Some may surprised to know why on earth beekeeper would keep bees in a city area. In fact some of best honey comes from city parks and garden and some areas richer in nectar than many areas of the crops countryside. There are main things to think about beekeeping in urban area is neighbours, neighbours and neighbours. If you want bees your neighbours don’t. The neighbours will be scared of bees because many peoples think that honey is produced by nice, bumble bees & so when they see your fast horrid little wasp like things around all over the place, they will not always be pleased or happy about it keep them happy by trying to adhere to the hive placements outlined below and always…

Knowing when to harvest Honey can be extracted when it has been capped over by the bees on the comb. At this stage, the honey will have been ‘matured’ by the bees, sealed up and is ready to eat. Often, when you want to remove the honey, not all will have been sealed. I always use a rule of thumb here if three quarters of the honey is sealed, I am happy to remove it from the hive. This is an important point. If you extract honey that has not been sealed, the water content will inevitably be too high, and the honey will ferment in storage and explode if sealed in a jar or tank. It will also taste foul if this happens. You…

Winter season is very tough season for the bee’s to survive. In the winter season bee’s are unable to go outside to collect food due to low temperature. In this situation bee keepers need to take care or their bee colony to survive them. Winter Management for Bee’s image-1 The main reason of bee’s not going outside is low temperature & not availability of sufficient flower’s to collect nectar & pollen outside their hive. Some technic to help them is available for bee keeper’s to help them. These technics are called as Winter Management Technic are given bellow Close the top cover with air proof not to entering the snow & cold air in to the hive. If your cover is loose and space between…

Among different insect orders, only 8 have been recognized by insect taxonomists which have some communal life. Out of these 8 orders only two orders viz. Isoptera and Hymenoptera have well developed social organization. Even in Hymenoptera, only two families namely Halictidae and Apidae of superfamily Apoidea contain fully social species. Most of other bees live solitary life. Social behaviour Honey bees are among the fully social insects having overlap of many generations in the same nest. The colony is a well organized social group having division of labour in terms of laying of eggs, nursing, comb building, guarding, food collection and its storage. They have well developed communication system through different types of dances as well as trophallaxis. Biological communication can be defined as…

मधुमक्खी पालन के काम की बहुत सी खूबियां होती हैं जिन्हे जानना आवश्यक होता है । इस काम में आपको हमेशा उनके पीछे लगे रहने की जरुरत नहीं रहती, ऐसा और जीवो के साथ हो सकता है कि आपको उनका ध्यान २४ घंटे रखना पड़ता हो पर मधुमक्खी पालन में आपको हर दिन देखना जरुरी नहीं होता अगर आप ७ दिन में एक बार या जब शहद हार्वेस्टिंग का टाइम होता है तब भी विजिट करते हो तब भी कोई प्रॉब्लम नहीं होती । आप को हार्वेस्टिंग टाइम या फीडिंग के समय ज्यादा ध्यान रखना होता है सर्दियों में भी आप सब का काम समय लगता है और आप को केवल देखभाल करनी होती है । थोड़ा समय दे कर आप चाहें तो इसे पार्ट…