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...
by Nicolas Geant | Dec 16, 2018 | News
Drones’ mere role is their reproduction abilities, indeed their only duty within the hive is to fertilize their queen. They are by no mean useful to the hive or their peers. Their lives is fairly short. They live from spring to autumn if the food resources allow it,...
by Nicolas Geant | Dec 13, 2018 | News
Bees need clean water, nectar but above all a rich and diverse pollen. In addition to a good diet, beekeepers can keep their hives healthy by having a young queen and regularly changing its frames. As for all living beings, healthy food equals healthy bees. The queen...
by Nicolas Geant | Dec 10, 2018 | News
Bee’s sense of direction remains a scientific mystery. Indeed we know foraging bees can leave their hives to find flowers and come back to the exact same location, but we don’t really understand how ! Karl Von Frisch, in 1967, is the first one to understand that bee’s...
by Nicolas Geant | Nov 11, 2018 | News
Thanks to taste receptors, bees can identify different types of sugar and their contents in digested substances. Their developped sense of taste helps them carefully select the plants and flower they forage from. Here are the answers to a few questions on the topic....
