TEMPLATE 4

BEEHIVES

AUDIO FILE

Welcome

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TEMPLATE 4

Welcome to the Template 4 Hives

The Template 4 has BeesMax bee hives installed on the roof top, supporting the crucial rehoming programme from BeesMax. The hives also provides a resource for the local community to learn about the life of bees, the programmes in place to support the regeneration of the bee population in the UK, and how their existence plays a crucial role in our lives.

GETTING INVOLVED
Three people from Template 4 business with bee suits on taking a look at the honeybee hive that is on their land.

The hives at Template 4

Since the original installation the BeesMAX honeybees at Template 4 has become a really important feature on the BeesMAX calendar and we’d like to thank all the key stakeholders who have championed this through to completion.

There is so much that can be learned by staff going the distance and putting on specialist beekeeping PPE and observing the interior of a colony.

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Further Information

BeesMAX have organised some exciting beekeeping events to be held at a variety of locations where BeesMAX has hives located. Contact BeesMAX below if you’d like to be informed of all their upcoming events.

GETTING INVOLVED

Audio Files

We will be updating the audio files regularly to keep you updated with what is happening in the hives.

Sound of bees

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Buying Template 4 Honey

Every pot of Template 4 honey sold raises money that goes directly back in to support the rewilding project.

Sound of bees

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Want to be involved?

We very much want to spread the word and increase the number of rewilding hives across the UK. Please take a listen to hear how you can get involved.

Sound of bees

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An insight into our bees

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Video Playlist

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Archive Photos – Template 4

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Three people from Template 4 business with bee suits on taking a look at the honeybee hive that is on their land.

A close up of the base of a honeybee hive with two holes showing bees going in and out of the holes.

A close up of the entrance at the bottom of a wooden hive with some bees hovering at the entrance and some going in.

An aparist with protective bee clothing and gloves on checking the inside of a honeybee hive box full of slats and bees.

An aparist holding a slat from a honeybee hive taking a close inspection as he holds the slat in both hands.

A close up of a slat from a honeybee hive showing the bees and the honeycomb.

Aparist holding a slat with honeybees all over the honeycomb in the slat.

Watch OUR LIVESTREAM

This beehive camera shows a live stream of the honeybee colony every day, 24 hours throughout the year.  Notice the clock inset displaying UK local time. Even at night the honeybees can be seen resting but still moving around.

Viewing the livestream

Get in touch

There are various facilities for you to use so please explore the time lapse clips on the left side bar. Expand to view full screen by first hovering over the bottom bar and then clicking various on the bottom right-hand side.

Latest

Over the winter this honeybee colony has survived very well and you can see several thousand in the cluster beginning to organise themselves to initiate spring breeding. The queen will probably start to lay eggs in early March.

BeesMAX and Arnia IT

Arnia is a company, like BeesMAX, concerned with bee health, but from a more technical standpoint. They have developed technology that goes into a hive and records data that is sent back to the beekeeper.

A graph showing information from the arnia system inside a honeybee hive, including the changes of the weight of the hive across a month, with the option to also see the temperature of the hive.

Arnia IT inside a hive

Sensors are fitted inside the hive in order to monitor the colony’s behaviour and these statistics are then sent, via a gateway, to the user’s devices, allowing them to better understand their own bees. The data collected can be compared across different hives using the same technology.

Our mission

So why Arnia?

The Arnia system opens up a whole world of educational opportunities and provides a more in-depth experience.

It is unique in combining colony acoustics monitoring with brood temperature, hive humidity, hive weight and apiary weather to provide detailed insight into hive conditions and bee behaviour. No other system provides this richness of data.

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Arnia monitoring system attached to battery inside the wooden honeybee hive.

The Arnia IT system in action

Through the use as part of our Honeybee Rewilding Scheme, we aim to provide depleted wild colonies with a new habitat in which the bees can reorganise and restructure. As well as placing these in woodland areas, they also offer schools, individuals and businesses the opportunity to install hives on their sites to support the rewilding of our honeybee colonies.

Host A Hive

How to support Template 4’s honeybee conservation

There are a number of ways friends of Template 4 can support the school hives with the honeybee rewilding conservation project. Take a peek below and let us know how you’d like to help.

Join An Event

Join an event hosted by Template and learn about the urban rewilding project on the rooftop.

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Template 4 Honey

Every pot of Template 4 honey sold raises money that goes directly back in to support the rewilding project.

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Host Your Own Hive

Hosting your own hive will help us build the conservation corridor to help support our bees. Help us increase the number of conservation hives.

Find out more

Contact BeesMAX

Contact us for further information about hives at Template 4, upcoming events, or hosting your own hive.