by Nicolas Geant | Dec 10, 2018 | News
Honey bees have a remarkable sense of direction. A foraging bee can leave its hive, travel considerable distances to find flowers, and then return to the same colony with impressive accuracy. Bees do not rely on a single navigation system. Instead, they combine...
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....
by Nicolas Geant | Oct 28, 2018 | News
A sense of touch Bees’ sense of touch can reasonnably be compared to man’s: their antenna is similar to our hands, but the difference is that the rest of their body is sensible to touch and thus used by bees to be more aware of their surroudings. Beens’ sense of touch...
by Nicolas Geant | Oct 22, 2018 | News
To begin in beekeeping, you only need one thing: a hive with bees and queen. It is the obvious and simplest firsst step, you would just need to buy it from a senior beekeeper. He/she will provide you with either a hive already full of bees, or a nucs 5-frame that you...
by Nicolas Geant | Oct 18, 2018 | News
The quickest and easiest way to start in backyard beekeeping is to buy a complete hive with bees and queen. Price for a complete hive is $350. This includes the floor, an 8-frame Langstroth body, a roof, bees and one queen.This full hive was raised in northern...
by Nicolas Geant | Oct 18, 2018 | News
To get its first beehive, the young beekeeper can pick a swarm in a tree in the spring. It remains random and harvesting a swarm is not easy the first time. You can simply buy a nucs from a professional beekeeper. To create a split, commercial beekeeper divides one of...
