Thursday 4 December 2014

NEW BEEKEEPING PHOTO





MahakoBees Beekeeping Videos - 16oz (450g) of honey and all that is required to make it. Bees work hard ot make honey. We enjoy it and this infographic shows how much work it actually takes. We need to take care of our bees and help beekeepers. Please support our bee life saving initiatives by support us on PATREON with a donation for each beekeeping video we produce on a regular bi-weekly frequency. Any amount is appreciated. Click this link to see how you can help. Thank you. MahakoBees




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Tuesday 2 December 2014

NEW BEEKEEPING PHOTO





DRONE eviction - Chewing drone wings OFF!

DRONE sentenced to death by Drone Eviction. Unique bee behavior. See the worker bee chew on her brothers wings and evict him from the HIVE. http://ift.tt/1opiWHi. Our blog http://ift.tt/1z3tL60 has many interesting beekeeping videos and articles. Come and check it out and help our beekeepers save our bees which are currently under great threat from pesticides, pests, viruses and colony collapse disorder! Once thee bees go, we will struggle to feed ourselves.


This video was a lucky take, as it shows a closeup of the bee hive entrance as the worker bee evicts her brother the drone from their colony. It is winter here, and the bees are still evicting their drones mercilessly. As the queen bee reduces her egg laying activities, the worker bees forcefully push the drones out of the bee hive.


The male drones don’t have a stinger and as such, are powerless against the worker bees (their loving sisters) even though they are 30 percent larger in mass. Only a few will remain in the hive as a precautionary backup plan should the queen fail to continue to lay eggs for any reason. The worker bees would kick off the supersedure process and immediately begin nursing an egg into a new queen. Several of them at a time in fact and the first one would typically kill the others before they hatch by stinging the queen cell with her stinger. Only the queen can sting repeatedly without loosing her venom sack. The queen stinger lacks the return hooks and is more like a wasp stinger. the Queen stings rarely though otherwise.


So, as this video shows, beekeeping is a very interesting hobby. Should you be considering joining the beekeeping industry, come and visit our blog for more information as to what beekeeping entails, what to expect, helpful information on how and why to get started and visit our store for useful books, tools of the trade, even the hives and all things related to beekeeping - http://ift.tt/1yAK5Iy.


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Monday 1 December 2014

NEW BEEKEEPING PHOTO





Beekeeping at http://www.mahakobees.com. Visit our YouTube channel for great beekeeping videos. The above is a great infopic explaining the organisation of a honeybee colony. Learn about bees, they are a vital part of our food chain!




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