Sir, you’re amazing! I have a small apiary, about ten hives and I’ll sit for hours watching them come and go. I’d LOVE to have this exact setup in my home office! If you ever make this available for purchase, I will 💯% buy one!!
How are you going to separate the bees away from the hexagonal frames? As each generation is born in used hole it gets smaller so the new born bee is smaller. Are you going too take the hexagonal hole frame holder off the wall when scrape the wax off, Then put it back?
When you made the hose / hose to outside significantly larger... how did you deal with hornets/wasps, moths, robber bees, etc? I find with my observation hive if the actual entrance hole is larger than 20mm and hose larger than 30mm, they are not able to 'defend' the entrance hole properly. Hose size between wall cells (brood?) and honey cells (flowhive frames) can be any size. Did your bees make honey in the flow frames when they are below the brood (wall cell) frames? My bees will only make brood in the lower frames and honey in the higher in elevation frames. Did you find you had more honey in your flowhive frames If/when you moved the flowhive frames box to a higher elevation compared to the wall units?
I noticed how a bee at 7:52 is bringing out a dead drone(and thought that it was suspiciasly quick of them to use that entrance for that), and i was just wondering if ur still using a queen excluder on the first entrance? cuz i think that the drones might not be able to squeeze thruw those. (Im about as good a speller as im at english grammar :P, so if ur unable to read/understand anything of it, point it out and i will try to reformulate), As always i really like your updates.
Sir, you’re amazing! I have a small apiary, about ten hives and I’ll sit for hours watching them come and go. I’d LOVE to have this exact setup in my home office! If you ever make this available for purchase, I will 💯% buy one!!
How are you going to separate the bees away from the hexagonal frames? As each generation is born in used hole it gets smaller so the new born bee is smaller. Are you going too take the hexagonal hole frame holder off the wall when scrape the wax off, Then put it back?
Please make the files available! That’d be amazing to create.
Did the ribs seem to help with the coming and going?
When you made the hose / hose to outside significantly larger... how did you deal with hornets/wasps, moths, robber bees, etc?
I find with my observation hive if the actual entrance hole is larger than 20mm and hose larger than 30mm, they are not able to 'defend' the entrance hole properly. Hose size between wall cells (brood?) and honey cells (flowhive frames) can be any size.
Did your bees make honey in the flow frames when they are below the brood (wall cell) frames?
My bees will only make brood in the lower frames and honey in the higher in elevation frames.
Did you find you had more honey in your flowhive frames If/when you moved the flowhive frames box to a higher elevation compared to the wall units?
I hav made some changes this year. Here is a link to a later video. ua-cam.com/video/8WoNydKwMFk/v-deo.html
have you try add rope inside the tube for help bee to climb ?
I noticed a night-butterfly looking kind of insect in your hive at 9:16 (at the top left, moving south), any idea what that is?
I noticed how a bee at 7:52 is bringing out a dead drone(and thought that it was suspiciasly quick of them to use that entrance for that), and i was just wondering if ur still using a queen excluder on the first entrance? cuz i think that the drones might not be able to squeeze thruw those.
(Im about as good a speller as im at english grammar :P, so if ur unable to read/understand anything of it, point it out and i will try to reformulate), As always i really like your updates.
Yes I'm using a queen excluder on both entrances.
I wish you were my dad