What to look at, what to ask, and how to avoid a weak hive.
One is too few to learn from, and ten is more than a garden or a beginner can carry. Where the sensible number sits.
You cannot inspect the brood through a screen. Five things that substitute for it, and one that never does.
The first week decides whether the colony stays or leaves. What to do each day, and what never to do.
Prices vary widely for what looks like the same thing. Four factors that explain most of the gap.
You do not need equipment to judge a colony. Four visual signals and what each of them means.
Six things to check with your own eyes when inspecting a colony, and the one question that separates real keepers from resellers.
A single-origin stingless bee honey from our own apiary in Trang Bang, Tay Ninh. Harvested and bottled by batch, traceable to the colony.