Year after year, millions and millions of honey bees face one of their biggest enemies. One that eats them from inside out. It targets the youngest and most defenseless in the hive. It lasts until the

This has been a great year at drapis.com. Not only did we create a custom labeling service for all our products, as once again, we expanded our product range. Currently summing 5 distinct product lines.

DrApis is a cross between traditional, time proven, apiculture techniques and sustainable beekeeping. High grade, truly raw, unprocessed, natural products. And the most stubborn resistance to chemicals,

Intensified beekeeping explores the biological potential of the species to the limit. It pushes the colony’s genome to it’s maximum, to produce the most honey, in the shortest amount of time possible.

Observe how the swarming colony tries to encapsulate the queen honey bee (pointed out with the key). Meanwhile, scouts look for suitable nests. At the moment, there was at least another swarming colony

This is a young cork tree. Can you see how fluffy? It's flowering season. The video below shows how pollen clouds form as you shake it a little. Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized,

Part of our Alentejo's wildflower collection. Trifolium nigrescens, the small white clover, is an annual species which is widespread around the Mediterranean, including north Africa, and the Middle East.

Part of our Alentejo's wildflower collection. The rununculus, or wild radish also known as white charlock or jointed charlock, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is sometimes claimed to

Part of our Alentejo's wildflower collection. One of our bees' source of nectar. Lavandula stoechas, the Spanish lavender or topped lavender (U.S.) or French lavender (U.K.), is a species of flowering

Honey bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis) harvesting a gum rockrose. Part of our Alentejo's wildflower collection. One of our bee's main source of resins. A species of flowering plant, also known as laudanum,

Part of our Alentejo's wildflower collection. One of our bee's main source of nectar. The national flower of Scotland. Also known as Scots, Scottish, or Scotch thistle, spear thistle, bull thistle, or

Warm greetings from the land of wildflower and cork oak prairies. Me and my bees have been harvesting these fields for some decades. The amazing environmental properties of this little corner in south