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 Photo by The Bee Guardian Honeycomb harvested from Top Bar Hive |
We have demonstrated over the past three years that with a simpler and more natural hive design and with good instructive material that almost anyone can successfully care for bees. The downloadable construction plans for the “Backyard Hive” from our website has been over 2500 downloads. The response from the new Bee Guardians has been tremendously positive and successful. We have introduced alternative hives and methods in 3 countries including 16 states in the US. We have focused our efforts in Boulder County and several counties in California to demonstrate a Bee Guardian network to determine the range of contribution and the bee’s local pollination potential. We were also interested in the overall success of the colonies under “beginner” care. In Boulder we successfully set up about 35 Bee Guardians with hives around the county, 75 percent of the bees were captured swarms. Most of the hives were installed in 2007, each hive housed approximately 40,000-50,000 bees per hive totaling a million and half new bees helping pollinate the local environment. |
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| Become A Bee Guardian |
 Drawing by The Bee Guardian Image of a Top Bar Hive |
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