Here’s an interesting conceptual design, at least aesthetically, for an indoor/”urban” beehive. It has several flaws, but I like that people are at least thinking about this kind of thing.
The article posits:
Indoor beehives also seem unlikely to get past health and safety checks - what happens if the bees get loose?
I know someone with an indoor observation hive, so it’s not as if this is illegal or something. What if someone’s pet constrictor chokes them to death? It’s the risk you take keeping animals of any dangerous sort in your home.
Other issues regarding the pollen situation here:
- one little flowering plant won’t really sustain a full hive of bees
- bees in a high-rise building being kept in a hive like this are likely to abandon it
- bees in an urban environment are going to have a hell of a time finding pollen once they exhaust your little flowerpot plant there
- how are you going to water that plant if it’s on the outside of your high-rise window?
Overall this reminds me of those poorly designed fish tanks that are meant to be works of art more than functioning habitats, but this design for a beehive is at least allowing the bees access to the outside and providing additional usable habitat for these insects (who, if you’ve been keeping up with the news, are having a really rough time in the US lately).
