Comments on: My bee-sy friends

By: Lani

Lani — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:00:48 +0000

Thanks for visiting, Kabayan. If you’re here in the area or your associates are, Mrs. Ines should not be difficult to find. Just go to Sinait and look for Bonna’s Garden, it’s right along the highway, just before the town cemetery.

By: Akino

Akino — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:22:11 +0000

Good day kabayan, I also long want to try a business, I love nature and pets, beekeeping will be ideal for me. Would you be kind to share more information specially about Mrs. Ines, please email me her contact details. Congratulations for the success with your bee-sy friends and good luck! Cheers!

By: Lani

Lani — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:04:11 +0000

Thanks, Joy, and thank you, too, for your interest, Jane. I am new to this myself and I am still learning and I surely will be posting more about our apiary in the future. When we got our colonies, they came in small boxes with four combs each, and each colony contained 10,000 to 15,000 bees. We transferred them to larger boxes (will post pics of boxes in the future) and since then, there have been new bees hatched; we have had to add combs (the rectangular wooden frame in the first picture above) and one box on top of the original to give them more room because the first box had become too crowded, but we don’t really know the exact percentage increase in the number of bees.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:38:26 +0000

What a coincidence…I was just talking about a homemade honey with a coworker yesterday. She said she was told by a doctor friend that a cure to an allergy is a teaspoon of honey – a local homemade honey, it has to be! Well…I don’t know about that, I said, but I sure could try it. It doesn’t hurt to try new things right? A report about a bee says: “In winter the bees only leave the hive if it’s 48 to 50 degrees or warmer outside. Inside the hive they cluster for warmth – they have to keep the hive at 90 degrees to ensure the young survive.” It is so interesting to see you keep bees and even more so interesting to hear from you that your group of hives are growing. Manang, can you please tell us more about it? How did you determine the increase in hives and the bees total (?), if you know it…there are so many of them… By the way, last year I got a bee-sting on my left arm which still shows mark on it…ah…bees…also reminds me of a friend trying to kill one bee with her shoe and instead a 150-year old glass window broke…those were the days… I must mention as well that I was so lucky to taste a lot of honeybee brands there…they, our local people, said before, it is good for someone who has asthma…my parents bought all kinds of goodies incredibly delicious made from honey, I mean all kinds, just to cure my constant asthma attacks. And of course, I now figured, honey cures – and very natural treatment by the high mineral content of the honey itself! I long to hear more news….

By: Joy

Joy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:27:26 +0000

I am so happy for you! Congratulations!