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At some point several months ago, I stumbled across a video of this Russian guy that does bee stuff. I don't think this is the video, but it's interesting, I'd never seen horizontal bee boxes.

This is a different video of the same guy. He does eventually talk about the horizontal hives. I thought it was very interesting.
http://horizontalhive.com/ <-- his website


I watched a bunch of videos and thought it was interesting that most of the folks in the videos didn't wear any protective gear, no gloves, no hood/hat or use smoke. Most of the folks in the videos were wearing pants and t-shirts. I guess there are times when the bees are more testy and bee people either leave them alone or if they have to may wear some protective gear. I guess certain hives also often may have their own personality.

If we actually do this, my oldest grandson is probably not going to be happy. He seems to have a bee or flying insect phobia. I'd like to think that having bees around may be able to get him over it. The good news is that he's not yet 5, so he's got lots of time.