Better Foraging with less input. Splitting hive with honey super

1. Native Bee
Keeping
Better Foraging with Less Input

2. Active 2 years
Puerto Princesa City
Beekeepers Club:
Kept Apis Melliferous
in Langstroth Hive.
Refined Sugar Fed Between
Nectar Flow

3. Apis trigona biroi
“Kiyot” The Stingless Bee
in Wood Pile

4. Native Bee Rescue: Apis trigona biroi, Palawan
Conservation of “Kiyot”, The Stingless Bee, Honey Bag Bee
Rescue from wood piles or
farm pales etc.
Transfer to splitting hive with honey
super
Place new hive box to exact
original site and orientation
Split in
12-15 months
O.A.O.T.H.
1
2 3
4
0
5
0. make identical splitting hives
3.1 smudge entrance propolis

5. Malaysian Honey
Bag Comb Frame
with Vacuum
Extraction

6. Cacao flowers

7. O.A.T.H.
OriginalAustralianTrigonaHive

8. O.O.A.T.H.
ObservationOriginalAustralianTrigona
Hive
Hinged cover
Glass plate

9. Kyut or Kiyot
Trigona biroi

20. In ground hive

22. According to Gary Chin, GTCL’s other co-founder, “​Our honey contains only 17% sugar, which
means it’s low-GI. There’s practically no glucose in it; it’s pure fructose, from fruit nectars.
The flavour is generally sweet-sour, but we really like its complexity and rawness.”​

27. Beeponics

28. Current April
2020

29. Next: Top Bar for
Apis Cerena