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What to do when you see a Bee Swarm?

What to do when you see a Bee Swarm?

In this video, we explore the process of honeybee swarming, explaining how to identify a swarm, why it happens, and how to respond when encountering one.

How to make Bee Balm

How to make Bee Balm

Natural wax based cream to soothe your skin

In this video, Sandira is showing a detailed tutorial on how to make your own natural “bee balm” with beeswax and natural ingredients.

How to Imbue the Space with Propolis Fragrance

How to Imbue the Space with Propolis Fragrance

3 techniques to spread the fantastic scent of 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.

A Swarm of July in Brittany

A Swarm of July in Brittany

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-Ju…

Soft Apipuncture

Soft Apipuncture

How to Sting without Removing the Bee’s Stinger

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

Let Them Bee

Let Them Bee

Natural Swarming and Transfer from Conventional Hive to Top Bar Hive

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

Back in Trees

Back in Trees

Creating Tree cavities for Honeybees

Bees love trees as much as trees love bees. When a bee colony settles in a tree, the field of the colony augments the field of the tree, and vice-versa.

Bee Wisdom Book

Bee Wisdom Book

Teachings of the Hive

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

Walking the Swarm

Walking the Swarm

The gentlest way to bring a swarm home

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

Propolis Salvage

Propolis Salvage

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.

Out of the Box

Out of the Box

Honeybees Living in Trees

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.

Creating a Cork and Cob Hive

Creating a Cork and Cob Hive

The Cob-Cortiço | A Bee-friendly Home

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.

The Bee Bed

The Bee Bed

A Sound Journey Laying Above the Bees

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.

Bee Home

Bee Home

Swarm Transfer from a Hollow Wall to a Top Bar Hive

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.

Bee Happy

Bee Happy

Gentle Swarm Collection and Transfer into a Top Bar Hive

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.

Mantis Lunch at the Hive

Mantis Lunch at the Hive

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

Hive Tool Forging

Hive Tool Forging

Creating Bee-Friendly Tools with Noble Metal

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.