Author beehacker
Newly emerged virgin honey bee queens become inseminated in flight by multiple male honey bees (drones) in elevated regions outdoors called Drone Congregation Areas (DCAs). These DCAs are areas five to 60 meters above ground and 30 to 200 meters in… Continue Reading →
You do not need to choose between protection of beneficial insects and prevention of mosquito-borne diseases.
Every time a news story covers the Zika, West Nile or some other mosquito-borne virus in the US, phones start ringing at pest and mosquito control companies. In the mind of most homeowners, calling a mosquito control company is the… Continue Reading →
…it would be Professor Mandyam Srinivasan. Granted, I may be a little unique there but I have enjoyed many of his papers on honey bee neurophysiology. He is Professor of Visual Neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute in Australia. His… Continue Reading →
I have two hobbies: beekeeping and building/flying multirotors or drones. There is rarely any overlap between the two but recently I have noticed a spate of YouTube videos with titles such as (click on the links!): Bees Attack Quadcopter Blades… Continue Reading →
Ask a dozen beekeepers what the hardest part of beekeeping is and you will get 13 different answers. But at least a third or more of those answers will be related to lighting a smoker and keeping it lit. Pine… Continue Reading →
It has been very rewarding to see reader’s improvements on my original hive scale design. I recently got an email from Matthew Waddington – I’ll reproduce here since it is pretty self-explanatory. Hi- Yet another version of the scale! I… Continue Reading →
Every year, my wife and I struggle to come up with a bee-related Christmas gift that we can make for family and friends. Last year was a building year for my apiary so I did not harvest much honey. However… Continue Reading →
It would be wonderful to identify pollen in honey and from pollen gathered by bees. You can do that with a 400x-1000x microscope for a couple of hundred dollars and some training in staining techniques. So when I heard about… Continue Reading →