Category: Honey bees, beekeeping

• Book review Honey bees, beekeeping

  The Honey Trap, How the Good Intentions of Urban Beekeepers Risk Ecological Disaster, by Dana L. Church

  

  Read this book if you want to keep honey bees. Read this book if you like honey. Read this book if you want to know more about pollinators and how they’re important to the planet. Read this book if you want to ‘save the bees’, but aren’t sure how to…

  Nov 29, 2024
• Honey bees, beekeeping

  The Summer of Laying Workers, 3

  Read Part Two of this series here. Read Part One here. It’s been a long set-up, but we’ve arrived at the punch line. Or at least, at my favourite part of this story: where we see, in images, what happens when a colony develops laying workers. It’s a royal mess,…

  Feb 27, 2022
• Honey bees, beekeeping

  The Summer of Laying Workers, 2

  

  Read Part One of this series here.  We’re two-thirds through, folks, and I hope you’ll feel the investment of your reading time pays off, with drama and fascinating facts from the insect world. Beekeepers call a honey bee colony “queen-right” when it has a laying queen in residence, and “queen-less”…

  Jan 23, 2022
• Honey bees, beekeeping

  The Summer of Laying Workers, 1

  A passion almost equal to writing, for me, is beekeeping. Honey bees are exceptional animals, fascinating to humans and heavily researched, yet with many behaviours we still don’t understand the mechanics of or know the reasons for. Here’s a saga in several parts about who does what in a honey…

  Dec 26, 2021