Cool and crazy beehives

[fatshark]

Nellie beat me to it ... SWMBO would need to approve of an observation hive in the garden*. On the assumption she might, I'll be very interested to see how your hive develops.

* not out of the question as there are two mini nucs and a six frame poly there at the moment ...

[Neils]

I've copied the posts regarding Beekeeping in Germany into a separate thread. Rather than delete the posts here and having people wondering if they're going mad I thought I'd leave them be and hope that the conversation just drifts organically back to looking at "cool" beehives

[Jon]

Not a man made hive and probably at least 1000 years old but this one is definitely cool.



I came across it last Sunday in Atlimeyaya, Mexico.

The tree is an Ahuehuete.

ahuehuete-bee-tree.jpg

I should also point out that this is definitely Apis mellifera Sp. as I managed to get stung while taking a photo.
The bees were a bit darker than most you see in Mexico which tend to be based on Ligustica.
There was a second colony in the same tree as well.

[Calum]

unexpected on this site, but nice ideas