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...
by Nicolas Geant | Jul 29, 2018 | News
Replacing a queen is a meticulous step, beekeepers must take into account the natural behavior of the colony to make sure the bees accept the new queen. The queen is the cohesive element of the hive, through phenomenal secretion, therefore a queen-less hive largely...
by Nicolas Geant | Jul 15, 2018 | News
Although natural swarming can help grow your livestock, most of the time it downsizes the opportunity of harvest by depriving the colony 4 to 8 pounds of bees. Also, the swarm’s quality will be altered and uncertain.For this reason, beekeepers must prevent swarming,...
by Nicolas Geant | Jun 9, 2018 | News
The queen is the central figure of the hive. She must be changed regularly and inserted in a several thousand-bees population. Finding and marking a queen requires extreme patience, gentleness and an alert sense of observation. A little tips is that you should expect...
