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Article by – Lorena Romo Wildlife plays a vital role in securing a healthy environment, whether it’s insects, birds, or mammals. With more humans encroaching on the planet than ever before, it’s so important now to make sure that each one of us does our part to preserve the wildlife in our environment and our […]
Commercial suburban beekeeping in Manukau and Auckland A landscape of volcanic craters, old suburbs, frost free micro climates and the people do keep city beekeeping interesting. Endless tree and flower species thrive here with useful new weeds arriving periodically including tall mangroves, inhabiting our many tidal inlets and moth plant. For the short term at […]
The constant exchange of food and pheromones (scents) between bees keeps the hive functioning smoothly. As their name implies, workers do most of the work in the hive, such as depositing nectar into the honey cells. The nectar ripens into honey in a few days, after which the cell is capped. Drones (which can be […]
Bee Navigation Bee Navigation Each honeybee hive produces about 29 kg of honey per year. To help them make this honey, the bees talk to each other – and just recently, some scientists have learnt to speak this language! The story begins back in 1923, when Karl von Frisch from the University of Munich in […]
facts about bees Pollination Agriculture depends greatly on the honey bee for pollination. Honey bees account for 80% of all insect pollination. Without such pollination, we would see a significant decrease in the yield of fruits and vegetables. Honey Honey is used by the bees for food all year round. There are many types, of […]
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Beekeeping is considered an essential service in the COVID-19 environment however we must reiterate this does not mean you can operate in a state of business as usual.
Pollination It can bee done! BeezThings has been asked to place honey-bee colonies inside the worlds biggest glasshouse for Blueberries. 6 colonies arepollinating40,000Blueberry plants.When we entered the glasshouse we could not see to the farend of the glasshouse -2.6ha -it is ginormous! Usually growers pollinate inside glasshouses with Bumblebees but Blueberries need 10 […]