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....
by Nicolas Geant | Nov 1, 2018 | News
Welcome to Beeopic! If you ended up on our website it’s because you wanted to know more about beekeeping or even become a beekeeper yourself. But, like many before you, you are wondering: how do i start beekeeping? It may seems a little intimidating at first, am I...
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...
