Have you ever wanted a beehive, but it seems like too much hard work to harvest the honey that the bees have worked so hard to collect and therefore protect?
Did you ever wonder how New Zealand came to have honey bees? Or did you presume, (like I did!) that the honey bee was always here?
Come springtime bees start to become more active with the longer days, warmer weather and all that wonderful nectar around, and sometimes they may leave their hive to embark on a new adventure.
Following on from September’s Bee Aware Month, we found this fantastic video on the life cycle of a bee, and how they pollinate.
Did you know that bees only take 21 days from egg to mature adult,
Bees are so important our livelihood, did you know they are estimated to pollinate about one third of our food production! What an amazing effort from the little guys, and they are under threat from the varroa mite.
