Queen Spotting time! Leave a 🐝 if you can see her 👑🐝 no spoilers please🙏 Some spotting tips: - The queen’s abdomen will have a more pointed longer shape. - The queen’s wings only extend 2/3 down her body. - She has longer larger legs and moves differently to the workers or drones. - As she moves around the comb the workers and drones usually get out of her way. - She can often be found surrounded by her group of attendant bees. Good luck! 😄 PS. For last week’s answer please see today’s stories! 🐝 \— #queenspotting #bee #flowhive #fun #beekeeping #whereswaldo #queenbee #queen #fun

Over 80 percent of the world’s flowering plants require a pollinator to reproduce. 🌾🐝🦋 Bees, insects and other small animals reap the rewards of pollen and nectar as a food source and in return they transfer pollen from one flower to another – fertilising plants by cross-pollination. The most common pollinators are bees and butterflies, with bees estimated to pollinate around one third of the world’s food crops. This sunflower sure demonstrates how tempting a good pollen source is for pollinators of all shapes and sizes 🌻😍 #flowhive #pollination #pollinator #pollintorweek

Did you know that bees come in all shapes and sizes? There are about 20 thousand bee species in the world! 🐝🌻✨ these are some of our faves captured by our bee spy Mira in Europe, Australia, Canada and the UK ❤️ It’s the last day today of National Pollinator Week! June 19th - 25th, 2022 So let’s celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what we can do to help protect them. ❌Put the sprays away 🌻Plant pollinator friendly flowers 🌳Help protect habitat Have you seen any pollinators in your garden today? 🐝🦋🪲🐞 #beesarecool #wow #pollinators #pollination #beesofinstagram #shotoniphone #shotonmoment #slowmotion #natureisamazing #nativebees #nature #flowhive

Check out this bumblee bee buzz pollinating this raspberry flower! 🌸🐝Sound on 🎶 First in normal time and then the same clip in slow motion (1/10 of the speed). How cool! 😍🐝 Pollination is when pollen is carried from the male part of a flower to the female part and allows the flower to create a seed. Without pollination, not only would most wildflowers not be able to produce new seedlings but many crop plants would not be able to produce the fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds and oils which are an important part of the food we eat. Buzz pollination is a type of pollination that not all bees can do. It’s mainly done by bumble bees and some species of solitary bee. Honeybees can’t buzz pollinate. Bees grab onto the flower and move their flight muscles rapidly while disengaging their wings, causing the flower and anthers to vibrate, dislodging pollen. There are some plants, like tomatoes, that rely solely on buzz pollination. Raspberry plants can self pollinate but have a much better crop when also pollinated by bees. #beefact #beesarecool #wow #buzzpollination #pollination #pollinators #rasberryflower #slowmotion #shotoniphone #bee #bumblebee #beesofinstagram #flowhive

This weekend we just want to sit back, relax, and watch the honey flow 😍 Happy Friday all. 🐝🍯💛 #honey #flowhive #fridayfeels

Today marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere ☀️ and the winter solstice here in the southern hemisphere ❄️ Happy Solstice to all our beekeeping community ❄️ ☀️ No matter where we are in the world, we can all keep bees 🐝🌍

How to inspect Flow Frames

Queen Spotting time! Leave a 🐝 if you can see her 👑🐝 no spoilers please🙏 Some spotting tips: - The queen’s abdomen will have a more pointed longer shape. - The queen’s wings only extend 2/3 down her body. - She has longer larger legs and moves differently to the workers or drones. - As she moves around the comb the workers and drones usually get out of her way. - She can often be found surrounded by her group of attendant bees. Good luck! 😄 PS. For last week’s answer please see today’s stories! 🐝 \— #queenspotting #bee #flowhive #fun #beekeeping #whereswaldo #queenbee #queen #fun

National Pollinator Week is an annual event celebrated internationally in support of pollinator health. Let’s take this opportunity to celebrate all pollinators and help raise awareness to support them. Check out The Pollinator Partnership this week for some great things you can do to help our precious pollinators. Link in bio ⬆️ 🌻🐞🐝🦋 #flowhive #pollinators #pollinatorweek #pollinator #pollination #bee

Happy Father’s Day (USA & UK) #fathersday #drone #bee #flowhive

Meet the Drone bee. The Drone is a male bee, whose only real role is to mate with a queen. But not the queen from his colony. Characterised by a large body and eyes twice the size of a worker bee, The Drone is raised for mating in spring and dies off, or is ejected from the hive, in autumn. He does not forage, construct comb, or perform any other helpful function within the hive, except on occasion when he might fan his wings to help cool the hive – mostly, he’s a drain on resources. In spring, he will leave the hive during the day to hang out at drone congregation areas, in hopes of discovering a virgin queen on her mating flight. If he is lucky enough to mate, he will not survive… #flowhive #beefact #bee #drone #beekeeping

Cedar “Pooh Bear” Anderson in the garden sneaking some honey 😂🍯🐝 —#flowhive #honeyflow #beekeeping #bee #poohbear #honey #honeyharvest