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I am writing this in October, and outside the window is weather that a decade ago would have been an abstraction: sun, a dozen-odd...

This is the question that comes up the moment a newcomer decides to become a beekeeper, and the one where it is easiest to hurt yo...

The word paperwork hits new beekeepers like a cold shower. Straight away they picture stacks of forms, queues at the office and th...

The dream of your own honey, a humming hive in the garden and being closer to nature is catching more and more people. And rightly...

Ask an average person about pollination and they will answer: bees. More precisely the honey bee, the one from the hive, the one t...

Let us start with a number that gives pause. There are about 2.4 million bee colonies in Poland. As many as in the United States,...

Every beekeeper who now and then curses pouring acids and hanging strips dreams of the same thing: a bee that handles varroa on it...

Few topics divide beekeepers like insulation. Some pile thick cushions and mats on the nest, add insulation, fuss over every detai...

Ask yourself a question few people can answer: why does a summer bee live about six weeks, while a winter bee from the same nest,...

You are feeding the colonies up for winter, everything goes smoothly, and then one afternoon a cloud of frenzied bees forms under...

When the colony is strong and alert in summer, guards patrol the entrance and every intruder gets a slap before it enters. But in...

You open a box of stored combs and there it is: webbing, cocoons, tunnels and writhing larvae. Wax the bees worked on for weeks tu...

In the age of open mesh floors, cameras and sensors it is easy to forget that the oldest and cheapest diagnostic tool a beekeeper...

Picture March. You open a hive that has gone silent, and you see a sight every beekeeper of a few seasons knows: a dead cluster we...

People usually think about wintering when it is already too late, that is in November, at the first cold, when you lift the roof a...

How to measure varroa infestation, which treatments to choose and when to treat. Why diagnosis comes first, because every treatment burdens the bees.