New Beehive Lets You Harvest Honey Automatically Without Disturbing Bees
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With this brilliant invention by Stuart and Cedar Anderson, a father-and-son beekeeper team in Australia, honey bees around the world can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Their Flow Hive invention allows beekeepers to harvest honey from their hives without disturbing the bees inside.
The clever invention works by providing the bees with a partially-completed wall of honeycomb cells that they then complete with their own wax. After they fill these cells with honey and cap them with wax, the beekeeper can open the other end, allowing the honey to flow out into a tap without ever disturbing the bees. The bees simply reopen the cells and fill them up again.
Honey bees around the world are in trouble from something called colony collapse disorder, and this is highly worrisome because of the honey they produce and the agricultural plants they pollinate. Hopefully, this hive will give weakened hives a much-needed break from intrusive visits from the bee keeper!
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Much nicer than gassing and disturbing them,
They aren't 'gassed', they're 'smoked'. It brings on ancient instincts of forest fires, causing them to go back to the hive to eat.
I don't use smoke. I use 1/1 sugar syrup with 1Tbsp HBH per gallon. Then just a light mist and the bees calm. They also feed on that.
Yes that is correct, the bees after smelling the smoke will go to the hive and gorge themselves on the honey,
Smoking also covers the alert/intruder pheromone that triggers aggressive defense of the hive. The more honey, the more defensive they are.
How can I get one?
Don't do it - these hives stress the bees and weaken the colony. see below
I'd like to get one, too. What is cost?
I hope this is as good as it sounds. The bees need to have less interference from us (like every other creature...).
Much nicer than gassing and disturbing them,
They aren't 'gassed', they're 'smoked'. It brings on ancient instincts of forest fires, causing them to go back to the hive to eat.
I don't use smoke. I use 1/1 sugar syrup with 1Tbsp HBH per gallon. Then just a light mist and the bees calm. They also feed on that.
Yes that is correct, the bees after smelling the smoke will go to the hive and gorge themselves on the honey,
Smoking also covers the alert/intruder pheromone that triggers aggressive defense of the hive. The more honey, the more defensive they are.
How can I get one?
Don't do it - these hives stress the bees and weaken the colony. see below
I'd like to get one, too. What is cost?
I hope this is as good as it sounds. The bees need to have less interference from us (like every other creature...).