Log Hive

[Millet]

This sounds like a good idea and they seem to know what they are on about..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBikO86q130

 

[REDWOOD]

Unfortunately they don't, anyone who keeps a very defensive colony will know that they get a very low vorroa drop. very unreasonable and painfull method of beekeeping.

 

[madasafish]

This sounds like a good idea and they seem to know what they are on about..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBikO86q130

no insulation

 

[bpmurray]

no insulation

And not much ventilation, although he could put matches under the roof.

 

[Millet]

Unfortunately they don't, anyone who keeps a very defensive colony will know that they get a very low vorroa drop. very unreasonable and painfull method of beekeeping.

I know, Hence my smilies

 

[Millet]

no insulation

I was thinking of emailing them on that subject.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

The very worst of leaveitalone beekeeping - what an absolute trumpet!!

 

[Millet]

Here is a even better one..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5VvlSy0IO4

 

[REDWOOD]

Gotten yo self a fine dandy place to keep yo back yard tools boyo


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[GaryB]

So basically two twats showing off their woodworking skills with their power saws and routers. Chuck a few bees in, and believe that because the bees are in a "suedo natural environment", that they'll be varroa resistant. Yeah right. In the meantime their varroa ridden swarms will infest any other hives in the area. They believe that our native bee will adapt to and resist varroa. They may well do in the distant future, but not by these "beekeeping" means. Looking at the video, why did they not just cut a big hole in the tree that they hung the hive in? Would have saved a lot of time and effort. They're a joke!

 

[Minxpinx]

Aparently the National Trust are paying good money for that chap to hang his log hives in their woodland...

 

[Erichalfbee]

I wonder if I could get Stan to make me one?

 

[Millet]

 

[Hivemaker.]

Here are some more using logs..............https://www.arkwildlife.co.uk/Item/2454/BPLO-00-T1/Pollinating_Bee_Log.html

http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk...;103993;5253&gclid=CO2r6-DH688CFceVGwoduQwMSw

 

[Plenty of honey]

I like the way he makes a removable base so you can get OA vaporiser nicely underneath the colony.
As he says at the start, otherwise we would be breeding supermites!!! can of worms, or pandoras box!!1

 

[charlievictorbravo]

This sounds like a good idea and they seem to know what they are on about..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBikO86q130

Catching up on the forum after a holiday and followed this thread. I watched the video and the next one that Youtube served up was this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iswU2kfmVOM

It's by Jonathan Powell (from Frome, Somerset) of the Natural Beekeeping Trust. In it (just after 3.00 minutes in) he says something like "studies have shown that sugar damages bees' internal intestines (sic) and it destroys the natural enzyme P450 which the bees use to counteract some of the pesticides and toxins they find in the environment. "

I've never heard of such damage to bees anywhere in traditional beekeeping circles but was wondering if its a bit of quasi-science to justify their position on natural beekeeping or whether there really is a P450 enzyme that is destroyed by feeding sugar to bees and this does to the bees what is described.

Anybody got any knowledge of this aspect of feeding sugar to bees?

CVB

 

[REDWOOD]

Not a new idea and I thought beekeeping had progressed from then

 

[For want of a better word]

A mathematician beekeeper friend of mine tried keeping bees in logs....
he found they multiplied exponentially!

Yeghes da

 

[REDWOOD]

x3/2 + 2x + 1

 

[charlievictorbravo]

Catching up on the forum after a holiday and followed this thread. I watched the video and the next one that Youtube served up was this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iswU2kfmVOM

It's by Jonathan Powell (from Frome, Somerset) of the Natural Beekeeping Trust. In it (just after 3.00 minutes in) he says something like "studies have shown that sugar damages bees' internal intestines (sic) and it destroys the natural enzyme P450 which the bees use to counteract some of the pesticides and toxins they find in the environment. "

I've never heard of such damage to bees anywhere in traditional beekeeping circles but was wondering if its a bit of quasi-science to justify their position on natural beekeeping or whether there really is a P450 enzyme that is destroyed by feeding sugar to bees and this does to the bees what is described.

Anybody got any knowledge of this aspect of feeding sugar to bees?

CVB

With the forum being down yesterday, I wondered whether some of our experts may have missed my query.

Hoping for a reply!

CVB