If you’re interested in getting into beekeeping, one of the things you’ll definitely want to learn about are the main parts of bee hives. Not everything that you see out there on the Internet is really required, and there are certainly lots of options. This article gives you a quick background on the parts you’ll […]
Wait a second, if I become a beekeeper how do I get started? I have a thousand questions and no one to answer them. We are going to look at just ONE of the topics that plague new beekeepers and that is what do I need a package or a nuc of bees. When my […]
Bee keeping and honey processing are age-old income-generating activities. Below is a taste of how you too can dip into the sweet jar of honey-processing profits. First, you will have to select the type of hive you wish to use in your bee keeping business. The two main hives are the Kenya Top-Bar Hive (KTBH) […]
Wait a second, if I become a beekeeper how do I get started? I have a thousand questions and no one to answer them. We are going to look at just ONE of the topics that plague new beekeepers and that is what do I need a package or a nuc of bees. When my […]
When the Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) invited all interested people to attend the First National Workshop on Beekeeping in Kumasi in January 1981, there assembled a band of pioneers who by their later achievements proved themselves to be quite exceptional people and extraordinary characters. Some […]
If you grow top fruit, beans, almonds, coppiced hazel or willow, flowering crops of any kind, or just have plenty of wild flowers in your garden, you will already have bees as visitors, so keeping a hive or two of honeybees would seem like a great idea. However, while my own main interest is in […]
Beekeeping has suddenly become popular again, having been in decline for more than half a century. Honeybees have been in the news for all the wrong reasons: collapsing colonies, pesticide poisoning and parasitic mites – and all this bad news seems to have triggered an almost primitive desire in people to want to help and […]
Bees are a sweet affair because of what they produce in the end. But whether you are into beekeeping as a hobby or for commercial reasons, you must ensure that your interactions with the bees are safe and simple. Apart from getting familiar with the basics of beekeeping, you will also need to know the […]
Our first encounters with honeybees were long ago, most likely in Africa. Someone discovered – probably simultaneously – that these tree-dwelling insects produced a sweet, sticky substance unlike any other, and that they had stings in their tails. When fire became portable, someone else discovered that smoke caused bees to become more amenable to robbing. […]
1. Seasonal activities of the bees Bees can make honey only during the warmer months when there are a lot more flowers blooming and there is plenty of pollen for them to feed on, but during the cold winter months there is less honey produced by the bees. Bees like humans can sense the changes […]