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This article on swarm prevention by Michael Bush is pretty much one of the most detailed descriptions I've found on the behaviour leading up to a swarm and what you can do to prevent swarming.
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James has been interested in natural medicine since the 70's and started a company focusing on propolis in the 90's. Having comissioned scientific research on the substance and written a bo...
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In his book Laurence Packer provides a good overview of the complexity of the challenges all types of bees are currently facing, what this problem means for humans and how we can help. The novel is...
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Excellent lecture from Sam Comfort covering his past with the commercial beekeeping industry and why he started keeping top bar hives.
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Sam Comfort showing folks around his bee yard. He talks about selective queen breeding, top bar hives, regressing back to smaller cells and keeping bees treatment free.
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Cool story on Anicet Desrochers, North Americas largest producer of organic honey. They talk about different types of honey and honey culture.
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This quick follow up to my previous post on water sources will take a look at what we've been observing in the bee yard the last few weeks.
We've set up a rain barrel designed to le...
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A few years ago Dave Barr introduced me to the concept of Growing degree days(GDD), a calculation of accumulated heat that helps you to predict the blossoming of plants and trees with pretty good a...
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This excellent document from the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturalists provides a quick and clear overview of honey bee behaviour over the winter months including changes in the hive...
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Bees collect water for a variety of reasons. Its use in keeping the hive cool during hot summer days was rather intuitive to me. One spring I watched them visit a near by marsh in great numbers:
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