Hi all
I am sorry, but this type of invention is a continuation in the long line of know nothing beekeeping. Back in the day, people killed the bees and crushed the combs. Then we learned about the inner workings of the hive, how to care for bees, and judiciously remove honey as it accumulated.
Now we have a device where you can completely ignore the bees' needs and empty the combs periodically without even looking at them. This is a triumph for the school of know nothing beekeeping. This sort of approach encourages people to get bees on the assumption that "there's nothing to it."
Meanwhile, serious individuals are concentrating on the real problems at hand. How to get honey from bees without opening up the hive is not one of them. That was solved a long time ago: you hire minimum wage workers to do all the onerous chores. Here are some of the real problems:
National Honey Board Funds New Honey Bee Research Projects Focusing on Honey Bee Health
Firestone, Colo., February 18, 2015 – The National Honey Board has approved funding for ten new research projects focusing on honey bee health. The Board’s Research Committee, with input from an independent panel of experts, selected the projects from 22 proposals received from researchers around the world. The total dollar commitment for the ten projects is $231,800. In addition, the Board’s 2015 budget includes $61,366 for ongoing bee research projects from prior years.
The ten new projects approved for funding in 2015 include:
“Investigating the roll of pathogens on honey bee colony health,” Flenniken/Montana State University.
“A temporal analysis of honey bee colony heath in migratory beekeeping operations: Assessment of the relative contributions of agrochemical residues, pathogen incidence and abundance and pest loads to colony declines,” Kegley/Pesticide Research Institute & Pollinator.
“Evaluating the potential benefits of native prairie flowers for honey bees,” Spivak/University of Minnesota.
“The probiotic potential of Lactobacillus kunkeei for honey production,” McFrederick/University of California.
“Influence of Varroa mite (Varrao destructor) levels and management practices on insecticide sensitivity in the honey bee,” Rinkevich/Louisiana State University.
“Drought induced impacts on honey bee nutrition and productivity,” Rankin/University of California.
“Effect of commonly used agrochemicals and their interactions on honey bee colony health,” Sagili/Oregon State University.
“Understanding how nutritional source and behavioral state interact and influence resistance to abiotic stressors in honey bees,” Ottea/Louisiana State University Ag Center.
“Effects of inducible reactive oxygen species production on Nosema ceranae infection,” Snow/Barnard College/Columbia University.
“Field exposure and toxicity of neonicotinoid insecticides to honey bees via flowering field margins: The importance of continual pesticide exposure in bee forage,” Lundgren/USDA-ARS, NCARL.
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