Busby's Bees - 07923 277702

Welcome to Busby's Bees. My bees collect the glorious nectar from orchards, and gardens from early Spring to Autumn in and around Abingdon.

Welcome to Busby's Bees page.
Bees are very important to the local domestic and agricultural infrastructure. There are many species of bees – some solitary, some organised into social groups and managed by beekeepers in colonies. The most sophisticated of the social bees is the honeybee, Apis mellifera. A colony can consisting of several thousand individuals, mostly workers, which are sterile females. The bees build beeswax combs, in which they store honey and pollen, and in which also they rear their young. Every colony has a single queen – a fully developed female – who can lay up to 2000 the eggs per day in the Spring and Summer months, from which all the workers, the drones (males) and eventually her successor will emerge. People have been keeping bees for 100's of years. Bees are wild creatures, not pets, and have no interest in human beings, but will happily inhabit suitable hives if we, the beekeepers provide these. The task of the beekeeper is to understand the bees and to provide suitable accommodation, and food if needed. If the conditions are good the bees will thrive and will produce surplus honey which the beekeeper can extract. Bees collect pollen and nectar from a variety of flowering plants and trees through out the foraging season. From looking at the colours of the pollen "the girls" collect, we can determine what they have been foraging on.

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