Category Archives: News
How wild honey comb is created by honeybees
Wild honey comb can be built upwards by the bees or downwards by the bees, [...]
Oct
Nesting Bees Build Onwards and Upwards at the Garlic Farm, Isle of Wight
Review the video and look for the leading edge and see how the cell shape [...]
Aug
Oakfield School’s hive is just so well behaved.
Do not attempt this unless you are sure you know the bees you are dealing [...]
Aug
Our first Bee Tree at The New Beacon School
This colony must have been sending out multiple swarms and renewing a locally grown wild [...]
Jul
Bees can be calm and careful how they walk on you
Today we had another look in the hive and one bee settled on my hand [...]
Apr
The first look into the Oakfield Beehive in April 2020
Wow they have survived well! 6 frames of bees eating ravenously. See the remains of [...]
Apr
A second beehive arrives at Oakfield School in Ryde Isle of Wight
Both colonies are heavily weighted down because high winds can have a devastating effect and [...]
Mar
Pupils Check Hive at Oakfield Primary
Pupils coming to help Mark from BeesMax with the hives on the school grounds. [...]
Feb
January Hive Health Check
LINK TO VIDEO Notice how green the grass is for late January. The hive sits [...]
Jan
Beekeeping STEM Science & Technology
In June 2019 BeesMAX presented their ideas that were taken up by the STEM volunteers [...]
Jan