Beekeeping Radeck

🐝🌼 SPRING IS BUZZING — AND IT’S THE PERFECT TIME TO LEARN ABOUT BEEKEEPING! 🌼🐝

Ready to get closer to nature and discover the fascinating world of bees? Join Agra ProVision’s Springtime Beekeeping Course and gain practical knowledge and hands-on experience to get you started on your beekeeping journey.

📅 1 & 2 September 2026
⏰ 08:00 – 17:00
📍 Windhoek | Agra Head Office

💰 Adults: N$2,000
👧 Children: N$500
All minors must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

🐝 Remember to bring your own bee suit — bee suits are also available for purchase at Agra Hyper.

🌱 Whether you're a beginner, an aspiring beekeeper or simply curious about bees, this is a great opportunity to learn, explore and get hands-on!

👉 Apply online via the link in the caption and secure your spot! https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=snTniUhgTEKfFgqeqUsFe6Z54IhhRBdFqLde7IC2_T5UQ0lRMERMVzZSSTg0NlNJNEtPMU5IODdRUS4u&route=shorturl&fbclid=IwY2xjawTmeNJwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMVAzSTZjUjlJMW10QnVscEJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeeg-3KSLLqFltUOm-6_06gArUAe_yo9xsR-sdHmfCEfpq6dJ_4WrOCbb18to_aem_I-mkQgij1G_Jr3f9NPECSg

📧 [email protected]
📞 +264 61 290 9208

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**IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM BEEKEEPING RADECK**

Dear customers, friends, and fellow beekeepers,

We would like to advise everyone that **Dieter Radeck has been diagnosed with Stage 3 metastatic melanoma** and is currently undergoing treatment and therapy in Windhoek.

As a result, **all beekeeping requests, queries, orders, and related business will be placed on hold for a minimum of three weeks**, provided everything progresses as hoped during this period of treatment.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and ask for your understanding and patience while Dieter focuses on his health and therapy.

**Please do not send urgent requests expecting an immediate response.** We will attend to outstanding enquiries and orders as soon as Dieter is in a position to do so.

Thank you to everyone for your patience, support, understanding, and continued confidence in **Beekeeping Radeck**. It is greatly appreciated during this difficult time.

We will provide a further update when we are able to resume normal operations.

**Thank you for your understanding.**

— **Beekeeping Radeck**

Honey is sold out ! Next season April /May 2027

🗺️ THE NECTAR MAP: DISTANCES AND SECRETS OF BEES 🐝✨
​When we see a bee landing on a flower in the garden, we tend to think that its world is limited to just a few meters around the hive. In reality, worker bees – and especially the scouts 🔍 – are incredible natural airline pilots. They are capable of mapping entire territories, calculating millimeter-precise distances, and making astonishing journeys to ensure the survival of the colony! 🧭🌸
​📍 The Operational Range: How Far Do They Fly?
​A bee's flight range varies greatly depending on food availability and the season. These distances can be divided into three main operational zones 📊:
​Preferred Range (1 - 2 km): 🏡 This is the ideal area. If there are excellent blooms near the hive, bees prefer not to venture too far in order to optimize time and save precious energy.
​Standard Distance (3 - 4 km): 🌻 When primary nectar sources become scarce, foragers expand their horizons, easily pushing up to this distance in a straight line.
​Flight Record (7 - 10+ km): 🚀 In extreme cases of severe shortage or for exceptionally attractive blooms, some scouts have been tracked at incredible distances. A truly titanic effort for such a small insect!
​🔄 Hive Relocation: The Strict 3-Kilometer Rule 🛑
​A bee's flawless orientation and their "integrated GPS" – based on the position of the sun ☀️ and Earth's magnetic fields – present a major challenge for beekeepers when it comes to moving colonies.
​If you need to relocate a hive, you must pay close attention to the geolocation of your foragers:
​❌ Short Relocation (< 3km) – THE INVOLUNTARY RETURN RISK: If you move a hive just a few hundred meters or 1 to 2 kilometers away, the bees will head out in the morning and recognize familiar landmarks (trees, hills, houses). Upon returning from their flight, they will involuntarily return to the old site 🏚️🐝 where their home used to be, leaving them lost and stranded.
​✅ Long Relocation (> 3km) – NEW TERRITORY: To prevent colony depopulation, the hive must be moved at least 3 to 4 kilometers away. Finding themselves in a completely unfamiliar environment, the bees will reset their geographical memory 🧠🔄 and perform a new orientation flight to map the new location.
​💡 Practical Tip: If you only need to move the hive a few meters (e.g., within the same apiary), you must do it very slowly: a maximum of 30-50 cm per day 🐌, giving the bees enough time to update the coordinates of their landing strip day by day.
​🏎️ The Extraordinary Numbers of a Working Day
​To understand the incredible endurance of these insects, just take a look at the flight statistics of a standard forager bee ⏱️:
​Number of trips: She makes 10 to 15 flights a day hunting for nectar and pollen 🌤️.
​Cruising speed: She flies at about 24-30 km/h, but when traveling unladen toward the flowers, she can speed up to 40 km/h! 💨
​The honey miracle: To produce just a single kilogram of honey 🍯, the bees of a hive must collectively fly about 150,000 kilometers... the equivalent of 4 times around the globe! 🌍🔄
​Once back home, the scouts communicate the exact location of the best flowers to the rest of the hive through the famous waggle dance 💃🐝, drawing perfect geometric figures-of-eight to indicate both direction and distance. 📐✨

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