This has been our favourite queen for three years running 👑

She has provided multiple splits a year PLUS some of the heaviest honey boxes I’ve ever lifted.

Yesterday, she started her retirement. I moved her into a small nuc with a few frames of bees to support her.

Over the next month, I will graft from her hive to produce a line of queens to carry on her amazing genetics.

Happy Retirement, Queen Bee! ...

How do bees communicate the location of food sources?
🌿When a foraging bee discovers a new source of nectar, pollen or water, all excited by the discovery, she rushes to her sisters in the nest to report the exact location of the discovered food source so that many new bees are recruited to the nest collecting that delicious booty. Through precise, vibrant, perfectly coded body movements, but also through smells and sounds, the Messenger bee focuses the attention of a group of bees on itself and performs a dance by tracing a figure in the shape of eight with which it communicates to the bees spectators the direction and distance to go. The farther the goal is, the longer and slower the dance will be, with an increase coefficient of approximately 75 milliseconds every 100 meters.
Smelling the nectar on the body of the messenger forager and having received all the information, the other spectator bees take flight in search of flowers with the same smell as the messenger bee.
In addition to indicating the distance to the food source, the bee dance also signals another sensational thing. rectilinear movement goes upwards, while if it is in the opposite direction, it is performed downwards. If the food source is not in the direction of the sun, the axis of the dance is inclined, and the angle it forms with the vertical indicates exactly the angle between the direction of the nectar and that of the sun. who have been in the hive for a long time also correct the angles of their dances as the sun's position and the earth's motion vary! Surprisingisn't it? #beekeepers #beekeeping #honey #honeybee #honeybees #bees #beesofinstagram #beeswax #savethebees #beekeeper #beekeeperlife #beeslife #beekeepersgram #beekeepinglife #apicoltura #apiculture #apicultura #miele #mieleitaliano #miel #honig #nectar #apiary #abejas #abeilles #naturalbeekeeping #backyardbeekeeping #urbanbeekeeping #honeycomb #savethebees🐝 ...

The bee.

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Bzzz 🐝
L'🐝 un peu plus en détail! On aperçoit que cette petite d'été est poilue et qu'elle a du jaune plein les moustaches 😜
Bon début de semaine
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📸 Sony A7RIV + 200-600
ISO 2000 f6.3 1/2000
📅 juillet 2021

#abeilles #bee #bees #tournesol #sunflower #vacances #germany #sonyalpha #couleurs #animals #earth #vanlife #roadtrip #roamtheplanet #voyage #voyageursdumonde #travelgram #travelblogger #tourisme #francetourisme #animal #nature #wild #outdoor ...

17°C 🌤
Queencells. The last 2021batch is on the way.
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#beekeeper #beekeeping  #rooftopbeekeeping #backyardbeekeeping #urbanbeekeeping #beehive
#honey #apiary #apiculture #abeilles #abejas #bee #honeybee #bees #bienen #imkerei #imker #birøkt #birøkter #vindfløybybigård #vindfløy ...

#dtiys (#drawthisinyourstyle) de angelganev #dtiysweek23 #miel #abeilles #nousvoulonsdescoquelicots ...

Don’t worry … #bee happy

#bij #belgianphotographer #natuurfotografie #bees #beephotography #beesofinstagram #beehappy #wildflowers #wildflower #wildflowerseason #natureiswild #naturelovers #naturelover #natureshots #appicoftheweek #abeille #abeilles #abeilles🐝 #abeille🐝 ...

Connaissez-vous l'apiculture écologique ? 🐝🌿

Dans la pampa Montreuilloise, au fond de son propre jardin, notre apiculteur Khagan (on ne vous le présente plus !) pratique une apiculture écologique depuis un bout de temps maintenant !

Alors l'apiculture écologique, kézako ? 🤔 C'est une apiculture qui replace l'abeille au cœur des préoccupations… mais on ne vous en dit pas plus ! La suite est à découvrir lors de nos ateliers sur son rucher !

Viiite ! 😱 Il ne reste plus que quelques places pour le samedi 14 et le dimanche 15 août !

Pour découvrir l’apiculture écologique, ça se passe dans la bio ! 🌿

#happyculteur #apiculteur #apiculture #apicultureparis #abeilles #bees #savethebees #soutenonslesapiculteurs #apicultureecologique #ecologie #ecology #respect #jardin #garden #atelier #vacances #vacancesenfrance #holidays ...

#jardins #jardin #jardines #jardim #garden #gardens #garten #gartens #jardinsfloridos #jardinsfleuris #aster #asters #flowers #flower #fleur #fleurs #blossom #blossoms #flores #flores🌸#abeilles #abeille #abeilles🐝 #bee #bees ...

Le millésime 2021 du doux nectar est arrivé 🍯. Les "filles" 🐝🐝🐝 de l'happycutrice (😉 fanfhk) ont été moins généreuses cette année, donc la récolte a déjà trouvé tous ses preneurs parmi les proches (on peut pas leur en vouloir, elles avaient été prolixes en 2020). 👏👏👏 pour la passion et les heures consacrées par l'happycultrice amatrice qui a repris de main de maître la passion de son papa christinelaucournet87 😘😘😘. Bon appétit à tous

#miel#abeilles#passion#plaisirdessens #plaisirdespapilles #nectar#doux#douceur #sucre #sucré#honey#bees #apicultrice #amateur ...

Lorsque l’abeille
Goûte la passiflore
Elle s’émerveille

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#fleurs #fleur #flowers #flower #monjardin #mygarden #mygardentoday #mygardenlife #paris #ig_france #ig_france_paysage #igersfrance #ig_flowers #ig_flower #ig_flowers_world #ig_flowers_today #passiflora #passiflore #bee #bees #abeille #abeilles ...