Propose, Upload, Discuss

Please propose, upload or discuss any new beehive designs below. New approved designs will become part of the Open Source Beehives family and hosted on our site. Creators will be fully recognised by the project.

If you have a proposal to share or skills to contribute, please team up with other members of the community to make your designs a reality. Our team will support you any way we can, but our time is limited. Let us know if you're looking for collaborators and we can help with outreach.

Any designs associated with OSBH must be licensed under a CC-BY-SA Creative Commons license to be considered.

We need a design for conservation of Cerana Bee. the hive needs not have top bars the idea is to create habitat for saving wild bees.

Hi Foundups!

Excellent proposal - I've added it to the to do list. If somebody would like to help Foundups with this, please send him a message!

Anything in the works for Mason or Orchard bee housing? Just a thought.

Swarm traps might also be a great avenue to look to.

Hey @nlk3233 is this what you have in mind? If not you can just copy and paste images in this thread.

I was more orienting this too a design like this. Reason being is that the reeds used are expendable, and must be replaced yearly.
The design above uses a strap to hold the rows together, which is taken off and replaced after the eggs are taken out.

some people use anything they can slap together

or some people use small nuc boxes for swarms too.

I have been invited to host a documentary in October 2014 (next month) on Japanese Giant Wasps for Animal planet and want to showcase and test Apis Cerana Japonica Conservation beehive. I am offering $100+ prize money as an incentive for the design winner. Here is a talk

I like this alot can a cnc router do them?

Ah ok is this what you're talking about @foundups? This is a pretty straight forward design that I'm sure we can CNC cut, potentially without nails or screws. Please post any other pictures on this thread to clarify.

Oh yeah of course. They are very simple. 4 pieces of wood for sides, and bottom and top.

I can make a video... taking about my ideas I guess. But look at the natural Japanese beehives. Western hives and nukes will not work

Hi,
I keep an apiary with Apis cerana in Thailand and invented a beehive design for the tropics. The material cost is about 3 Euro. I work on to reduce labor cost and to start serial production of the beehives for myself and fo sell.
As for the invention, I wrote description and claims but keep it yet out of public as the beehive is in tests and some changes can be done to its best design. I expect I need a year to fulfill the tests.
However, in a year I would appreciate partnership in application for a patent in any country. Donations are not necessary at the moment as we manage ourselves at this stage.
Cheers
Oleg

Hey Hunter,

This sounds interesting! Please bare in mind we are an open source project, which means we do not endorse patents. The hives designed by our team and our community are licensed so anyone can access or change them, build or use them without limitation. This does not mean you can't sell them, just that you can't limit people from building for themselves.

Let us know when you're ready if this sounds like something you're interested in.

Yep this is "OPEN SOURCE" means no IP protection.

Lamello has a interesting system for joining plywood. It uses locking biscuits to join pieces together. I have used this system on several projects and can say that I'm really impressed with it. The biscuit joiner required is expensive but, they also sell a bit for use in a CNC machine which should be more economical. There are some design considerations involved if using with a CNC but I think it could be a good way to produce low cost knock down hives. More info here:
http://www.lamello.com/en/home/join-wood/p-system/system-advantages.html