{"id":33034,"date":"2025-02-07T07:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=33034"},"modified":"2025-02-07T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:44:19","slug":"ces-2025-lifehive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/ces-2025-lifehive\/","title":{"rendered":"CES 2025: Lifehive Chamber and Frames that Kill Bee Parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allison interviews Pascal Brunner, CEO and Co-Founder of Lifehive, about their innovative technology that helps to keep beehives healthy. Their product kills the varroa mite, the most deadly parasite to honey bees, without using chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Lifehive has designed a Langstroth deep brood chamber and accompanying frames that replace most beekeepers&#8217; standard chambers and frames. Each frame has a substrate onto which the bees build their hexagonal combs out of wax for brooding eggs. The Lifehive brood frame has a built-in heating element that heats the frame to a specific temperature and period, sufficient to kill the parasites without harming the bees\u2019 eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple frames are clamped into the hive chamber ensuring proper electronic contact. The brood chamber has a control unit to maintain the proper temperature for the required period. Lifehive comes with a solar panel that can be placed anywhere near the hive and will deliver the required power. Alternatively, a plug connector can replace the solar panel to work with 110V or 230V grid power.<\/p>\n<p>Lifehive is expected to launch in March 2025. Preorders can be placed at the link below.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifehive.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.lifehive.io\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1222\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E4lqqMctuf0\" title=\"CES 2025: Lifehive Honeycomb Frame that Kills Bee Parasites\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Using a Screen Reader? <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E4lqqMctuf0\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Transcript of Interview:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re walking down the aisle and you see somebody wearing a beekeeper suit, you know you got to stop and find out what they&#8217;re doing.  I&#8217;m here with Pascal Brunner from Lifehive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, hello.  We have developed a solution for beekeepers and we help them to control a parasite called varroa mite, which is the most deadly parasite.  And we do this by applying heat instead of chemicals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nOkay, I don&#8217;t know anything about beekeeping.  You have something that looks kind of a honeycomb and it&#8217;s in a wood case and I know nothing else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah, exactly.  So inside of this frame, we have a heating element embedded right in the foundation and we heat up for three hours to 42 degrees centigrade, which is 108 degrees Fahrenheit.  And this is like an in-floor heating for the bee brood, which kills the mites while the bees survive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nSo is this fake honeycomb and you don&#8217;t put honeycomb in here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nNo, no.  This is, you put this one into your hives. This is how beekeepers work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nOkay.  So, yeah, like I said, I know nothing about beekeeping.  I&#8217;ve seen people like pull hives out and rescue the bees, that kind of a thing, but I haven&#8217;t seen&#8230;  Do the bees build wax on top of it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nYes. The bees build wax on that.  Yeah, exactly.  The bees, they build up their cells right on top of here and then they breed their baby bees in those cells.  So this is how beekeeping is done at the moment, industrially as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nOh, I see.  And why is it not naturally that they live in heated environments?  You would think that if heat helps kill those parasites, it has no other side effects to the bees?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nNo, there are no side effects.  I mean, the bees, they control the hive climate very strictly.  So normally it&#8217;s always like at 35 to 35.5 degrees.  So they keep it very narrow and they regulate it.  So if it&#8217;s too cold, they warm it up. If it&#8217;s too hot, they start ventilating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nThe beekeepers do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nNo, the bees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nThe bees themselves? The bees control the temperature?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah, exactly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nWow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nBut with our treatments, we do a short-term treatment to 42 degrees centigrade, just on that frame, which helps killing this parasite while keeping the bees alive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nWow.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re okay with that little bit hotter temperature?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah, they are absolutely fine with that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s fascinating.  So who do you, how do you sell this product?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re selling this to beekeepers and we&#8217;re launching on Kickstarter by the end of February 25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nVery good.  And if you want to learn more about Lifehive, where would they go?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nTo <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehive.io\">lifehive.io<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nLifehive.io.  And do you know, oh, Steve wants to know how this is powered?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all solar-powered.  So we have a battery and the solar panel per hive so that it can work on remote areas or somewhere out in the fields where you don&#8217;t have grid access.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nVery good.  This is really cool.  I don&#8217;t know anything about what this should cost, but do you have an idea of a price point?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah.  The price will be \\$799 and with the Kickstarter campaign, you can get it at 30% discounted at $549.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nSo do you buy a hive or not just this one piece?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nThe full hive, including solar and battery is all together as sold as one kit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s way better than just this one piece then.  Now I get it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Brunner<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. You got it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison<\/strong><br \/>\nAll right.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much. This was really interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison interviews Pascal Brunner, CEO and Co-Founder of Lifehive, about their innovative technology that helps to keep beehives healthy. 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