BEEKEEPING

Thanks to the hive-with-frame system, every beekeeper can thoroughly handle and monitor their colonies. Nonetheless, you should always be careful not to hurt your bees, and in particular your queens. Here are a few tips on how to securely handle frames: 1- To start,...

Generally speaking, bees shouldn’t need extra feeding by beekeepers as they naturally manage their own honey stock. However, harsh weather conditions (during daily-rain periods) or in a lacking environment (flowers without nectar), colonies may face periods of lack of...

Opening your hive Beekeepers shouldn’t open their hives to satisfy their curiosity but only when they need to achieve a specific task and ideally not too early in the morning so that bees have time to wake up and leave. Be sure to only visit them when necessary, as an...

The smoker is the emblem of any beekeeper. An effectively light up smoker, meaning one with cold and white smoke, ensures the security of beekeepers. To light up your smoker, you can use dry newspaper, dry grass, pine needles ou buy smoker fuel (which is very...

We’ve heard that bees are disappearing. But what is making bee colonies so vulnerable? Photographer Anand Varma raised bees in his backyard — in front of a camera — to get an up close view. This project, for National Geographic, gives a lyrical glimpse into a beehive,...

Setting up a hive is creating an apiary, no matter the current or future size of it. Picking the right location for your apiary is essential: the location determines future harvests, colonies’ cycles and your work as a beekeeper. It is best to avoid windy, shaded,...

Beekeeping requires a few tools. Here are the basic ones any beekeeper should own. The bee's smoker The smoker is the first essential. Every step from regular checks to harvest requires the smoker, which gives control to the beekeeper over the bees’ communications....

Beekeepers whom owns only a few beehives tend to keep them in their private garden or balcony.However, when one owns beyond 20 beehives, it requires picking out a specific location.Here are our top 6 tips to do so: Don’t overcrowd the area The most restrictive search...

Use since human are bee hunter The Honey bee communicate mostly through pheromon (aka : odors), every different “smell” as its own signifiacation. So the bees have an incredible sense of smell. A fairly common misinterpretation is that the use of smoke “put asleep”...