Beekeeping or apiculture is the breeding of honeybees and
maintenance of beehives for their honey and other products that the hive
produces. Honey has several health benefits which include preventing cancer and
heart disease, reducing ulcer and other gastrointestinal disorders, blood sugar
regulation, strengthening the immune system etc., but despite these benefits, honey collection from beehives
remains a daunting exercise as it involves tedious processes like suiting up,
smoking the bees, cracking the hive open, lifting out the frames, sweeping off
the bees, transporting the frames to honey shed etc., and these comes with high
safety hazards such as stings from bees, burns from smoking etc.
Flow-hive is a revolutionary beehive invention, which enables a beekeeper to harvest warm and fresh honey without opening the beehive and minimal disturbance to the bees. It is a special design which gives honey on tap. It works using frames with partly formed honeycomb cells which then split into channels to let the honey flow down. Flow was born from a desire to help bees and beekeepers alike, so that harvesting honey would be less of a disruption to the hive, and less of an arduous task for the beekeeper.
The Flow frame consists of already partly formed honeycomb cells.
The bees complete the comb with their wax, fill the cells with honey and cap
the cells as usual. When the tool is turned a bit like a tap, the cells split
vertically inside the comb forming channels allowing the honey to flow down to
a sealed trough at the base of the frame and out of the hive while the bees are
practically undisturbed on the comb surface.
When the honey has finished draining and the tap is again turned
in the upper slot, it resets the comb into the original position and allows the
bees to chew the wax capping away, and fill it with honey again.
Through the clear end-frame view, you can see when the honey
is ready without opening up the hive. This revolutionary flow system makes the
honey extraction process far less stressful for the bees and so much easier for
the beekeeper.
How the flow-hive works?
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