more than 1600%. Swarmer bees are marked with a [-] behind their name and will die off at a random time in the future.

Special Notes

 * The frames added by Forestry (Untreated, Impregnated, Proven Frame) won't have an effect if your production boost without that frame is above 1000%, but if it still below 1000%, it will have the full effect. 4 frames will boost to 1600%, a fifth frame won't have any effect.
 * The frames added by Extra Bees have their maximum at the given value. Should you use 3 Chocolate Frames, the lifetime is shortened to 50% exactly. Adding more frames won't have any effect.