In an ideal world of beekeeping, you would have a beehive full of healthy bees producing delicious honey that you can either keep for yourself or sell on as an extra income. However, we do not live...
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New beekeepers are often left wondering what is going on when they check their beehive to find it empty. This phenomenon, known as absconding, can occur for many reasons. For the newbie beekeeper,...
In nature, bees typically build their hives in hollows and cavities in trees and logs. Climate permitting, they will also construct comb, which hangs down in the shape of a smooth catenary curve. To...
Beekeeping is increasingly more frequently being taken up as an amateur hobby. This can be attributed to many factors, ranging from increased awareness of the importance of bees within the ecosystem...
A nuc, short for “nucleus”, is essentially a smaller colony of a few thousand bees. Of course, that does not really answer the question of how these are created and what they are for, but this...
It seems that beekeeping has reached a peak of broad popularity these days, with setting up a small apiary now a frequently enjoyed pastime. Yet where things really matter, it hasn’t been going too...
