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Welcome to BYC!

You sound like someone I would very much enjoy knowing in real life. Have you heard of the "Flow Hive"? It allows you to harvest honey without opening the hive or upsetting the bees. I don't know if there are any downsides to it as I don't know much about bees, but it seems to me like it would work well and be kinder to the bees than taking off their roof and possibly smashing some when handling the frames.
 
Teila said:
G’Day from down under Rusalka :frow Welcome!

I hope you enjoy being a BYC member. There are lots of friendly and very helpful folks here so not only is it overflowing with useful information it is also a great place to make friends and have some fun.
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Thank you!
Glad to meet you! I'm sure it will be great to be the part of this all! Already met so many kind person! :D
 
Kusanar said:
Welcome to BYC!

You sound like someone I would very much enjoy knowing in real life. Have you heard of the "Flow Hive"? It allows you to harvest honey without opening the hive or upsetting the bees. I don't know if there are any downsides to it as I don't know much about bees, but it seems to me like it would work well and be kinder to the bees than taking off their roof and possibly smashing some when handling the frames.
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Thank you so much! :hugs
I've heard of it, and thought the same you do, already found some frames with great prices the time when I started to think about it, but I did some searching on it, and I found that it makes communication impossible for them inside, as plastic is not a 'living' thing, and breaks their messages to the other side of the combs.:(
Also the wax is important to me, that I can't get with a flow hive.:) I need it to make candles, because I don't want to use electricity later, when I build my final house, but I might need light sometimes:) With a top bar hive, there is no frame or bases, the whole comb is built by them, so I would get more wax even with very small amount of combs stolen from them. (Because I don't want to take too much, maybe one or two, if they still can replace it and only if it's needed at the moment-also in my country they want us to prevent swarming, most of those will be killed, so giving them work will do the trick-, but I plan mostly just take the honey left after the winter season, so they can build new combs, and store fresh food for the next year, also I will want to refresh the nest with empty honey combs every year, so that will get me some honey and wax too by removing the old nest when everyone came out.:D)
 

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