Our hives are placed close to water fields, lavender and especially space, away from homes or people. <\/span><\/p>\r\n 4 seasons, 4 periods of work in beekeeping:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n Autumn<\/span><\/strong>,<\/strong> bees are preparing for winter, the butnieuses actives. We\u00a0still check the status of our hives, repair cracks, protect from the cold, are reorganizing their frames they do not lose their energy and they consume less. We all winter, we will repair, paint it, it will create frames, it will melt the wax, we will check our <\/span>equipment, we observe them coming and going <\/span><\/p>\r\n Spring<\/span><\/strong> : (And even a little before): they will begin to emerge from their hives, they will do their cleansing flight. The queen has already started and we expect her laying out swarms in order to create other colonies, the other bees go foraging in flowering tree flowers: Fruit trees - aromatic plants. We check the hive, laying, queen cells, honey reserve the colonnie. And until our harvest scheduled from end of July, we will monitor the hives, the bees, their work, it will pose increases and will be a little vacation in July ... <\/span><\/p>\r\n Summer<\/strong>:<\/span> this is the time of harvest, they gather them increases, extracted honey, we put it in a jar and\u00a0\u00a0it is sold. It's finish ? almost ..<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n We raise about <\/span>1 billion bees in full summer season ! They are rustic, antique and regional races. We own 200 hives in the Alpes de Haute Provence (04). <\/span><\/p>\r\n To live and raise the colony, they need flowers ( nectar , pollen ) and water They love the sun , with a minimum temperature of 16 \u00b0 C. A queen can live up to 3- 4 years. She can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day . Eggs are fed royal jelly for 3 days, the workers who keep after them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n They make the difference between the royal cells and av\u00e9oles containing other larvae , which will later : beeworker , babysitter, cleaner , wax , \u00a0bumblebee \u00a0...<\/span><\/p>\r\n[FinalTilesGallery id=\"8\"]\r\n\r\n","link":"https:\/\/produits-artisans-verdon.fr\/en\/growers-makers\/christophe-botta-en\/","name":"Christophe Botta","slug":"christophe-botta-en","taxonomy":"pwb-brand","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n