Apr 17
Beekeeping with top bar hives is getting more and more popular, as it is thought to be a more natural way to keep bees, more in tune with the way they would live in their natural environment. This top bar hive beekeeping DVD is beautifully filmed, and well worth a watch!
Nov 20
An amazing video showing bees working in a top bar hive. 3 months condensed into 2 minutes!
May 24
Bees’ natural instinct is to swarm, and you want to prevent this if possible. If preventing a swarm is not possible, then one option is to create an artificial swarm. To know when to do this it is important to know about the timing of a swarm. When you find queen cells which are close to …
May 24
One of the most important jobs of the beekeeper is swarm control. In the swarm season (usually May to July), strong colonies will be very prone to swarming, and this is definitely something you want to avoid if possible. To understand how to do this, you need to know a bit about the timing of …
May 12
If you keep bees, sooner or later they will swarm. This means that the queen and about half the bees in the colony will leave the hive and try to find another home. Swarming is the natural way for the bees to propagate their race – after a swarm, instead of 1 colony of bees …