If you have curious dogs, poultry or goats, fencing in your hive may be a suitable option. It doesn’t hurt to employfencingto keep your bees and pets safe, to begin with. A barrier to preventcurious crittersfrom entering the “danger zone” will go a long way to keep your pets safe...
Sticking some tiki torches with citronella candles on them near a nest is sometimes enough to actually make the bees move house. Burning citronella around the yard will, at the least, keep bees from visiting those areas. Cucumber Peels
Join National Geographic Kids as we get the lowdown on one of our planet’s most fascinating insects in our ten facts about honey bees! Facts about honey bees 1. Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means that they help other plants grow!
Getting Started With Keeping Bees In Your Homestead Keeping bees goes through the popularity with times. And in case you haven't noticed, keeping bees is the “in” thing to do. I still remember how anxious and nervous I was when I started keeping bees. However, as time flew by, it go...
Also, put up a bee house nearby to give the bees a safe, non-destructive place to nest. Step 4 - Eliminating Carpenter Bees Without Insecticide When the carpenter bees return at night, seal them in their nests. Again, use caulk or a wood dowel. Carpenter bees will not try to bore ...
The film star and humanitarian talks about training women to care for bees in UNESCO biosphere reserves...and about the bee that got under her dress.
The bee traffic in and out of the hive was phenomenal all summer long and they were putting up lots of honey in the honey dome above the excluder. We have a swimming pool, and when inspecting the bees that fell into the pool, we noticed that some did have varroa mites on them, but...
How to keep bees in a natural and practical system where they do not require treatments for pests and diseases and only minimal interventions. Simple practical beekeeping. Reducing your work.
Bees! These cute yet annoying insects like to come out of hiding in early spring, so chances are they're already out and about during these summer months. If you're already scrambling to keep these bumbling little cuties out of your home or garden, then we have a number of safe and hu...
So, the next few months were spent picking out area rugs, chairs, ottomans, couches, end tables, bed frames, cribs, dressers, mirrors, plants, and everything in between that we now found ourselves needing (for lack of a better term) to make the house a home. And these decisions were ...