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A simple way to make incense out of two single ingredients: mugwort and propolis.

Propolis is a resinous substance created by the bees. It has great healing, clearing and protective properties, and an amazing fragrance. In this video we describe 3 techniques on how to imbue the space with propolis fragrance.

During a visit to her parent’s home in Brittany, Sandira Belia assists her beekeeper mother in collecting a swarm. The last few months have been so wet, that one of the hives decided to cast a swarm later than usual, on this beautiful day in mid-…

Bee venom is a powerful medicine with strong anti-inflammatory properties.

This video shows the magnificence of a swarm flowing out of her mother’s womb, a colony living in a Sun Hive.

The BeeWisdom network is experimenting with the creation of bee-friendly hives using different materials, here cork and cob, which provide both insulation and thermal mass. We call this hive: the CobCortiço.

One of our dear hives has given birth to a large swarm. The cluster is hanging on a branch nearby.

A bee is recycling propolis that we used to seal a groove on a Top Bar hive. The footage allows to see how the bee is packing chunks of propolis in her rear leg baskets.

This is “la cama de abejas”, the Bee Bed. A wooden bed placed above two bee colonies. When the lid closes, the traveller finds themselves in total darkness, immersed in an experience carried by the song and vibrations of the bees.

A bee swarm has just settled in the wall of a wooden barn. The owners don’t want her to stay there, so the BeeWisdom team collects and transfers her into a Top Bar hive. Thanks to Benjamin Bogosian for the music.

Despite the rainy weather, the mother hive has decided to cast off a swarm. Without any protection needed, the BeeWisdom team gently collects it and brings it into a Top Bar hive.

A praying mantis enjoys a bee-delicacy at the entrance of the Sun Hive… Thanks to Or Stav for the music.

Colonies of Apis mellifera who live in the wild are often the issue of swarms escaping from colonies kept by humans. When they have the possibility, swarms which escape from manmade hives like to live in the bosom of their old wooden friends.

We observe that the bees often react aggressively to the energy of conventional hive tools, made out of steel. Copper based tools, forged with love, don’t trigger this reaction.

This video presents a short interview of the author, Sandira Belia.