Oddly-Shaped Hive Is Bee-Friendly

Oddly-Shaped Hive Is Bee-Friendly FARM HOME Miscellaneous In recent years colony collapse disorder CCD has become a big problem for honeybee producers Ron Breland an organic beekeeper in Australia says his new dodecahedron bee hive design fits the nature of bees better than conventional hives reducing stress on them
    Breland lost all his bees in 1996 so he went looking for the cause of bee swarm losses He says two factors were subjecting bees to unnatural conditions: widespread use of the conventional square-cornered Langstroth bee hive and the stresses involved in transferring commercial hives to different areas as well as feeding bees high fructose corn syrup
    He says his dodecahedron design is the kind of hive that bees would build if they could use power tools It s a 5-sided hive built strictly for bee comfort and not for honey production Beekeepers around the U S have been testing his hives and harvesting honey from them
    Breland says bees shouldn t be forced into cramming honeycombs into unnaturally square shapes as with conventional beehive designs His hives allow honeycombs with naturally rounded edges The unusually shaped hives also allow bees to gather and move around in the hive in a more natural manner
    To view videos of Breland explaining the benefits of his hives search up his name at YouTube com
    Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Ron Breland 323 Strawtown Rd West Nyack N Y 10994 ph 845 353-0513

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