A new invention by two Australian beekeepers is claimed to be able to siphon honey straight from a beehive without opening the lid or disturbing the bees inside. When a tap attached to a specifically ...

Many people around the world gather honey from their own beehives. The process of gathering the honey normally requires lots of effort and stress on the gatherer and the bees. A new type of honey ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Humans have been keeping bees for thousands of years. The process of extracting honey from hives has ...

In 2015, a magnificently clever invention by two Australian beekeepers turned into a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign, raising over US$2 million dollars in just its first 24 hours. The genius ...

Stuart and Cedar Anderson come from a long line of beekeeping, but the father and son duo are revolutionizing the beekeeping world with their own invention, the Flow Hive. The innovative beehive lets ...

The realization that there had to be a better way to extract honey from hives came to Cedar Anderson around 10 years ago after a particularly messy and disruptive attempt to extract honey that ...

Unprocessed, single-frame honey allows for greater flavour retention, according to Flow Hive CEO Cedar Anderson, who told FoodNavigator his invention is adding value to the boutique honey market. Flow ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Flow Hive is a beehive with a special design which gives you honey on tap. It works using frames with partly formed honeycomb cells which then split into channels to ...

Going down: a droplet of honey in a superhydrophobic coated tube. (Courtesy: Aalto University) Honey and other highly viscous fluids can flow faster than water in specially coated capillary tubes.