You should always wear protective equipment when you work your hive. You should light your smoker before getting started. I have often been asked how I keep my smoker going out. Seems some people have smokers go out just about the time they need them. The key is to take time to get the smoker going before rushing off to the bees. There are many types of smoker fuel. I can remember learning how to build a fire as a boy scout. Start small and then add new material slowly to the fire. Don’t dump a lot of smoker fuel onto a newly started fire. You will smoother the fire and it will go out. The goal is to have a good cool flow of…

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…

HARVESTING OF ROYAL JELLY  Royal Jelly is a milky-white cream & strongly acid, and rich in protein, sugars, vitamins, RNA, DNA, and fatty acids. It is possibly the most valuable product of the hive and numerous, fabulous claims have been made about it. It is the food of queen bee larvae and, by feeding a worker bee larva this substance, she will develop into a Queen rather than a worker. She will be a female bee that can mate a totally different being from the Worker, despite the fact that they start out exactly the same. For humans, Royal Jelly can be used as a food Supplement or as an addition to cosmetics to enhance their curative properties. There are numerous stories about the powers…

Hi friends, We are a producers of good quality of Artificial Pollen from India. We export the pollen for feeding bees in the world. This facility is for the support of the Bee Keepers in the world to help them to feed bees in the dearth period. Bees are very needy during the dearth period to consume pollen to grow the generation. Bee’s collect the natural pollen from the flowers to feed the larva and baby bee’s in the colony. In the dearth period bee’s unable to find the pollen from the flower’s because of flowers don’t exist in the nature always. The result is slowing the growth of the bee’s. The queen stop egging because of the low food resource outside for the foragers….