You can build a Warre Hive for free! Don’t you just love it when you get great ideas? I know I do. This idea is a really good one too…
We all want stuff for free. So what if you could build a bee hive for free? That’s right…no materials cost, no wood cost, no glue cost. Free.
Free Beehives?
Would you do it?
Here is the basic idea…
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Posted in Beekeeping Advice, Thoughts on Beekeeping
Tagged beekeeping, build your own beehive, diy beehive, free beehive, HowTo
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat…or so the old saying goes. With Christmas comes presents and gift giving…and receiving!
If you have ever wondered what to get a beekeeper for Christmas, wonder no longer! Here are some gifts that any beekeeper would give his/her best bee suit to receive. Well, maybe not a bee suit, but you get my point.
Without further fanfare, here is a beekeeper’s wish list:
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Posted in Beekeeping Supplies, Thoughts on Beekeeping
A comment about varroa mites was left on my last post. Here are my replies to this comment…
“There has been no time for natural selection to evolve a response to varroa – which is why it kills our colonies.”
This is an interesting question…do honey bees need to “evolve” a response to varroa, or do they already have an instinctive response to the varroa mite? It seems that some bee strains do indeed have an instinctive response to the varroa mite, and this genetic trait can be passed along to other strains through selective breeding.
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Humanity depends on the lowly honeybee
Honeybees are in trouble. Varroa mites, nosema, colony collapse disorder and foul brood have all taken their collective toll on the small but hardworking insect to which humanity owes so much. Besides furnishing honey for commercial bread-baking and beeswax for quite a few of the top of the line cosmetic supplies, bees regularly pollinate over one-third of the world’s agriculturally derived food supply. Needless to say, humanity depends on the lowly honeybee.
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Posted in Sustainable Beekeeping, Thoughts on Beekeeping
Tagged bee-friendly beekeeping, beehive, honeybees, sustainability
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