1. As Susan said; collecting the honey is messy and involved. Besides, can you imagine opening this thing in your kitchen and removing a frame covered with hundreds of bees?
2. It’s big enough for a starter colony, or maybe a colony of Asian bees (Apis cerana), but this will cause European honeybees to swarm. Even if the bees stay, there won’t be enough space for them to store honey in excess of what they need to eat during winter.
3. Bees don’t like light in their hives. Light in the hive means there’s a hole in the wall. Too much light makes the bees swarm.
4. The entrance is too small. During the summer there is very high traffic at the entrance and a little tube like that is too narrow.
5. No ventilation means overheating (especially if it’s hanging on a window) and problems with condensation (and the mold that comes along with it).
6. I’ve never heard of bees building honeycomb on a slant. They always build it vertically. I don’t know if they would accept the diagnal frames in this hive.

But, like I said, it’s beautiful.

Naturaly I was most distressed. Besides being highly allergic to bee stings. I really did not want the responsibility and potential problems of bees stinging my workers or myself.

But Annas was very happy about this bee hive. He ensured me that he and his father would remove the hive with no problems what so ever.
He took a bucket and wet the inside of the bucket and then sprinkled sugar inside the bucket to attract the bees. He then very carefully placed this bucket as close as he could to the hive.

A few hours later all the bees had settled them selves very nicely in the bucket, doing what bees do in a bucket that had sugar all over the insides of it.

He then took a piece of plastic and string. And very carefully covered the top of the bucket, tied the plastic down securely, by this time his Anas’es father Hatam, had arrived to remove the bucket and bees. They then put the hive very carefully into the trunk of his car and drove off, back to Jericho.