Even professional apiarists confuse carpenter bees and bumblebees. Nevertheless, there are clues novice bee enthusiasts can rely on to help them properly identify these bees from each other. Known for ...

Bees prefer to have at least 8 quarts of space to build a hive. In a 12-inch-diameter branch, that might not leave much space for sound, supporting wood around the hive.

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Contact Mike's Top Bar Bee Hives, [email protected]. BeeWeaver Apiaries: ... Megachile spp. Small and varying from brown to black, this solitary native lives in the soil or wood cavities.

In the intervening centuries, various types of artificial hives developed, from straw baskets to wood boxes but they all shared one thing: “fixed combs” that must be physically cut from the hive.

Hive workstations designed by Dan Cuffaro recycle wood from ... The first 32 prototypes — with hexagonal cutouts that give the workstations a distinctive beehive look — arrived at ...

The Wonder Bee & Bee was constructed by 17 volunteers and consists of fir and birch wood, and ... interior features a specially constructed box in the ceiling showing a hive and the bees at work.