Overview

All sections

The sections follow the original addresses: honey, propolis, biology, disease, practice and forage. Magazine and the bee year sit alongside them.

Bee biology

Body, glands, senses — how a bee works.

Dance language, pheromones, vibration signals, swarm decisions.

Varroosis, foulbrood, viruses, bee and comb pests — diagnosis and treatment.

A hundred plant portraits with flowering time, nectar and pollen value.

How honey is made, quality, and single-origin varieties from acacia to silver fir.

Hive resin, harvest, use, raw products — and the other hive products.

Starting out, hives, smoker, hive tool, extractors — work at the apiary.

Mead, propolis tincture, cooking with honey — quantities and timing.

Some 590 species in Germany, mostly solitary and mostly at risk.

Studies from bee science, explained briefly and traceably.

Twelve months and four guides: colony development, apiary work and forage.

From artificial swarm to queen cell — the beekeeping vocabulary.