When reading countless articles, magazines and books on beekeeping the subject on ventilation comes up time and time again. The use of large entrances, open mesh floors are up for debate when choosing a beehive. What is better? The question is, for who..? When looking at natural nests in trees and what cavities bees use […]
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Human activities have impacted the environment for thousands of years and unfortunately not always for the better. Our landscape is changing all the time due to the ways that we are trying to live in it. Our natural forests are changing and diminishing, woodlands are disappearing and even in our open landscape we can see
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Tree cavities represent ‘keystone vegetation structures’ (Tews et al., 2004), which are well documented to limit the populations of many terrestrial animals at the local scale (Newton, 1998). In a way it is sad that we need to make log hives. Research shows that tree cavities are important indicators of our forests structure and health.
What logs do we use for making our hives? Ideally naturally hollow logs are the best to use. But these are not always to hand We at Boomtreebees ltd only seek to use those logs that came from trees that died of natural causes, i.e. windblown, disease etc. Taking down healthy trees doesn’t make any
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The medicinal importance of honey is well documented throughout the world. Honey possesses antimicrobial as well as wound healing properties. So why is it that when we walk through the supermarkets the honey can be found on the same shelves as jams etc.? Is this the right place for it. When reading through the endless
Log hives mimic the natural abode of the native Irish honeybee, which would be cavities in trees. This time of year we prepare our selves for the oncoming season by hollowing out logs and turn them into natural abodes for honeybees. We are working on a conservation project in Inishowen where we try to erect
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December 2019/January 2020 Watching the news about the wildfires in Australia hit me hard. The video footage of the total destruction of tropical rainforests and their inhabitants left me completely speechless. The scale of it all was enormous and almost incomprehensible. When the fires were raging through New South Wales, I contacted my friend, Adrian
