What is it about?
This article describes a novel form of beehive, which is compatible with traditional log hive methods of beekeeping in Africa, and elsewhere. A summary version of the Bee World article appears in The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/lessons-from-africa-on-how-to-build-resilient-bee-colonies-131478
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Why is it important?
The Agave log hive appeals to bee activists and keepers who wish to return to more natural practices and forms of beekeeping. Among the attractions of this hive, both aesthetic and functional, are the organics of the logs and their typically distended, indeed pregnant shape that outwardly suggests the living organism inside (Figure 1). The hive will interest Darwinian and natural beekeeping people as well as workers in the bees for development sector. But the biggest endorsement comes from the bees, exercising their selective choice to colonize these hives.
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Why I developed the Agave hive is a personal story. My experience is consonant with growing concern for pollinators. What for me is personal and subjective does attain a level of objectivity, increasingly backed by science (Baldock et al., 2015; Kluser, Neumann, Chauzat, & Pettis, 2010).
Neil Rusch
University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies
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This page is a summary of: Agave Honey Bee Log Hive: A Response to Pollinator Stress and a Move towards Darwinian and Natural Methods of Beekeeping, Bee World, November 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0005772x.2019.1681872.
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