by Nicolas Geant | Jan 29, 2019 | News
Colonies’ organisation and hierarchy is a fascinating process to learn about. Each member of the hive has a specific role within the community to ensure social cohesion and survival. Besides the queen and male drones, the rest of the bees are known as worker bees....
by Nicolas Geant | Jan 20, 2019 | News
The queen’s morphology and body shape is adapted to reproduction’s need, meaning that she is larger, thereby making it easier for beekeepers to find her among workers and males. Her two priorities are to lay eggs and regulate the colony’s activities via pheromones....
by Nicolas Geant | Jan 9, 2019 | News
by Nicolas Geant | Jan 6, 2019 | News
First you’re very sad! You are allowed to say rude words then and blame yourself. As for the workers, they‘ll notice the disappearance of their queen within a few hours. If you listen very carefully the noise made by a colony, the humming or buzzing is different...
by Nicolas Geant | Jan 4, 2019 | News
It’s like the egg and the hen, which came first ? How does it work in the wild ? In the wild, a bee colony, which means several thousand workers, some drones and a queen are living in a cavity. It can be a hole in a tree trunk, a proper beehive, a chimneystack, a...
