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The Cathedral Hive is a top volume hive with a high potential honey manufacturing.

By Corwin Bell

I inquired myself several years ago, what would increase the existing top bar hive designs. I thought, “If I could ask the bees just what hive design they might like, just what is the ultimate hive for them to thrive within? exactly what would they do say about its building?”

One of the main design requirements that we held tight to during the design procedure for the Cathedral Hive had been, just how do we develop a hive that may weather the latest climate!? The environmental anomalies that individuals are actually experiencing and those into the future to come, are and certainly will continue to influence our bees survivability. should not we commence to check out the near future to discover if there is one thing we are able to innovate in hive styles that will assist the bee colony survive extreme changes in conditions additionally the new seasonal changes which are happening?

After a long and challenging design and prototyping phase the Cathedral Hive is born.

I believe that this is just one of the biggest advances in bee centric hive styles to materialize in a really long-time. The look procedure had been rather unique in that we included “input” through the bees. We create design requirements in a way that allowed the bees to demonstrate choice. We then carefully adjusted the hive design and its own' functions to aid the way we noticed the bees answering the structure with regards to nest-building habits.

Over the last 5 years we allow bees regulate how the hive was created. We made a few hives each year being test numerous variables and modifications and then by observing exactly how bees interacted aided by the customization, we modified the design. With each consecutive hive we made, we often included or abandoned the earlier adjustment according to the response from the bees.

This spring we started several swarms into the most recent Cathedral Hive design. It had been heartening as well as the same time astonishing the way the bees built out these new Cathedral Hives. We watched very carefully while the bees interacted with this redesigned vacation passages and top bar air flow slots.

Corwin and Bee Guardians seeing the Cathedral Hive combs

Three sided hexagonal top club framework
-Allows for superior brush stability
-Greater possibility right brush
-Zero to no attachment