Apiary set-up and management / maintenance
Avoiding obstacles for the bees
Good Beekeeping Practices
Infographic, Video
© Filippo Jannoni Sebastianini
Bees fly-line should be free from impending obstacles. Obstructions can take the form of trees, shrubs, overgrown grass, buildings, roads with traffic, stones, stacks of materials, machinery, hilltops and roaming animals. In some cases, some natural or artificial obstruction (e.g. hedges / fences) must be foreseen if the apiaries are too close to areas where people pass by or conduct their daily activities and compliance with legal distancing is required, but if the hives cannot be moved to another better place their location should still enable the bees to fly out of and back into their nest quite freely.