Keeping Bees and Making Honey. Bee Aware - we need bees and bees need us. Bees need space.
The importance of beekeping is becoming increasingly vital to the survival of honey bees and ultimately all living things on the planet.
Bees have existed for over 35 million years.
The Queen Bee can live for 5 years and lays 2000 eggs a day.
Honey Bees are not native to the Americas, they were introduced by the first European colonists.
There are 20,000 species of bee of which only 7 are 'honey bees'.
A Fifth of UK honeybees died in winter 2008
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Keeping Bees Anyone Can Do It
Family friend starts bee keeping
Ken got interested in bees last year. His first step was to go to some introductory classes arranged by his local bee keeping association in Shropshire in the UK.
He has built his own hives from kits and started his own colonies.
It is considered 'bad luck' to pay for a queen to start a colony so he was given one by his bee class teacher.
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Bee Stuff on Zazzle
Great Bee Keeping Books
Learn about bees from the experts
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Great Bee Keeping Material on eBay
Bee keeping information and equipment
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Bee Keeping Buzz
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The art and science of keeping bees
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Did you know that not all bee hives are the same?
The Apiarist has developed the style and structure over the bee hive over the centuries.
The early form of bee hive was called a Skep (see picture above)
In the USA the most commonly used hive design is called the
Langstroth Hive.
In the UK the National is favoured.
There is also the WBC design., with its recognisable 'sloping roof' and named after its designer William Broughton Carr (very likely Border Reiver ancestors with that name!)
Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth of Philadelphia, discovered in 1851 that by leaving a 1 cm space in the hive for the bees to move between the sections, the bees wont build any honey comb or close the space up. This he called the "bee space." This meant that removable frames could be used.
Urban Bee Keeping
The new frontier of be keeping
London UK has its own urban bee keepers association
The video below is of novice urban bee keepers in America.
British Bee Keepers
This is the logo of the British Bee Keepers Association
The organisation provides a host of news, advice and training information. There are over 60 affilliated associations and presently 15,000 members.
American Bee Keepers
The American Bee Federation
It has 1000 members
More Bee Keeping Associations
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Scottish Bee Keepers Association
Ulster Bee Keepers Association
Shropshire Bee Keepers Association
Welsh Bee Keepers Association
Bee Keeping Association of the ACT Australia
National Bee Keepers Association of New Zealand
The Canadian Honey Council
Ontario Bee Keepers Assocation
Comb The News
The buzz about bees
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- Bee decline threatens our dinner and the countryside
- Buzz from The Daily Telegraph
- UK scientists get £8m for research into bee decline
- Buzz from The Guardian
- Research money has beekeepers buzzing
- Buzz from The BBC
- Vanishing of the Bees
- Documentary
- Urban Dwellers Should Keep Bees
- Bees on your rooftop
- Decoding the Waggle Dance
- Will this stop bee decline?
Bee Blogs
Feed your mind
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- The Peace Bee Farmer: Honey Supers in Storage
- The honey bee is the only insect in the temperate region that stays alive and active throughout the year. The honey bee evolved this survival strategy of using the colony's work force to produce enough high-energy food during the warm ...
- The Honey Bee's Sketch Blog: Salon Sketchesplus Critters!
- The Honey Bee's Sketch Blog. Just buzzing with ideas and concepts! Tuesday, December 22, 2009. PostHeaderIcon Salon Sketchesplus Critters! 4:06 PM | Posted by Meli Hitchcock | Edit Post. Ok, so here are the minor sketches I did while ...
- Honey Bees on Cocaine Change Ideas about the Insect Brain ...
- By doping honey bees with cocaine, researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered evidence that the insect brain has a reward system. The famous.
- Bee Yard wanted « Redland Rambles
- I caught up with him at Ramble, and noticed he had a sign saying he was looking for a bee yard in suburban Miami. Your reward? All the honey you can eat ? and an opportunity to do something to help honey bees survive. ...
The Enemy
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A major enemy of the honey bee is the dreaded
Varroa Mite
It kills bees by sucking their blood.
Fighting Varroa
By lightly covering bees in caster sugar the bee keeper encourages the bees to self groom and this helps to some extent.
Information Waggle Dance
Social networking and communication bee style
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- National Geographic Honey Bee article
- The providers of honey and beeswax
- Bee Keeping
- Brittanica
- Some Bee Facts
- There are 7 species of honey bee
- Honey Bees
- The full story
Beegin Bee Keeping
Beekeeping For Dummies (For Dummies (Pets))
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 12/23/2009)
Beeginners guide!
Kids swarm to Bee Keeping
There are special Kids Sized Bee Keeper Suits too
Beecause they're worth it!
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- rms rms Aug 24, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
- Very cool topic. Nice work!
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- kimmanleyort kimmanleyort Aug 24, 2009 @ 8:02 am
- Excellent lens on a topic that is so very important. 5*
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- Stazjia Stazjia Aug 24, 2009 @ 5:12 am
- My brother has kept bees in his back garden in ant outer London suburb for about 20 years. He gets honey, of course, and his wife makes hand and face cream using beeswax.
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- reasonablerobinson reasonablerobinson Aug 24, 2009 @ 12:46 am | in reply to marymc
- Thanks Mary, I didn't either until our friend got involved. Bees are fascinating creatures and experienced bee keepers are highly knowledgeable.
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- marymc marymc Aug 23, 2009 @ 3:36 pm
- Never realized there was so much to know about bees. Wow. Gave you five stars. I'm so impressed, also favored you. Glad I found you on twitter. I'm mbradleymc over there. Will head back and make sure I'm following you. Good job.
Mary Mc
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