Choosing the spot, stands, shade and keeping ants out.
Adding colonies past the forage limit does not raise yield, it divides it. How to estimate your own ceiling.
Stingless bees return to a remembered location. Move it wrong and the field bees die at the old spot. Two methods that work.
Too little and the colony overheats; too much and it goes dark and damp. How to build cover that works.
Too large and the colony cannot fill it; too sealed and it goes damp. What a good box looks like.
A stand is not just height. It is the first line of defence against ants and termites, so how it is built matters.
Stingless bees navigate by landmarks, so the box stays where you put it. Five criteria in order of importance.
A single-origin stingless bee honey from our own apiary in Trang Bang, Tay Ninh. Harvested and bottled by batch, traceable to the colony.