Blackwater Beekeepers is pleased to offer a Beginner Beekeeping Short Course. This six week course is appropriate for anyone interested in beekeeping. Classes begin in January 2021, allowing adequate time for new hives to be established in the spring. Participants will be eligible to receive a S.C. Certified Beekeeper certificate from the S.C. Beekeepers Association […]
What’s Going On In Your Bee’s World
What’s Going On In Your Hive! The South Carolina Beekeepers Association has a great calendar, month by month to help beekeepers prepared for what is going on in your hive! If you have not seen it you should check it out! CLICK HERE TO SEE THEIR CALENDAR!
Pee Dee Ag News
Pee Dee Ag News Blog Thank you to Ben Powell for sharing a blog written by Justin Ballew. This blog has lots of interesting and helpful information about our area! Check it out! Subscribe! Never stop learning about the area you live in! The bees will thank you! Click Here To Go To Pee Dee […]
Misunderstandings about what a bee is and what a bee’s needs are can lead to misguided efforts to save them. Much of the movement has focused on honey bees or bumble bees but has ignored the other 95% of bee species, many of which are important pollinators in our wild lands and in agricultural settings. […]
Bee TED Talks
TED Talk Buzz Over Bees TED talks recently had a presentation on bees. A Photographer by the name of Anand Varma raised bees in his backyard. He took close up videos and pictures with his high tech cameras! This project was for the May 2015 issue of National Geographic Magazine!! This gives views of the hive […]