Vindfløy Bybigård

12/01/2025

The hives buried in the snow above Bergen at night❄❄❄
📸 Martin Koch

24/12/2024

Christmas Rose
First and last bloom of the year 🌸🌟

23/10/2024

Vindfløy Worldwide 🌍
A jar from Norway to Lamu, Kenya 🌴
📷 .bees

05/10/2024

Warming up ☀️

03/10/2024

Fall in Bergen. The Fløyen hives over the fog the other day.
 

03/09/2024

Harvesting the Sandviken summerhoney

01/09/2024

472 mm rain! 🌧🌧🌧
We broke the record and had the wettest August on record. Only 3 rainfree days the whole month. Little flight time and no honey coming in. Time to wrap up the season.
For reference, Berlin gets 581mm a year.
 

30/08/2024

NEWSBLOG
Apris Florea, the asian dwarf honeybee, has been recorded for the first time in Europe. Probably arriving by ship, Increasing temperatures support the establishment of species in new ecosystems.

The news: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/30/colony-invasive-red-dwarf-honeybee-first-time-europe

The science:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00218839.2024.2386888

The Red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea), is a single-comb open-nesting member of the genus Apis with a natural distribution area stretching from the Indomalayan realm on the east to the Persian Gulf ...

21/08/2024

Plenty of veggies, herbs and 60kg of honey.
Rooftop garden on a office building by 🥒🥬🥕🍯

11/08/2024

Pollen through the season from april to August.
Each colour represents a different flower from dandelions in spring to heather in august. 🌼🌳🌸
Pollen is needed as a protein source to build new bees, nectar is the energy source that keeps them running.

02/06/2024

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02/06/2024

17°C ☀️
Bergen city bees on the rooftop.