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How To Inspect Bee Colonies Without Bee Stings
How to make inspection of bee colonies without a single bee sting? Yes, it is possible. The biggest problem beekeepers, whether they are beginners or experienced, have to deal with is the inspection of bee hives which house aggressive and distressed bees. The situation is understandable. Even people, while being angry and upset, do not…
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Interesting Facts From The Life Of The Queen Bee: The Ruthless And Vulnerable Mother Of All Bees
Just as befits the real queen, the queen bee has 24 hours a day worker bees that constantly take care of her. These worker bees spend most of their time feeding, cleaning, and even digesting food for their queen bee. Without such care, the queen bee would soon die. As the only sexually mature female…
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Beekeeping And First Time Around So Many Bees
When you decide to pursue a new hobby or become interested in something new, you are usually asked “Why exactly would you be interested in that?” and “Have you ever had a similar hobby?” Sometimes it’s funny to me because people find everything we need in this fast-paced and stressful life surprising and useless. When…
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Beekeeping For Beginners – How To Earn A Decent Money From A Hobby
Beekeeping for beginners is not an easy or a simple job at all. Considering that the first year of beekeeping is the most difficult and unprofitable one, we will try to help those who are just entering the business with some useful pieces of advice. Experienced beekeepers may also find some of it useful. Bees…
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Appearance and Description of Bees
All bees have three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings, senses of sight ( two compound and three dotted eyes), senses of smell (tentacles), taste (tongue and proboscis), touch and hearing (sensory hairs). Worker bees have longer and better developed proboscis than queen bees and drones because they need to collect nectar and…
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Robbing: The Bees Can Exactly Smell Death In A Hive!
When bees are healthy, even if it is a small colony in a healthy hive free of cracks and various cavities, and if their flight width is in line with the strength of the colony, robbing is very rare. There is almost no beekeeper who has not encountered the appearance of robbing inside one or…