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Offline icra

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A hive with water??
« on: March 23, 2005, 02:52:25 pm »


Do you use this kind of hive! Do you have plans, or can you explain how (from where) the bees drink the water.
In my country we dont use this kind of hive.

Please explain, is very important.

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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2005, 03:51:03 pm »
Looks like a Langstroth hive with a bordman entrance feeder. I have no idea what the plastic thing on top of the outter cover is! :shock:
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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2005, 03:52:57 pm »
I'm intrested in the bordman entrance feeder!

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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2005, 04:13:57 pm »
But how the bee drink the water. What is inside the mechanism. Can you do a drawing! It's a holey hood and the water drop inside? It is efficient?

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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2005, 04:25:24 pm »
It is a glass jar with a lid screwed on top of it. The lid has many tiny holes poked in it for the water to come through. The jar is turned upsidown, and the feeder holds it up so the bees can crawl in and under the lid to drink the water through the tiny holes. :D
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2005, 06:30:13 pm »
You forgot to tell her that the sucktion is what keeps the water from dripping out. bye :D
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2005, 06:58:40 pm »
They're very easy to make too.

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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2005, 07:30:57 pm »
The white thinggy on the top looks like a cap on a PVC pipe. Is there an article to go with the picture? I wonder if someone put in-hive plumbing.
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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2005, 07:34:14 pm »
I'm thinking that thing on top is for ventilation - like a ventilation cap on a home.

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« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2005, 07:41:41 pm »
I have seen that pvc cap somewhere and I am shure it is a vent, bye :D
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2005, 01:03:18 am »
I think someone took it off of something else and rested it on top of the hive and then forgot to remove it before taking the picture!! :lol:
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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2005, 01:38:56 am »
I have a feeder that has a pcv fill pipe looks some thing like what is in that pic.

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« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2005, 03:10:34 am »
It's a feeder and has sugar water in it, not just water.
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« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2005, 08:26:13 am »
Quote from: Horns Pure Honey
You forgot to tell her that......


I'm a male :D!

Here is the link with the feeder: http://www.beecare.com/Hardware/Top-Cover.htm

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« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2005, 08:36:43 am »
Here is where it tells what the pipe on top is for;

http://www.beecare.com/indexDynFrames.htm?http://www.beecare.com/Feeding/Feeding.htm&1

The watering is just the jar you see on the front. The jar is turned up side down and sits in the holder on the bottom front of the hive. There is a space left between the bottom of the holder and the lid of the jar. The lid has holes in it and the bees will crawl into the space and get water when they need it.

How ever I have read many places that bees prefer dirty water, straight from the mud.
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« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2005, 05:08:56 pm »
Sorry, lol, must have missed that part, sorry again, bye :oops:  :lol:  :D
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« Reply #17 on: April 21, 2005, 11:37:56 pm »
and the upper part is for suger water feeding
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« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2005, 04:17:59 pm »
The thing on top is definitely for feeding sugar syrup. I've seen those in person when I got my nuc box from a big-time apiary.