You can save the bees

[fatshark]

I don't think that this new hive design (http://www.bubblebeehive.com) has had an airing on SBAi yet. Looks great, well insulated, good working height ... what could possibly go wrong?

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I think I'd be even keener if there were photos on the website of the hive actually containing some bees, rather than a fully-suited beekeeper examining a frame of foundation in a concrete, glass and grass desert ... still, looks a whole lot cooler than anything I own.

About €400 since you asked :)

[Jon]

Looks a bit like Heidi's dung hive (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj01fTetZbPAhWIShQKHSCzCvAQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dax OnGEBubng&psig=AFQjCNHqATJdWhPXjEe-LVjjXrHAhzeWJg&ust=1474202308122781) but made without the dung

[Adam]

Looks a bit like Heidi's dung hive (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj01fTetZbPAhWIShQKHSCzCvAQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dax OnGEBubng&psig=AFQjCNHqATJdWhPXjEe-LVjjXrHAhzeWJg&ust=1474202308122781) but made without the dung

Could also make a great lampshade! In the UK I'd rather use a timber box hive although in some parts of the world the hive we are used to is unsuitable.

[Adam]

I see you add bubbles when you add supers. I wonder how propolis will glue it all together.

But then, annoyingly the website goes on to say "In the United States, the loss of 30-40 percent of the bee colonies in 2006, has been linked to Colony Collaps Disorder, a syndrome of depopulation of beehives, characterized by the disappearance of worker bees" Maybe true, but it gives a false impression as bees can make that up fairly easily each year.. So a plastic hive will make all the difference!

[Jon]

Dennis Van Engelsdorp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_vanEngelsdorp) said recently that there have been no proven CCD cases for about 4 years.
I think there is some regret that the term CCD was ever coined.
To this day we are still getting stories about bees dying out in the UK press.

[The Drone Ranger]

Barbeque and beehive combo
That's good design except it's plastic
They missed a trick there 😉

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[fatshark]

D'oh! Just realised the problem I'll have balancing my extractor when I load up the super frames ... <slaps forehead>

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There's some anti-neonic stuff on the web suggesting that Hackenberg has lost his bees again (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34589-beekeeper-who-sounded-alarm-on-colony-collapse-disorder-loses-90-of-his-hives) (though I can't find an original source for this) and he's certainly filed a lawsuit (http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/2016-1-6-Dkt-1-Pls-Complaint.pdf) against the EPA for licensing/misuse of neonics.

[busybeephilip]

Really cool hive, can just picture the little green goblins jumping out with ray guns blasting ....must get one before the rush starts :p

never mind the extractor, thornees will have to sell foundation in even more different sizes

[Jon]

There's some anti-neonic stuff on the web suggesting that Hackenberg has lost his bees again (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34589-beekeeper-who-sounded-alarm-on-colony-collapse-disorder-loses-90-of-his-hives)

You could almost set your clock by the annual appearance of that story.
Hackenberg is the main poster child for CCD - whatever that is.