Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping harvest We keep our hives strapped

We keep our hives strapped all winter long and this strap is 14' so it can handle a summer hive stacked with supers

This wonderful film takes a look at the state of the honeybees at the moment

add a frame or two of food (both honey and pollen) and one or two frames worth of young bees shaken from brood frames

Tautz introduces them as a 'superorganism'

The nurse bees will care for the developing queen and brood till the virgin queen flies out to mate

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