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A recent thread entitled "Hive Feeding System" got me thinking...and remembering.
What hive hardware or furniture can you remember that was around for awhile and now gone? What management techniques were popular and now no longer practiced?
I remember one piece of beekeeping hardware that was advertised back in the 70's, that supposedly stopped swarming. The "No Swarm Cluster Frames" were advertised for years in every bee magazine. They were similar in shape to a follower board, but had slots to allow bees to pass through. They looked a bit like a plastic queen excluder, but hung vertically, one between each comb in the broodnest.
I inherited a box of them from somebody long forgotten. I don't know anyone who ever used them, and I've never used them...they're in my museum.
What hive hardware or furniture can you remember that was around for awhile and now gone? What management techniques were popular and now no longer practiced?
I remember one piece of beekeeping hardware that was advertised back in the 70's, that supposedly stopped swarming. The "No Swarm Cluster Frames" were advertised for years in every bee magazine. They were similar in shape to a follower board, but had slots to allow bees to pass through. They looked a bit like a plastic queen excluder, but hung vertically, one between each comb in the broodnest.
I inherited a box of them from somebody long forgotten. I don't know anyone who ever used them, and I've never used them...they're in my museum.