While sometimes a colony may need feeding immediately to keep it alive
Moving hives long distances for pollination services to areas devoid of plant diversity because of herbicides and insecticides
If you never raised queens
She also writes regularly for beekeeping magazines and is currently the knowledge exchange manager on the Welsh Government’s Farming Connect programme
and endless discussion of which plants should make it to the short list
Bees of the World by Laurence Packer Bee Masters While sometimes a colony mayWhen many people think of bees, they are likely to picture the western domesticated honey bee, insects that live in large, socially complex societies inside a hive with a single queen and thousands of workers. But this familiar bee is just one of more than 20,000 species of beesand almost none of the others is anything like it. In Bees of the World, Laurence Packer, one of the worlds foremost experts on wild bees, celebrates the amazing diversity of