What? I’ve kept bees for years, and this is ridiculous. If you want to make a diy hive that mimics bees natural nests, check out top bar hives. Don’t build them using pallets, which are often treated with insecticides to avoid spreading pests via shipping routes. Only opening your hives to harvest is irresponsible, because in order to care for your bees and avoid spreading diseases to neighboring hives you need to be monitoring for things like varroa mites. This whole article is full of “yikes.”<p>If you’re interested in keeping bees, search for a local bee guild. They exist all over the place and are usually very welcoming to new folks, with a wealth of actually useful advice and resources.
"This hive can be armed with the wood that everyone has on hand, such as pallet wood, or pallets, as they are called"<p>Be very careful should you choose to do this. Some pallets are chemically treated to kill invasive species like pine beetles. This treatment could be toxic to both the bees directly and to you indirectly via the honey.<p><a href="https://www.1001pallets.com/pallet-safety/" rel="nofollow">https://www.1001pallets.com/pallet-safety/</a>
Nitpick:<p>> I do not forget what Albert Einstein said:<p>> If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left.<p>Einstein didn't say this, nor is it true.<p><a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/27/einstein-bees/" rel="nofollow">https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/27/einstein-bees/</a>
As someone who has known about Perrone and his hives for a few years and has tried to follow his plans and directions, there is a key piece of information missing from most of his literature. The bees that Perrone has are Africanized and therefore way more aggressive and industrious. For those of us with standard European honey bees, the cavity sizes are just too large.
It would be interesting to see if foundation, the thin hexagonal structure which is used to encourage the bees to build out honeycomb frames in a regular way thereby aiding extraction, could be replaced with a laser printed sheet of paper with the hexagonal structure just printed on it.<p>What is the minimum viable prompting bees need to build nice regular frames of honeycomb?
I already purchase my hives as pieces of wood that I have to assemble, glue/nail together, paint, etc and I know that the measurements for things like the bee space are correct so the bees won't gum it up. Always neat to see these DIY projects, but I feel like pre-cut is about as much as I trust my ability to measure and construct precisely.
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I recently heard of a new type of beehive that should change the way beekeeping is done, and create lots of new beekeepers.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_Hive" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_Hive</a><p><a href="https://www.honeyflow.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.honeyflow.com/</a>