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Drone Flight Box
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Drones are notoriously fragile and will die for no apparant
reason if they are out of contact with worker bees and brood. For
this reason I have taken the design of the flight box a stage further
than previous versions.
To keep the drones "happy" my cage is fitted directly onto
a 5 frame nucleus box and the "floor" of the cage is of 8 mesh,
although 6 mesh may be even better for this purpose (untried) The
cage is fitted with a 15 Watt "pygmy" lamp to provide heat and light
and this lamp is shrouded by a screw topped honey jar to aviod the
drones damaging themselves on the hot lamp and to avoid burns to the
operator. The bees also provide a certain amount of heat and variable
ventilation is provided in the base of the nuc box to avoid
overheating.
Detail of lamp
Elasticated curtains with transparent panels
Proposed mesh cages for drone transport inside flight box.
Generated... 23 October 2001
Modified... 14 February 2002