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 में उपयोगी है कपास की फसल   कपास की फसल में पोलन व नेक्टर दोनों की पर्याप्त मात्रा मिलती है कपास की फसल की बुआई मई के महीने में की जाती है। जिन मधुमक्खी पालकों के नजदीक कपास की खेती होती है वहां वे साथी मधुमक्खियों को रख सकते हैं। भारतीय मानचित्र में दिखाया गया है कहाँ कहाँ इसकी फसल उगाई जाती है।     जो साथी भी शहद का उत्त्पादन अधिक मात्रा में लेना चाहें उनके लिए अच्छा चुनाव है परन्तु केमिकल के छिड़काव से मधुमक्खियों को बचा कर रखने की भी आवश्यकता होती है। आजकल सभी प्रकार की फसलों में दवाइयों का छिड़काव किया जाता है जो मधुमक्खियों के लिए खतरनाक है। इससे आपकी मधुमक्खियों के मरने की अधिक संभावना होती है…