Bees are amazing highly intelligent, very likely sentient, and emotional animals. Bee expert Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau's new book titled What Do Bees Think About? is an eye-opening and mind-expanding ...
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Primal Bee designs climate-adaptive, thermodynamic hives that enhance brood health, reduce interventions, and improve honeybee colony performance year-round.
Supplementary Feeding of Honey Bee Colonies Honey bees can be fed various foodstuffs to supplement inadequate supplies of pollen or honey. In early spring before pollen and nectar are available or at other times of the year when these materials are in short supply, supplementary feeding may help the colony survive or make it more populous and productive. As modern land-use practices reduce ...
Solid, bee-tight hive equipment is necessary because any secondary openings will be eagerly sought by bees to avoid passing through the pollen trap grid. Two pollen trap designs are described.
Great presentation from Mr. Steve Riley from this year's National Honey Show just dropped. He and Dr. Stephen Martin host and maintain varroaresistant.uk and work closely with the growing cohort of TF beekeepers in the UK. A few slides outline the fundamental dynamics at work in the colonies...
Has anyone noticed that bees tend to build better on darker frames? Or is it just me? I double coated both black and yellow plastic frames with wax, and gave one hive all black frames, and the other all yellow ones. Both hives had 8 frames of brood on the bottom box, and the black frame box...