Extended entrances

[Davidwd]

Does anyone use extended entrances?
I was at wimpole hall the other week and i believe it was a warre type hive with glass observation windows. The entrance was a glass tube going from the hive up through the roof of the single story building and exiting near the gutter. I couldnt help but think the bees looked so much happier. Ther were lots of people there but very few actually realised there was even a bee hive there. I thought what a good idea if you did not want bees actually flying around your garden.

 

[The Cumbrian]

I have never used one myself but I have seen an observation hive in a school which ran a plastic pipe through a wall and up to roof level (single story).

Kids passed continually with no problem and many not even knowing they were there.

 

[Silly Bee]

Wasps don't like tunnels. I put one on my hives if they become a nuisance

 

[drstitson]

"I thought what a good idea if you did not want bees actually flying around your garden."

perhaps better to get a flat in the middle of a city centre if not keen on bees going about their business.

 

[Beeforest]

"I thought what a good idea if you did not want bees actually flying around your garden."

perhaps better to get a flat in the middle of a city centre if not keen on bees going about their business.

Ouch!

 

[Davidwd]

"I thought what a good idea if you did not want bees actually flying around your garden."

perhaps better to get a flat in the middle of a city centre if not keen on bees going about their business.

Some people may have children that are scared of bees??

 

[Davidwd]

Wasps don't like tunnels. I put one on my hives if they become a nuisance

Does the pipe have to be of a certain length for the bees to be able to find the entrance? Or would you gradually extend it over a few days?

 

[The Cumbrian]

Does the pipe have to be of a certain length for the bees to be able to find the entrance? Or would you gradually extend it over a few days?

Again no personal experience but the school one I mentioned went in as a single operation. A couple of feet to the wall and through it, 90 degree bend and then up to the roof a further 8 or 9 feet.

Putting it in in sections would have put the bees at child level for part of the time and there was a pathway beside the entrance.

 

[FreeFall]

perhaps better to get a flat in the middle of a city centre if not keen on bees going about their business.

I, personally, think there was supposed to be a smiley at the end of that post.