Honey on tap great Aussie invention

Originally posted by Tinhopper ↑

Well yes it does seem a great novel idea.

And yes it should be able to work on a small scale for the hobbyist in their back yard.
This is the only market it would be designed and aimed for, the feel good person who thinks they are a nature lover and are doing the environment a great service. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Please allow me to explain why this is my view.

Firstly there is more to producing honey than simply sticking a hive in your back yard and hey presto, in a few weeks your filling jars of golden honey like it is going out of fashion.
The main concern is disease. Yes bees get diseases, and lots off them compared with even 20 or 30 years ago. Now what happens when one of these feel good crusaders finds that his hive is very week and not producing much honey. He probably will just loose interest and forget about it which is where the real drama starts, ie hives have to be maintained to remain healthy. Bees are just like any other live stock.
Now the weakened hive maybe has a brood disease, which is why it is very weak. Take your pick from at least half a dozen ranging from easily treatable to having to burn the entire hive and bees. This would American foul brood.
The hive cannot defend itself from bees from another colony and it gets robbed out and the disease is then spread to the robbers hive. The same process will keep continuing to other colonies in a 4 klm flying distance of an infected hive. So it does not take too long for a whole area to become infected. This would devastate the bee industry.

Now there is not only diseases one must watch for when keeping bees. There is also wax moths, Small hive beetle and a range of mites to contest with. Imagine when Varroa mite gets into this country, currently the only country in the world that is free from it. If their are heaps of hobbyists and back yard wannabees out their who do not know anything about the care and maintenance of bees, then the bee keeping industry in this country will suffer very dire consequences.

All bee hives in Australia must be registered, so please if you are looking to get a hive or 2, by all means go for it, but you are and must be responsible for it. Join a hobbyist bee keeping club first to learn what you need to know.

There are other reasons why this invention will not be a commercial success but the main one i wanted to share is the important disease factor.

Regards The Tinhopper

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