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Comments for My Backyard
Musings on gardening and beekeeping
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 02:40:49 +0000
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Comment on Fall 2015: A Tale of Two hives by InnercityBees
https://dagesbackyard.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/fall-2015-a-tale-of-two-hives/#comment-65
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 02:40:49 +0000
https://dagesbackyard.wordpress.com/?p=119#comment-65
Wow, I never imagined bee keeping being such a stressful activity. It’s terrible that you are struggling with varroa mites, but interesting to see how you are experimenting with strategies. Luckily we don’t have them over in Australia yet, but my heart goes out to your colonies. I hope they make it through this.
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Comment on A New Queen? by Brian
https://dagesbackyard.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/a-new-queen/#comment-45
Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:25:43 +0000
https://dagesbackyard.wordpress.com/?p=103#comment-45
I purchased a few queens this year. They were all pretty much black in color and impossible to spot. Even with a mark. I just keep seeing eggs and I’m in good shape.
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Comment on The Flow Hive by Daniel Dage
https://dagesbackyard.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/the-flow-hive/#comment-34
Sat, 09 May 2015 17:59:48 +0000
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Thanks for reading and commenting!
You do bring up a lot of good points, especially about the wax. The flow frames, at most, make up about 50% of a box, so you still have regular frames that would have wax comb. But clean wax from cappings is important to have and the flow frames would reduce that source significantly.
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Comment on The Flow Hive by Brian
https://dagesbackyard.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/the-flow-hive/#comment-32
Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:11:41 +0000
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I thought this was well written from a novice perspective. I for one am no expert on beekeeping, but having kept bees for a few years I have a slightly different opinion. I do think that the design is innovative and does have a place in beekeeping. I would like to point out however, that honey harvesting is NOT the bulk of a beekeepers work. To buy into the premise of the Flow Hive you would also have to be a beekeeper who has no interest in wax because with the flow hive there is no method for harvesting wax. That alone in my small operation would be a huge downside. Also even though you don’t have to open the hive to harvest the honey you still need to open the hive inspect the brood chamber on a regular basis. Typically you would do this two to three times a month. So the advertisement of it being less intrusive is a bit misleading. One other concern is being able to tell if your honey is cured or not. Most of the time you tell this by the honey being capped by wax. Even though their design has a window you can only see one side of one frame. That is not enough of a view to know for sure your honey is cured. To know for sure you would have to open the hive to pull each frame then reinstall them to harvest.
You do bring up a lot of good points, especially about the wax. The flow frames, at most, make up about 50% of a box, so you still have regular frames that would have wax comb. But clean wax from cappings is important to have and the flow frames would reduce that source significantly.
I think the most practical application would be drawing down excess honey during a heavy flow time and avoid the work and bother of having to add many extra supers.
]]>With all of that said above I do see some practical application in my operation. It’s just not going to be the saving grace that the advertisements have led people to believe. One of the reasons it has application you brought up. It was the predrawn comb. It is a challenge to have enough around. The other for me at least it would be a bit less time consuming for my hives that are not at my home apiary. I also think I could run more total colonies. I just simply wouldn’t set all of them up with flow supers so I could still have a sufficient amount of wax.
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