• How many square feet of land is needed for doing bee farming?

    When we think about to start the Bee Farming we must think once in a mind that How many square feet of land is needed for doing bee farming? There are too many things to know this about the space. Its not need to be own land to place your apiary. You can place anywhere the space is empty in the location. Bee’s travels up to 2.5km around their location to get the food. If you placed the apiary in a area its not compulsory to take them in restricted area. They fly and going outside anywhere. Own land is not necessary to bee farming if you have your own land its good but it is not compulsory to be your own land. Instead of…

  • In which month bees mate?

    The all bees don’t mate in the colony. The worker bee’s are females and they were unfertilized and don’t mate with the male. Only queen can mate with male. Because queen is the fertile and able to lay eggs after mating. Everyone wants to know what is the time and in which month bees mate? The queen bee mate in the season of flora and the blooming time. The blooming time of the flowers will comes normally just after the rainy seasons.  The all seasons are not good to mate queen bee. In the dearth periods when the food is not available in the outside the males will be killed by the other worker bee’s. That’s why if the drones (the male) is not available…

  • Role of temperature in apiculture

    Apiculture is very much relationship with temperature. If we want to understand the bee’s behavior and their likes and dislikes we must have to need to understand the whole picture of their life. The temperature in outer world is always changing many times a day. But inside the hive there they need to be a temperature not flexible quickly. Sudden change in their colony can disturbed them. That’s why the trying to control the situations and they want to control atmosphere their own. This is very difficult to know how they manage but here I want to give you a short information about what they were doing during flexibility in the temperature.  1) Fanning in Summer / Hot days Bee’s are very sensitive toward the…

  • How to prevent your honey bee’s from pesticide or insecticide?

    Honey bee suck nectar from flowers in flowering season from the plants. They visited daily to collecting the nectar as food source. Nectar is source of carbohydrate for them. They also collect the pollen from plants as a source of protein. You must have to know about the types of flowers they visited for nectar and for pollen. If you know then you must have to select the location for best for bee’s to survive or collecting the hidden gold in the nature for you.   Chemical is very harmful for bee’s even in very low power of chemical also can harmful for bee’s. In the fields if some pesticides are used as a insecticide then bee’s were die after visiting the flowers. What you…

  • Importance of Native bee’s in United States of America

    Native Bees: Varied and Valuable In the United states of America the native bee’s are very important for Pollination. Bee’s pollinate millions of flower of fruits and crops. We don’t ignore the value of the bee’s here I give you a little information about Bee’s importance of bees specially Native bee’s in USA   Native bees comes in a very wide array of sizes, shapes, and colors. They are also varied in by their life styles, the places they lived, the nests they build, the flowers they visited, and their activities. They remain ignored or unknown by mostly of us in our life. Yet, they provide an invaluable ecosystem & environmental services, pollination, up to 80 percent of flowering plants. What would our world be…

  • Where can I contact any private beekeeping farm in Imphal Manipur?

    Bee Keeping in Imphal Imphal is situated in Manipur state in India. Imphal is hills area there are some natural environment to find bee’s in the native places of Imphal. When we want to start a bee keeping in the hills areas at any place we need a help to start the bee keeping and the initial knowledge is required to stand alone in the bee keeping. Govt. institutes are not available in all the country to helping all bee keepers in the very beginning. If you want to start the bee keeping you need some private bee keepers in the area you belongs to. In imphal and anywhere in the world I suggest you some ideas to find the private bee keepers in your…

  • In what kind of weather do honey bees sting?

    The bee sting is a safety tool for bee’s. They will survive from their enemies to avoid them from any harm to the bee colony. Bee’s can sting once but some bee’s can sting more then once. But its good thing that mostly honey bee’s stings only for one time. Do you know why bee’s do stings. The reason of stinging of bees are different in the different situation. Some times they stings due to weather, we discuss today about what are the main reasons of stings by bee’s. Here I give you a small view and reason of their stings. Its important to know when you are working with them. Knowing about their stinging habit you must keep away from them at that time….

  • The steps required for good quality of honey

    Quality of honey is very big issue today. When we purchase honey from market we don’t know the honey is pure or impure. The honey quality is not only depends on purity and impurity but how the honey will prepare by a bee keeper is more important. Some people think that if honey crystalized is not pure. So how to define a honey is of a good quality to consume. Quality depends on many different aspects. Here I give you a little brief understanding about to produce the steps required for good quality of honey.   1.) Only harvested sealed honey Every bee keeper must be required only harvest the sealed honey. When 70 to 80% honey is sealed by the bee’s only then you…

  • How to decide which larvae of honey bees should be fed with royal jelly to become a queen?

    The queen is the most important bee in hive its true but other bee’s also have the same value in the hive. No ones importance is more or less in the hive. Worker bee’s doing the maximum duties in the hive. Like collecting the nectar from outside, Pollen, water etc. They also work for indoor duties like making hive and repair them. Nursing duty, cleaning work, security work feeding to queen, fanning in summer, heating the hive in the winter.  The queen and the worker bee’s are the same female but there are a little difference between both. Queen is only one in the colony and the workers are in thousands. The reason to producing queen bee is the bee’s fed the larva by Royal…