# Flow Hive Controversy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beekeeping - Basics\ **Created:** [January 16, 2016, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/flow-hive-controversy/4688 "2016-01-16T11:58:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Melinda\_Taylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@Melinda\_Taylor](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Melinda_Taylor)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/flow-hive-controversy/4688/1 "2016-01-16T11:58:47Z")
This is an email I have just sent to Flow. I am interested in other opinions and responses to my question below. /////// I read about this invention in the virgin blue magazine on my flight in december to visit my family for christmas. I was so excited. Always wanted to raise my own bees and eat some made honey. This seemed to make it all so easy. I did not grab the name so googled something like “bees hive byron bay flow tap”. I got to your site but also found so many negative links to your invention. More so than positive ones. I feel so saddenend as my uneducated understanding seemed to resonate with the cases against your invention. I was hoping to find some of your responses to these concerns in your faq but there does not seem to be a discussion. I am interested and open to your responses to the concerns raised in these sites. One such site is below. > **[Flow Hive: 3 Reasons to Avoid It At All Costs | Honeycolony](https://www.honeycolony.com/article/against-flow-hive/)** > > Have you heard of the Flow Hive? It's supposed to be the best thing to happen to beekeeping but it has huge problems that could make our bee problems worse. Kindest Regards, Melinda ---
**Author:** ![Faroe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/faroe/32/11835_2.png) [@Faroe](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Faroe)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/flow-hive-controversy/4688/2 "2016-01-16T12:40:36Z")
Split this topic on January 16, 2016, 12:40pm UTC 2 posts were merged into an existing topic: [How do I answer this criticism/concern about the Flow Hive](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/how-do-i-answer-this-criticism-concern-about-the-flow-hive/1206) ---
**Author:** ![Faroe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/faroe/32/11835_2.png) [@Faroe](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Faroe)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/flow-hive-controversy/4688/3 "2016-01-16T12:40:36Z")
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