Bees are a honey and money making business, and business is in a bit of slump. Although bees have been threatened by many outside factors, a man has developed a new type of artificial beehive, and what could be the key to helping failing bee colonies get back on their in feet, as well as increasing the number of people beekeeping professionally. If bees are the keys to keeping plants pollinated, and the ecosystem balanced, then the beekeeper Roland Reed’s Modern Top Beehive Bar could be the key to keeping bees alive for generations of colonies to come.
How can technology be better than that created by bees themselves?
There are somewhere around 20,000 known species of bee in the world, and they have been buzzing around since about the early cretaceous period. Bees lived relatively uninhibited lives until human interference began to threaten their existence.
Climate change from CO2 emissions, land development encroaching on established bee habitats, and harmful pesticides all threaten the population of bees in the world. The modern top beehive bar is simple in terms of design, but ingenious in practice, “the principle is simple: a box with sticks across the top, to which bees attach their comb. My hives have low, central, side entrances, sloping sides and a pair of follower boards to enclose the colony. There are many variations on this theme and all have the essential guiding principle of simplicity and construction and of management.” The creation of this new beehive bar design allows an unparalleled level of ease for beekeepers, and a new design to change the way bees make honey in hives.
The future of beekeeping
Humans have been collecting honey from bees for the last 15,000 years, and in the U.S. alone there are around 100,000 beekeepers. Due to declining numbers in bees, and decreased interest in beekeeping, anything to draw interested parties in, and keep their bees healthy is essential to the continuation of bees and humans alike. Thanks to inventions as innovative as the modern top bar bee, we can see a resurgence of bees in our lifetime, even with all the outside factors that threaten modern bees of the world.
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