Keep Your Bees Healthy and Happy
Month by month, season by season, bees need ongoing care. But they don’t require a huge time investment. It’s important that you check on them somewhat frequently, but observation is a good percentage of what you’ll do to keep your bees happy. Just watching hive activity can be relaxing and informative. You can organize beekeeping […]
Introduce Bees to the Hive
Now comes the fun part! Your bees have arrived and it’s time to set up the hive and get them settled. This step-by-step process will show you how to safely and comfortably introduce the bees to their new home.. Then, sit back and let them settle in while you observe the comings and goings. So […]
Gather Beekeeping Supplies
Honey is the most obvious yield from beekeeping and it can enjoys a high level of popularity with consumers, making it a highly marketable product. Each hive of a bees can produce anywhere from 20 to 60 pounds of honey on average per year (depending on a variety of factors such as geographic location, weather, […]
Choose Your Hive System
There are two main systems that are used in beekeeping. One is called the Langstroth hive, and it’s composed of boxes that are stacked on top of each other, each containing frames where the bees build their comb and store honey. You pull the boxes out like drawers to access the bees, harvest honey, and […]
Buy The Bees
It might seem strange to order bees before you get everything else together for beekeeping, but it’s important because most places don’t have bees for sale by the time spring is well underway. You can gave the order of bees in January and time to order your bees for shipment or pickup in April or […]
Bees The Victims of Irresponsible Pesticide Use
Over the past decade, honeybee populations in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere have plummeted due to colony collapse disorder (CCD).The debate about the causes of CCD is ongoing: climate change, pesticides, food scarcity, monoculture crops, Varroa mites, strains of foul brood and loss of habitat, amongst others, have all been blamed. Ignorance or arrogance?Why […]
The Bee Is Declared The Most Important Living Being On The Planet
Its sting hurts a lot, but if they were to disappear, it would hurt much more. The Earth watch Institute concluded in the last debate of the Royal Geographical Society of London, that bees are the most important living being on the planet, however, scientists have also made an announcement: Bees have already entered into extinction […]
