BEEKEEPING

Nucs are now available for pre-order, choose which Saturday you want to pick-up your bees. Buy now 5 frame Nuc with Queen: No delivery possible, only collection of purchases. Time pick-up Saturday at : Beeopic 2647 Reliez Valley Road Martinez, California, 94553 5...

Queen shipments are again on Tuesday every week.

Harvesting times differ according to what honey you want. If you want a specific plant’s honey, you need to harvest right at the end of this plant’s blossoming. However, if you want a multi-plant honey, you have to wait until the end of the last blossoming, which...

Now that the beekeeping season is finished, you can store your super until the next one. However you should follow some rules in order to maximize the time you can use the same supers, that way saving money and time along the way. Firstly, you should only store supers...

Beeboard, a free hive-tracking app A free app to track your hives in the field and at home. No more problem gathering informations about your hives !!!In addition, Beeboard is made to facilitate the efficiency of queens and especially their descendants, without...

Also called « the bees’ vampire », the varroa is a true disrupter of any beekeeper’s schedule and apiary. Varroa’s invasion are very difficult to contain and most of the time will infect all the colonies and very quickly too. Epiodemology story A varroa is...

The main characteristic of the Apis Mellifera is its distinctive adaptability skills, making them true chameleon in all environmental and weather conditions. The Apis Mellifera is divided in four races : The Mellifera Linné, the Carnica Pollmann, the Caucasia...

The Italian bee (Apis Mellifera Ligustica) The Italian bee, also called the yellow bee, is one of the four races of Central Europe (among the carnolian, the caucasica and black ones). Within this Italian race, there are three types of bees, differentiated by their...

The carnolian honey bees, also called apis melifera cardiac, is one of the 4 races of honeybees. Also called the ‘grey italien honeybees’ because of their resemblance with italien honeybees, another race of honeybees.Carnolian honeybees are originally from the Balkan...