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…

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…

There are many types of flower’s in the nature for bee’s. Bee Keeper’s don’t know much about which types of flower’s were used by the bee’s to collect nectar & pollen. We only know little about the flower’s name & variety. In the forest bee’s goes for their food and visiting more then 2,000 flower’s a day in search of nectar & pollen. If we identify some flower’s to useful for them it will be very helpful for bee keeper’s. Bee keeper’s  migrate the bee’s from one place to another place to survival of bee’s and to collect bee products. Recognition of the site and requirements of the bee’s are useful for bee keeper’s. In the video given bellow you can understand about how to…

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…

Bee Keepers facing many problems in the this field. The given bellow video is one of the best way to solve the problems of Wax Moth. We can easily get rid over the problem. Wax moth normally comes in the rainy season or in the off season. Week colony is the main problem of all disease you need to make your bee colony strongest possible.

The Beekeeping is an ancient art that has fascinated its devotees since earliest times. Honey robbed from wild colonies in trees & caves was early people’s main source of sweet food. Dominance of honey  the major sweetener continued until cane and beet sugar became generally available in comparatively recent times. Honey with its unique flavors and aromas and natural origin still has wide appeal. World production was estimated at 1,446 million pounds in 1976 and more than 1,415 million pounds in 1977. In the United States about 200,000 people keep almost 5 million colonies and produce 200 million to 250 million pounds of honey annually. Beekeepers can be classified as full-time, sideline, or hobbyist, with the number of colonies operated by individual owners varying from one…

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…

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…

Honey-bees can navigate using the position of the sun, polarized light and landmarks. They can ‘tell’ other bees about the distance and bearing to sources of food using a well developed symbolic language based on movement and sound. They can also regulate the temperature of the nest to an exact degree using heating and cooling systems of immense complexity. As long as it has water and food, a colony placed on the sides of a volcano or iceberg will maintain its brood nest at 34º C (93º F). It is these facets of the honey-bee’s ability that have caused it to be one of the most researched insects on earth, and all countries maintain at least one institute devoted to bee research, and many universities…

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…