DIY Filing Cabinet Honey Bee Hive

Homeschool DIY Project:

Upcycled 1971 Steelcase Filing Cabinet converted into a Wild HoneyBee Hive // Proud of you son… Great job and can’t wait to meet your new tenants when they move in // The lost Art of Industrial Arts in schools

We found a swarm today and transferred them into the hive 03/02/15

Yahooooooo! Mahalo @auntie_sugar for your keen eye and letting us know about the wild swarm at #Wailuku #PostOffice today. We got these #honeybees and their #Queen home safely and moved into Harrison’s #Homeschool #DIY #FilingCabinet #Hive. We hope they move in for the longterm // #Wild #Maui #Honey #NoSuits Only 2 stings transferring them to the hive.

A video posted by Tim Fernandes-Parsons (@adoboloco) on Mar 2, 2015 at 6:54pm PST

6 replies on “DIY Filing Cabinet Honey Bee Hive“

Cristy Camero

November 23, 2020 at 4:46 am

I think this will be very hot on summer.is it still ok for the bee to stay their in summer time?

Tim Parsons

November 23, 2020 at 7:28 pm

Please see previous comments for an update on this. In Hawaii we have trade winds and in the shade it would stay cool.

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Melanie Spozio

January 20, 2018 at 3:46 pm

Did you try rubbingor spraying it down with some kind of organic oil to keep it from sticking?

Tim Parsons

January 20, 2018 at 5:04 pm

We did, but we were told the wax build up would be pretty thick. We didn’t want to damage the hive once the establish.

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Caleb

June 17, 2017 at 1:55 am

Did this work

Tim

June 20, 2017 at 5:52 pm

It did… but you’ll need to figure out a way to open for harvesting if they’ve sealed off the drawers. We ended up transferring the hive to a standard box system. This way we didn’t disturb the bees as much during harvest.

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