Want to learn to keep honeybees? Want to learn how to evaluate information and the beehive? Want to get good and complete information for our area? The Cherokee Beekeepers Club (CBC) and local beekeepers (Jason Segers, and BJ Weeks) are hosting a 5-week course on…
BJ Weeks, owner of Weeks Works, currently has two and three pound packages available for sale for differing dates this spring. He expects to be sold out by February, so order NOW! You can download the flier here . Tip: Make sure to attend the…
A Beginning Beekeeping Workshop With strong emphasis on Practical Beekeeping Saturday, February 11th 8:00 am – 4 pm 7:45 am registration and $55. fee at the door Includes one year membership- Preregister 1/1 through 2/1- Cost $50. Lunch and handouts provided – Bees for workshops…
According to Chiarantona “[Westrich] said that one out of two things could have happened, the queen would have rested and gained energy and the swarm would’ve left in the morning, or they would have decided that the jet engine would be a great place to…
There are so many factors involved in the decline of our hives, it’s important to keep a skeptical mindset but open to new innovations in honeybee care. Slava and Vera Strogolov think they’ve cracked the case: bees are digesting too many antibiotics. “We saw that…
Honeybees never cease to surprise me. There’s been a lot of study about their foraging habits on nectar and pollen, but very little done with honeybees and water storage. I highly recommend reading this article. After a day enduring hot and dry conditions, several dozen…
While foraging for food, insects detect floral scent molecules in the air. Wind currents can carry these molecules up to thousands of feet from their original source to where bees have their hives. “Many insects have nests that are up to 3,000 feet away from…
Honeybees continue to amaze, inspire and astound me. Who knew that bees sleep? and that it affects their learning ability just like us people. But it is not all work, work, work. Busy bees have to sleep, too. Similar to our circadian rhythm, honeybees sleep…
Dan Nosowitz from AtlasObscura asks about the smartest bugs in the world? What is ‘Smartest’, after all? Of course after a while, the subject of bees comes up. Bees are capable of observation, learning, and memory to solve problems. “Every bee is entirely flower-naive at…
We have field tested this Beehive Fence design in three rural farming communities in Kenya with over 80% success rate. Any type of beehive can be used although our project focuses on using Kenyan Top Bar Hives and Langstroth Hives as they swing efficiently in…
