BEEGrrl is a tiny Toronto urban buzz stop
bottled honey, hive products, urban beekeeping advice, and beekeeping equipment
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Events, Tastings & Tours
Just like a good scout bee you’ve landed on a page dedicated to the cross-pollination of bee ideas, tastings, tours, and event happenings. Here you will find BEEGrrl’s top picks to forage for. Most can be found within her urban Toronto habitat. A few notable others require a greater flight path.
Urban Bees
We’re abuzz about bringing the honey supply downtown. There are no middle drones between the queen bee and you, we’re all about supporting direct-from the hive and being transparent about how we source the sweet stuff.
Buzz Blog
To be a QUEEN or not to BEE
Most bees are solitary, but honeybees are very social and live within a hive as a colony as a family with a very strong hierarchy. Three castes make up a hive: Queen, Worker, and Drone. The Queen...
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
We have mixed feelings about bees. We fear them, we avoid them, and we swat them. But do we really understand how important they are to our ecosystem? Honeybees are responsible for the pollination...
How Do Bees Make Wax?
Only female bees make wax. A worker bee has distinct glands located on her underbelly which secrete wax. It is estimated that five pounds of honey will be ingested by the bees in order to produce...