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Wow, it's like a Termitat for bee keepers

Started By OhNoNotAgain , Jul 30 2020 9:26 PM

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#1 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted July 30 2020 - 9:26 PM

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https://beecosystem.buzz

 

Beecosystem has a modular indoor viewable beehive with a pipe to get the bees outside. It's seriously like a wall-mounted Termitat, but for bees.

 

Saw it via this Facebook post: https://www.facebook...?type=3


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Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)

Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive);  Lasius sp.

 

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen

Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa

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#2 Offline TechAnt - Posted July 30 2020 - 9:45 PM

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https://beecosystem.buzz
 
Beecosystem has a modular indoor viewable beehive with a pipe to get the bees outside. It's seriously like a wall-mounted Termitat, but for bees.
 
Saw it via this Facebook post: https://www.facebook...?type=3

Looking at the face book post, I can only imagine if the glass broke / nest fell..
My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#3 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 31 2020 - 2:58 AM

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Looks awesome!


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#4 Offline FSTP - Posted February 22 2021 - 4:10 AM

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I wonder if anyone got one and how they're doing. Seems kinda crazy. 


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#5 Offline Manitobant - Posted February 22 2021 - 7:35 AM

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I wonder if something similar would work for wasps. Imagine a glass window box with a huge vespula colony in it.

Edited by Manitobant, February 22 2021 - 7:35 AM.

My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#6 Offline Chickalo - Posted February 22 2021 - 7:55 AM

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I would get one, but not sure if my mum would appreciate waking up one morning and seeing a box full of bees...


Edited by Chickalo, February 22 2021 - 7:55 AM.

シグナチャーです。예.

 

#7 Offline gcsnelling - Posted February 22 2021 - 4:07 PM

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These have been around for many years. They are in my opinion far to small to be anything but a novelty item.


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