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Backyard beekeeping in Japan

by Ultramanoid on 7/15/19, 4:22 AM with 17 comments

• by mattpk on 7/16/19, 7:03 PM

  "Whereas refined sugar converts to fat, honey typically converts to energy"

  Come on journalism

• by reaperducer on 7/16/19, 7:05 PM

  I didn't even know that urban beekeeping was a thing outside of hotels and fancy restaurants until recently.

  It turns out there are over 400 registered beekeepers and over 1,700 hives in the Chicago area: https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2019/06/27/city-has-a-be...

• by throw0101a on 7/16/19, 7:24 PM

  Interesting design that's being crowd-funded that has a chimney to reduce human-bee interaction to help with stinging risk:

  * https://kottke.org/19/07/a-small-simple-hive-designed-for-ur...

• by meruru on 7/16/19, 9:07 PM

  >These large mammals are attracted to a hive by not only the honey in the combs, but also a colony’s eggs, larvae and pupae — and even the bees themselves. In one fell swoop, a colony can disappear.

  Wow can you imagine swallowing a bee nest whole? I imagine that must do considerable damage to the stomach.

• by samfriedman on 7/16/19, 1:32 PM

  Pretty sure if I found one of my hives covered in those giant hornets, it would be time to find a new backyard hobby.