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Eco-Hive stand
•The Eco-Hive Stand is designed for an apiary of 10/11 hives.
•It has been designed as Honey Badger friendly. i.e. a Honey Badger cant get to the hives and the badger is not trapped or poisoned.
•Baboons and other wildlife will not disturb the hives easily as they are securely strapped to the stand.
•Branches can be inserted in-between hives to prevent drifting.
•Beekeepers can walk in between the hives on the stand when inspecting their hives.
•The stand takes 5 minutes to assemble and are very space efficient for transporting.
•The stand is very cost effective - ZAR 1600 for 10/11 hives.

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• beekeeping
• hive stands
• hive stand
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• Africa

[DubulaStubbs]

Didn't they use robotic bees to film the bedroom scenes in 'The Bee Movie'? Maybe you should inquire how they dealt with propolis. Surely with a robotic bee you don't need to simulate the exact structure of the eye and a simple 4 lens system (with conventional motor car wipers (sized to fit of course)) would be simpler and more cost effective.

[magprob]

Really. I wasn't aware that the Lesser Spotted Honey Giraffes would stoop so low as to imitate the death head moth. I knew they would queen quack but I never caught one doing so. I remain vigilant, camera ready.

[DubulaStubbs]

It would be wonderful if you could capture this photographically! Researchers have only managed to collect data about this peculiar phenomena by disguising MASICDs (micro automated spy information collecting devices) as drones but have still not managed to record it photographically or videographically.

[DubulaStubbs]

Furthermore this kind of activity has only been recorded near African Honey Bee hive stands - apparently because they are not only honey badger and hippopotamus friendly (i.e. you don't need to kill the honey badgers and hippopotamus' when they try to impersonate the giraffe's death head moth imitation to steal honey)

[magprob]

That might keep a Hippopotamus out but I seriously doubt it will keep Giraffes away from the honey. Plus, you may go out there one day to find a Pride of Lions napping underneath it.

[DubulaStubbs]

Interestingly we have found that when giraffes (especially the lesser spotted honey giraffes “girrafie mellifora”) are eating honey (they protrude their long tongs into the hive curled up like a straw and while sucking the honey imitate the death head moth by queen quacking which immobilises the bees), napping lions often benefit from this wonderful symbiosis in nature by lying under the stand, mouths wide open to catch any honey that is spilt.

[beesonthenet]

What a great video, short and too the point, conveys the concept extremely well!

[magprob]

We have had some falures since the real bees propolis the robotic bees to the top bars. We have several thousand hours of the Robotic Bee's glass eyeballs being daubed with propolis.

I feel we will have this problem solved with a new propolis eyeball wiper mechanism. However, it will take time.

[magprob]

Yes, I agree. I am currently working on a Robotic Bee. They maybe the future of Afican Honey Bee surveillance. The project is being funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency and a team of researchers led by Robert Wood from Harvard. We have developed a Robotic bee that does surveillance on Lesser Spotted Honey Giraffe detection.

The wingspan of the Bee is 3cm and a dry weight of 60mgms the Bees robotic parts are made of carbon fibre and polymer.