Thermosolar Hive – Further Answers & Video
Conversations With Beekeepers
I am really interested and open-minded about this hive. As a result I have engaged in conversations with the Thermosolar Hive team, beekeeping forums and leading honeybee experts to see what others think.
In summary, some beekeepers are hopeful and others are sceptical. Some are very happy that inventors are looking at ways of combatting varroa without chemicals and some have concerns it will harm the brood or sufficiently heat the brood to kill the varroa. I asked the Thermosolar Hive team about the concerns on harming brood and have added this to the expanded Q&A in the original Thermosolar Hive post. There is also a video below of the frames holding together perfectly at 47C.
My key takeaway from all the conversations is the same as Professor Ratnieks, Labatory of Apiculture & Social Insects (LASI), leading expert on honeybees. He needs to see the published University research and evidence before being more convinced by this new hive.
The research and paper have been produced by Palacky University in cooperation with University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. The article has been finished and is now in the review phase. It should be ready later in 2016.
Four Minute Video By Jan Rája
Jan is a keen beekeeper and has been working closely with Roman for 16 years. More about Jan here. He has kindly made a special 4 minute video, below, for the readers of this blog if you would like to watch a video summary of the Thermosolar hive.
This video defaults to a small size on my blog, but there is a button to expand the view.
Interesting Videos On Thermosolar Hive website
When I get interested in something I like to dig into it. Understand it. The videos below are indeed exciting in the results they appear to deliver. The videos are good demonstrations of the hive in action. Despite my excitement, the videos are anecdotal and we need to see the results of the University research.
This video demonstrates no varroa on brood of Thermosolar Hive:
This video demonstrates hive in action and no impact on wax and frames:
This video demonstrates 100% higher yield of honey production:
Read More
- Thermosolar Hive Guide – this is my ultimate page on this hive. I now own two!