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I'm a beekeeper, and I have a home-made bee escape to clear bees out of boxes that are ready to be harvested. I put it between the honey super and the brood box
by kaikai 9y ago
I'm a beekeeper, and I have a home-made bee escape to clear bees out of boxes that are ready to be harvested. I put it between the honey super and the brood box, and as it gets colder at night, bees move downward to keep the brood warm. The escape has a series of baffles that the bees can only navigate in one direction, so they're unable to get back into the honey super.
The only reason it works is that bees will consistently turn in one direction when they're faced with an obstacle, very much like a maze-traversing algorithm. Luckily my bee escape doesn't assume right or left handedness of the bees :)
The design exists online and has been around for ages, so beekeepers at least were already aware of this behavior.
- jmiller099 9y agoare any ambidextrous?
- jwoah12 9y agoAmbeedextrous?
- lostlogin 9y agoI laughed. You’re a beekeeper in the making. Awful puns seem to be part of the industry. One local company replaces the word ‘be’ with ‘bee’ in every instance. It’s horrid.
- rimliu 9y ago> You’re a beekeeper in the making Or just redditor. I do like puns on reddit. I am not a native English speaker so those are some additional language fun.
- lostlogin 9y agoHow many escape do you use per board? I’m just knocking some together and can’t decide - we are early in the flow and I’m filling boxes at an alarming rate (first season).
- kaikai 9y agoThere's one escape hole on the board. The escape takes up quite a bit of room so I think you'd have trouble fitting more. Congrats on your honey!
- twic 9y agoOne of these things? http://www.beeculture.com/make-a-triangle-bee-escape-heck-make-one-for-every-hive/ http://www.beeculture.com/make-a-triangle-bee-escape-heck-ma... Basically a bee diode.
- kaikai 9y agoYup! That looks just like mine.