ZEST Hive Beekeeping BLOG

Now safe from neonicotinoids, the battle for better bee health has been joined with the ZEST hive, being one conducive to better bee health by virtue of its design. It is warm and dry rather than cold and damp. See Blog 1. We need to change our queen rearing methods as the current ones are in-breeding the species, but for greater detail go to the Management Chapter in the free digital on line shop where the full thesis can be seen. When left to their own devices honeybees wou

We have been drenching the environment for 40 years with neonicotinoids in a species war against insects. Michael Gove has finally managed to ban them for use in the UK. The downside is that we may soon have to be cleaning squashed bugs off our car windscreens. In the 60’s I had to stop my Ford Prefect regularly on a warm summers evening to do so. Safe from neonicotinoids, the battle for better bee health needs to shift to the basic bee hive design. We continue to hark back