Do you want to jump into beekeeping but have no clue of how or where to start? Your reasons might be for the sweet honey or other hive products, as a hobby, for pollination assistance and commercial...
Month: March 2019
In this article we asked a good friend of ours called Gwendolyn why she decided to become a beekeeper. This is her inspiring story. The Beginning: If It Were Easy, It Wouldn’t Be Worth...
Honey bees are one of the most important insect species for our planet. This is because they are among the most important pollinators of food crops - without honey bees many plants cannot grow and...
Each honey bee colony is comprised of thousands of individuals, the majority of which are worker bees. All of these individual bees perform a variety of tasks within the hive in what seems to be a...
Just like animals and human beings, chickens can also die from bee stings. Their stings contains the toxin melittin, histamine and other biogenic amines that are responsible for pain and itching....
While we would like to encourage Bees into our gardens and open public places, we also don't want to inadvertently introduce disease to where there was none originally. There are a few points to...