ZEST Hive Beekeeping BLOG

This can be collected by beekeepers at the spring clean or in a propolis trap made for that purpose. Just because it is free and not made by Big Pharma let us not dismiss it too quickly. Claims are made that it boosts the immune system and prevent those diseases that are a consequence of a compromised immune system. That will be most of them. If anyone can find some well documented clinical trials on propolis and its effects on human health I would be pleased to hear about th

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