by Alec | May 15, 2020 | Bee Aware, Fun Facts, North East
Honey Bees, and bees in general, often get a bad rap because of their defense mechanism: stinging. However, foraging bees rarely sting people, it’s when you are near the hive, and posing a threat that bees will begin to sting a person actively. A honey bee will...
by Alec | May 15, 2020 | Bee Aware, France, Fun Facts
About six weeks ago, I wrote an article about how Varroa Mites are wreaking havoc on beehives worldwide. As a refresher, a Varroa Mite is a large, reddish-brown parasite that latches onto foraging bees and feeds off of their blood or the bee equivalent of it. It can...
by Alec | May 8, 2020 | Bee Aware, Fun Facts, North East
Bees. In the typical hive, there are 3 kinds of bees. The Queen, the drone, and the workers. Then there are larvae, which begin life as eggs laid by the Queen, and in around 14 days, emerge as new worker bees. Worker bees are responsible for the maintenance and...
by Alec | May 8, 2020 | Bee Aware, France, Fun Facts
Starting in around 2011, new technology began to pop up on beekeeping forums worldwide. A new startup, called Arnia, a UK based beekeeping company, was making waves by claiming that they could monitor hive health using acoustics. This was not a new phenomenon, similar...
by Alec | May 1, 2020 | Bee Aware, Fun Facts, North East
The Beehive is a manmade structure made to house Honey Bees for several beneficial purposes: honey, pollination of crops, CCD prevention, and apitherapy treatments. In America, honey bees may be moved via truck or shipment to different areas for pollination purposes,...
