Flow Hive keepers in Sri Lanka

[Dawn_SD]

Welcome to the Flow forum.

@Sudarshana_Sampath

I am also considering the size of a bee and whether Asian bees like to fill Flow frames with nectar or not.

There is a very active Japanese beekeeper who has a Flow frame setup with an Apis cerana colony. They may not be the indica sub-species, but that shouldn’t matter. If he has success, I think you could too.

Success story from Japan with Japan's native honey bees, Apis Cerana

[image] I succeeded in harvesting from my DIY JHB-Flow Hive (downsized Flow Hive for Japan’s native honey bees) on May 22, 2018. The JHB-Flow Hive is a hybrid bee box of a traditional pile box (as a brood box) and a Flow box (as a Flow Super). The Flow box has five half-long Flow frames. In three weeks all Flow Frames were capped after the Flow box sit on top of the filled-up brood box. Win-win Harvesting time (per frame) was less than ten minutes. The harvested honey is 0.7~0.9L/frame and is …