Apiamondia

[The Apprentices]

No condensation problems with the poly mini nucs.....
Yes i agree dovetails and box joints are easy,we do thousands of them....mass producing these mini mating box's will be the most important thing as far as i am concerned,rapid production.

I could write up the DXF's in Solidworks for the CNC boys if ever needed, but I only intend to make my own for the foreseeable future, quality is definately in my vocabulary, but its got to work properly.

I should have the feeder roof combination done in a couple of days, watch this space.

 

[Hivemaker.]

but its got to work properly.


Thats the important bit as well,efficiency for speed of use,and no frills.
Sawn off 2 litre plastic milk containers make great feeders, which fit straight into the feed compartment.

 

[The Apprentices]

but its got to work properly.


Thats the important bit as well,efficiency for speed of use,and no frills.
Sawn off 2 litre plastic milk containers make great feeders, which fit straight into the feed compartment.

I understand nature pretty well being an older farmers son but nature does things at a much slower pace and at room temprature, there is an old saying which goes,

If you Listen to what she is telling you, Watch what she is showing you, then we will know how she works, for the most part humans do neither.

I'm not a big fan of plastics, many can give off a plethera of fumes when heated, even at lower tempratures, a research institute in the States found that many electric kettles were far from safe and break down after a certain time, our's went the way many years ago.

Best to keep things natural and unaltered in the case of nature or one day we all might be eating the damned stuff, Heh, reminds me of my childhood days and songs like, The New Restaraunt by Malvina Reynolds.

In the case of bees, they have managed to survive what ever nature threw at them but have only lived with modern altered materials for a very short time and nature is having a problem in adjusting at an unatural rate created by man, this is what a few think could be part and parcel of the problem.

Abnormal evoloutionary stress.

 

[Hivemaker.]

If you Listen to what she is telling you, Watch what she is showing you, then we will know how she works, for the most part humans do neither.


Do you do any dowsing,have you sited any of your hives over geopathic stress curtain lines....ley lines.

Cars, trucks, and computers must be closely related to electric kettles by the sounds of your statement.

 

[The Apprentices]

If you Listen to what she is telling you, Watch what she is showing you, then we will know how she works, for the most part humans do neither.


Do you do any dowsing,have you sited any of your hives over geopathic stress curtain lines....ley lines.

Cars, trucks, and computers must be closely related to electric kettles by the sounds of your statement.

Dowsing no never tried it myself,, a freind and also beekeeper is a fairly good dowser, but the ancients I'm told got the curvature of the earth spot on with an avenue.

On the part about the PCB's leaching from plastic is true, so where does the cars and truck fit into all this?

 

[For want of a better word]

http://www.gaiatheory.org/

This could get you into "deep green~ ness" on our blue planet ?

 

[Hivemaker.]

On the part about the PCB's leaching from plastic is true, so where does the cars and truck fit into all this?

Mostly plastic,and break down....in fact just about everything we use is plastic,or is it only plastic kettles that are a problem.

 

[The Apprentices]

http://www.gaiatheory.org/

This could get you into "deep green~ ness" on our blue planet ?

James comes across as a lovely guy and his daisy world is a great childrens story, I have read a few of his books but that's as far as the model goes with me.

A much better explanation about the natural earth changes can be found on a blog by a guy called Adrian Vance, his simple coke bottle experiment will make you think before buying the global swindle taking place right now.

Other books worth reading are by Jarred Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel and collapse.

At a recent lecture about global warning/climate change, I asked the host, when did she think it would warm up again so we could recolonise Greenland again, grow crops there for another 450years as the Norse had done during what is officially known as the Medieval Warming period, a fact the Mr Gore conveniently forgets to mention in all of his books.

And to finish, Austrailian TV has recently put out on national prime time by a furniture company, saying its cool to cut down the rain forest to save the planet, so the timber stays in your home instead of burning it thus creating a carbon footprint.

I wonder what Lovelock would say to that.

 

[The Apprentices]

On the part about the PCB's leaching from plastic is true, so where does the cars and truck fit into all this?

Mostly plastic,and break down....in fact just about everything we use is plastic,or is it only plastic kettles that are a problem.

I understand now, one thing I did when I was way younger was work as a MVT and did a couple of years for the RAC so I know where your coming from regards cars and reliability.
You would be quietly surprised to hear that the venerable LADA was one of the most reliable and the escprt the worst.

I never went out to a LADA because most people could fix them themselves, in todays society we are now feeling the neglect of 30 yeats of living off of the backs of the poor and have nobody who can truly fix anything unless its got a compiter on the other end like a car.

Three recommended videos to see are.

One man one cow one planet.

The story of your enslavement.

and

Buy buy an american pie.

as to what many now think is ahead and what has already happened.

Enjoy

 

[victor meldrew]

http://www.gaiatheory.org/

This could get you into "deep green~ ness" on our blue planet ?

The text not the content

VM

 

[drstitson]

i bet the apprentices could turn their hand to making frames with drawn wooden foundation judging by quality of the wood working/joinery.

 

[Phil280]

Hi there.

I use Apidea boxes - have 26 of them and am very happy with the results. ~ 90% mated, returned and laying this year.
What you do is you only attach a small strip of foundation to the top of the frame - the bees will finish the rest if the queen is good. This is also a good way to see if everything worked out. Lots of fresh comb = queen mated, all happy. Hardly any comb = something went wrong.

The reason why the queen should not get to the food compartment ist because the bees tend to also build within the food chamber. The queen would start to lay eggs there - and you only want the eggs within the frames. Things get messy otherwise.

The indentations at the top of the frames also have a purpose. The Apidea has a sheet of transparent plastic over the frames. This has a hole with a flap over it. The hole is placed right over the cutouts of the frame enabling you to insert the Nicot-System with a queen cell ready to hatch.

My way of breeding: 100 grams of bees per box with food. Keep them closed in a cool, dark place for a day. Then insert the queen cell which is about to hatch. Keep the Apidea in the same place for another 3 or 4 days making sure the bees have water at least twice a day(I give wet foam via the front ventilation). Then when the queen has hatched let them out into the open.
I take them to a mating station and pick them up again after 7 - 14 days depending on the weather.

I do like the box you made. I would prefer the apidea boxes being wood. This would make them heavy but the Styrofoam does get damaged easily. The average life span of an Apidea box will probably be about 5 years of constant use during the season. I have managed to keep a small apidea colony alive over winter with two supers and a food lid.

Greets
Phil

 

[Poly Hive]

They must be very soft poly Phil as mine are over 30 years old, though they are the Kirchain type.

PH

 

[drstitson]

PH - the apideas are a slightly more "gracile" design than the more squat butressed keilers etc.

although none will last long being kicked around the apiary after a failure.

 

[The Apprentices]

Hi there.

I use Apidea boxes - have 26 of them and am very happy with the results. ~ 90% mated, returned and laying this year.
What you do is you only attach a small strip of foundation to the top of the frame - the bees will finish the rest if the queen is good. This is also a good way to see if everything worked out. Lots of fresh comb = queen mated, all happy. Hardly any comb = something went wrong.

The reason why the queen should not get to the food compartment ist because the bees tend to also build within the food chamber. The queen would start to lay eggs there - and you only want the eggs within the frames. Things get messy otherwise.

The indentations at the top of the frames also have a purpose. The Apidea has a sheet of transparent plastic over the frames. This has a hole with a flap over it. The hole is placed right over the cutouts of the frame enabling you to insert the Nicot-System with a queen cell ready to hatch.

My way of breeding: 100 grams of bees per box with food. Keep them closed in a cool, dark place for a day. Then insert the queen cell which is about to hatch. Keep the Apidea in the same place for another 3 or 4 days making sure the bees have water at least twice a day(I give wet foam via the front ventilation). Then when the queen has hatched let them out into the open.
I take them to a mating station and pick them up again after 7 - 14 days depending on the weather.

I do like the box you made. I would prefer the apidea boxes being wood. This would make them heavy but the Styrofoam does get damaged easily. The average life span of an Apidea box will probably be about 5 years of constant use during the season. I have managed to keep a small apidea colony alive over winter with two supers and a food lid.

Greets
Phil

Cheers Phil

This is what the forum is all about really, reciprocacy, nice one.
I borrowed an Apidea from the local inspector and guess what was in the canda shop.

 

[The Apprentices]

Hi there.

I use Apidea boxes - have 26 of them and am very happy with the results. ~ 90% mated, returned and laying this year.
What you do is you only attach a small strip of foundation to the top of the frame - the bees will finish the rest if the queen is good. This is also a good way to see if everything worked out. Lots of fresh comb = queen mated, all happy. Hardly any comb = something went wrong.

The reason why the queen should not get to the food compartment ist because the bees tend to also build within the food chamber. The queen would start to lay eggs there - and you only want the eggs within the frames. Things get messy otherwise.

The indentations at the top of the frames also have a purpose. The Apidea has a sheet of transparent plastic over the frames. This has a hole with a flap over it. The hole is placed right over the cutouts of the frame enabling you to insert the Nicot-System with a queen cell ready to hatch.

My way of breeding: 100 grams of bees per box with food. Keep them closed in a cool, dark place for a day. Then insert the queen cell which is about to hatch. Keep the Apidea in the same place for another 3 or 4 days making sure the bees have water at least twice a day(I give wet foam via the front ventilation). Then when the queen has hatched let them out into the open.
I take them to a mating station and pick them up again after 7 - 14 days depending on the weather.

I do like the box you made. I would prefer the apidea boxes being wood. This would make them heavy but the Styrofoam does get damaged easily. The average life span of an Apidea box will probably be about 5 years of constant use during the season. I have managed to keep a small apidea colony alive over winter with two supers and a food lid.

Greets
Phil

Timed out, here she is

 

[Hivemaker.]

Looks like a Swi-bine,not an Apidea.

 

[The Apprentices]

Nearly there

I have opted for the miller type top feeder with middle gallery and top screen and a built in bee space underneath.

I hav'nt decided where to place the top ventillation yet, any suggestions would be appreciated.

Also can anyone advise to what size hole queenie cannot sneak through or get stuck in, before I drill the holes, the floor of the feeder is 9.00mm thick plywood.

 

[The Apprentices]

Looks like a Swi-bine,not an Apidea.

Not sure what it was, no makers name on the outside, the frame sides are very thin 3.00mm plywood.
There was another I borrowed with sloping insides and a large blue plastic disc entrance underneath, there were only top bars in this one.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Not sure what it was, no makers name on the outside, the frame sides are very thin 3.00mm plywood.

Swi-bine.