04/18/2018
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 […]
03/07/2018
A queen can live 3 to 5 years, but with a queen older than 3 years, the colony will be less vigourous, less resistant and prone […]
03/06/2018
Beekeeping cannot be improvised… Find a suitable environnement… You’d better avoid installing your hives in wet, at risk of flooding or very windy area.
03/05/2018
This method can be used whatever queen cage you’re using. 1 : Put your bee suit on, light your smoker and open your queenless beehive. 2 […]
02/27/2018
Why chose a nuc over package bees: in a nuc, bees will not desert as they have brood to protect! Transfer gently the frames from the […]
02/18/2018
The Queen Bee is the corner stone of your colony. While the only provider of new individuals she also spreads her pheromone around the hive to […]
02/12/2018
National Geographic asked photographer Anand Varma to work on a story about honey bees. What he came up with is a work of art. Sponsored by […]
02/03/2018
Even if we are the golden state, sunny and blooming for most of the year, California does indeed experience winter in which Beekeepers and bees have […]
01/31/2018
How and why do queen bees sing?We all know that Insects communicate. Locusts, grasshoppers, cicada and cricket songs can fill the air of our summer nights. […]
01/15/2018
Our beehive is just a wooden box with a flat roof exactly 10 feet away from our bay windows. It’s quite close to the house and […]