Dear Margaret, thank you very much for your interest and your help. For a bee friendly garden, try not to mow the lawn too much so that the bees can feed on native flowers and don't use pesticides. We also tend to forget that bees need a constant source of water, and that is easy to provide ! You...more
Because we want to minimize the cost of this project and because we are only allowed to keep a limited number of hives in the Uni, we were thinking about using 3 hives per treatment. Then we will take a few hundreds of bees from those hives (newly emerged bees, they don't have the scent of their ...more
Thank you for your comment Christophe. Indeed the intestine microbiata is a major topic and it has been very poorly studied so far. It is good that you are looking at it.