Getting Started with Bees

Honey bees are social insects and live together in large colonies. Each colony contains one fertile female known as the queen, and many thousands of sterile females known as workers. For three to four months in summer, a colony will also contain a few hundred males known as drones.

Knowledge of the basic hive parts and the tools needed to manage a beehive is useful for the beginner beekeeper.

Got the Urge to Keep Bees? But Where to Start? The beginner should, first of all, find out if he/she

There are many different species of bees but they are split into 2 different categories – Social Insects and Semi-Social Insects…