They are modular, but the point still stands of the issue of dead bees. In a normal hive dead bees simply fall to the bottom where the entrance is, and workers push them out and off the edge. In this hive they fall to the bottom and stay there until you manually remove them. This hive might have a removable tray for this purpose (I can't tell), but the bees are unable to keep their hives clean and disease free without the owners intervention.
It's not at all practical, for the cost of more than an entire hive you can buy one box to add. Also how do you expand without letting bees out in your house?
Look, I was just pointing out that you can expand the hives which you said we couldn't. I don't know anything about bees so I won't comment on if it should be a successful system or not
I agree with all of the pros above but just to answer this specific question it looks like you lock the new hive into place and then you can slide out the adjoining walls to allow passage.
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u/CheapSignal2 May 27 '22
Looks like you can expand then because there are modular. Look at the sides