This post talks about the passion of beekeepers, as it is seen on their different kinds of bee hives. How the hives look when we have good materials to build them, and how when we don’t even have where to place them. How people dedicate their lives to build something different and h...
of honey bees have been brought in. All have mixed together and now it is very difficult to impossible to actually have a pure bred bee of any kind. However, let me go ahead and tell you of the different kinds of bees. But before I do, remember that it is next to impossible to ...
The wax moth is both a pest and an asset. The larval form of this moth lives in honey bee hives where it eats the wax. In active, managed hives, this behavior can be a nuisance to the bees. In some cases, an already weakened hive can be taken over by wax moths. However, in fer...
The present study entitled "Evaluation of structural modifications on Bee hives using different types of bottom board materials against greater wax moth Galleria mellonella L. (Pyralidae, Lepidoptera) infesting on Apis cerana indica F. Colonies". The results revealed that the incidenc...
be tied to these products.Most important is the sudden loss of huge numbers of bee hives.Bees are necessary to the pollination process for soybeans and many other food crops.It's entirely possible that "the law of unintended consequences" has caused the loss of these extremely important ...
Looking beyond the honeybee, there are thousands of fascinating native bees to explore and protect. Most of these native bees live in nests in the ground or in leaves and sticks, rather than in hives. Over 3,600 different bee species exist across the US, and they each have unique, critica...
kinds of risks, namely, bees and conspecific larvae. While bees are known to attack the moth’s offspring and remove them from the hive, the conspecific larvae compete for resources with the new offspring. To date, little is known about the mechanisms involved in the assessment of oviposition...
In bee colonies wintering in hives with a lattice bottom, the consumption of food per 1 kg of bees was 1.639 kg (50%) higher than in hives with a solid bottom. Winter mortality of bees in hives with a lattice bottom was higher compared to this indicator in the h...