Revealing the Sun Hive
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2012
- A great wonder to see what the bees built in four weeks of which only one was good weather.
The skeps weren't ready when the swarm came, so this was an opportunity to exchange them to ones coated in cow dung. Also, the inside covers over the wooden hoops needed to be changed, as the bees had eaten the calico cloth.
The form of the nest beautifully reveals the preferences of the Bien.
The sun hive is the creation of German sculptor Guenther Mancke, who has thus developed a hive like no other, a hive for bees.
The hive is made of biodynamically grown rye straw and was made in a therapeutic institution for autistic youngsters in Weissenseifen, Germany. A natural beekeeper's dream hive, introduced in UK by the Natural Beekeeping Trust and Tablehurst Farm.
Thank you. I am a conventional beekeeper with two national hives. 2012 was a horrendous year for the bees. All kinds of odd things happened as you're probably aware. You seem to me to be a very special sort of Bee angel. You have really got me thinking that humans have caused all this pandemonium with our beloved bees. Greed seems to be at the heart of the problem. Bless you for your great work.
Have you looked into Biodynamic Beekeeping Practices? they see about a 15% loss per year, vs conventional beekeepers losing 50% or more.
so peaceful
Thank you. The hive does allow for a "super" to put on top if the bees do exceptionally well and create a surplus. This can then be "harvested" if that is wanted. Personally, I am very happy with leaving that to the bees,too, as you never know what situation they will face next. There is no such thing as too much honey from the bees' point of view, I think.
I'd love to learn more about these Sun hives! Lovely ladies care for the bees !!! Birds singing and bees buzzing! Busy as a bee!!! The BRAVE one has no beekeeping garb on!
Fantastic.... greetings from Cyprus !!!
Trying to mimic be hives natualy although I believe they tend to build horizontal on top from branches in the wild. But aesthetically it is extraordinary.
super fantastic
Respect for the bees. I love how the lady is so gentle around these beautiful creatures. All too many commercial beekeepers I know just shake the bees violently from the frames and even carelessly step on the bees in their quest to "rape" the hives from their precious honey - and then feed the bees sugar syrup when they build the hives up. I am a Warre' beekeeper but am now very interested in the Sun Hive. I also wear no veil and avoid the use of chemicals with varroa treatments. Where do I find a plan to construct this work of art?
+Candida Crusher useless beehive useless people religious cult of some sort and you sound a little nutty yourself
+Candida Crusher Sorry for late response. There are some fairly useful descriptions how to make the hive in the book "Sunhive", but to get a really good result one really needs to attend a workshop, as the wooden interiors are very precisely engineered, and the hive parts are woven over moulds which form part of the workshop equipment. Please have a look at these pages on the NBKT website www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/#!sun-hive/c10d6; there is also a fb group called "Sunhives in the World". Thank you for your interest in this beautiful creation by bee master Günther Mancke.
+Candida Crusher Thank you for your kind comments
+slinger777 We are fairly sure that you are not in a position to assess this hive, as people of your ilk are not given access to our workshops. We use our intuition to screen them out.
+naturalbeekeeping “Sunhivebees” trust well said
Looks like a scene from The Wicker Man ;-)
Dear Sir - my only involvement with swarming is to watch out for swarms and re-home them. Freedom of disease is something to be aimed for.
You are right - the sun hive takes us in new directions, interesting ones!
What needs change urgently are current styles of beekeeping - many of them unworthy of the creature "Bee". You will agree that the present state of bees is telling. Best wishes to you in the directions you may be taking.
This is super awesome...I wish I could get away with such a wonderful hive design but the American beekeeping establishment would make me get rid of it if they found out...
That is so sad. No wonder many people decide to remain incognito #civildisobedience
Why would they make you get rid of it
in the US, Big Ag and Big Beekeeping Organizations have placed into law, that even wild honeybees living naturally in trees on a property is against the law. All honeybees must live in a store bought movable frame hive box.@@Sabrina-rn9dn
We apologise for leaving these questions open during this 5 min video, but you will find them all answered to your satifaction on the sun hive related pages on the website of the.naturalbeekeepingtrust. In light of the bees' situation today the hive represents not just a step, rather a leap in the right direction.
Use whichever hive you wish dear lady and watch whichever youtube video you wish!
This is a lovely aesthetically pleasing hive, and clearly, perfectly suitable for the bees. Is this a hive that is not intended to be harvested or exploited in any way, and with the intention being solely for the welfare of the bees ?
This a breeding hive for varroa mites so they can infect all the neighboring hives within 5 miles or more.
@@FloryJohann what makes you say that
not true... check out Biodynamic Beekeeping, where they have only 15% losses per year vs what you learn from Big Ag.@@FloryJohann
great marketing quote ! wow.
As i must agree Bees do need are help i can't see how this hive does that. this is just my view, what i would like to know is how do you treat your bees for Verroa, Nosema, EFB, AFB, or is it a case of just leave them to it? which would lead to the loss of the hive completely I have kept bees for 25 years and I'm always looking for new and better ways to keep, help bees I'm struggling to see how this helps?
Look into Biodynamic Beekeeping...they have about 15% losses per year with their bee centric beekeeping practices...unlike what you will learn from your local Ag exstinsion or local beekeeping club in the US.
Please check the relevant pages on our site.
This would have been a much better YT with far more explanation of what the devil was going on Does that cloth have to be changed every 4 days? If so that's going to turn into a pain very quickly. This video seems to miss it's own points which was it appeared to explain why we should all go for this type of hive over the more wildly used ones I came here after watching this woman on Countryfile. But didn't learn a single thing. In all honesty and I am no more convinced than before I watched this
this hive looks completely unpractical how do you check for swarming, disease, how does the colony grow as there doesn't seem to be any room for bees to grow which in tern is crawl for bees. I think this is a step in the wrong direction for beekeepers and should be approached with caution. but all that said each to there own
What is the point of this hive? You cant extract honey without killing the lavrvas. It looks quite primitive.
keeping bees and producing honey are two different things. One puts bees in direct harms way, pollinating everything under the sun, glysophosphates included. the other is a very beautiful thing.
commercial honey production is like any other congestion of species. disease is more likely to spread, making it harder to contain. Only the best commercial keepers can impact this, and breed resistant colonies(hauke Honey). Maybe you need to invest in some queens, that be the case. most every other commercial productions are a bunch of hillbillies, trying to monetize on the magnificent creature, killing colony after colony after colony, wondering "huh, bees don't know how to live" when the reality is, you don't know how to breed your own strains. k thanks and this video was refreshing.
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i've been part of a commercial operation of 2 thousand plus hives for a few years. not sure who you are, but i'm sure if you are commercial, you just want a silver bullet. first fumaglin then it was amitraz now oxcallic.
but hey, the buggers have thrived for thousands of years before so what do i know?
btw....your is possessive of the object you. as in "your grammar is shit."
you were lookin' for you're as in "you're going to school one way or the other."
And you are astoundingly polite. Do not overexert yourself, please :)
Are you extracting honey or wax? if not then I dont see any use for this other then keeping bees for pets. which is ok but your not getting anything other then pets out of it.
Jeremy Burr We love the bees, call that what you wish:)
+Jeremy Burr (Kannthus) Gardens benefit greatly by having bee's and is becoming a growing trend in home gardening. So some people just have bee's simply to make their gardens boom. So they aren't getting honey but their fruits are yielding huge gains.
So honey, or wax are not all bee's yield.
That's so true, I was asked not all that long ago why *I* wanted bees. I said only to keep the bees happy & make my flowers bloom. You see, I have loads of beautiful flowers planted but not many bees or butterflies. So if I could have my own bees well then, I'd have even more flowers. Which I'd enjoy even more. Along with the joys of having bees too!
Thank you for these comments; and let's be optimistic, the numbers of us simple bee-loving people is growing, and the number of those that consider that we keep bees only for what we get out of them is shrinking, and in time, the world will be a better place.
With best wishes
Heidi Herrmann, NBKT
When I started there was no bee around, which I found out after I set sugar water out.
Honey and wax is a reward. You can watch bees fly in and out of the hive and that is relaxing itself.
There are benefits in raw untainted honey.
The new thing is sting therapy for different things.
The wax can be used for healthy things and to make candles that ionize the air and does not put pollution into your home like any other candle would do.
Did I say something? Alrighty then... Nvm. I'm just trying to understand this concept more clearly....
Try our website. CZcams commentary rarely leads to understanding of concepts. And what do you mean my mixed messages? Do you have a sunhive?
Naturalbeekeeping Trust No but I would like to. I was more interested in beekeeping for the sake of helping restore the dying honeybee population. It is just that a little honey treat would be nice every once in a while, that's all. :) Yes, I will visit your site!