Beehaviors: Swarming, AKA, Looking For a New Hive (Part 2)
If you were ever lucky enough to see the incredible sight of hundreds of bees flying frantically above your head in a cloud reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s film ‘The Birds,’ you have witnessed the birth of a bee swarm. Intimidating at first, the cloud of bees disappears after a few minutes as if nothing happened, […]
Beehaviors: The Waggle Dance (Part 1)
Last summer, we put our apiary through some major changes. We broke some “traditional” beekeeping rules and tested some new ideas. One of the chances we took was moving a colony from one hive to another, but only two meters away from the original one. An old saying teaches beekeepers to move your hive less […]