मधुमक्खी पालन व्यवसाय एक बहुत ही अच्छा व्यवसाय है जिसे कोई भी कर सकता जिसमें लागत कम लगती है और लाभ लिया जा सकता है। जो साथी इस काम को शुरू करना चाहते हैं उनके दिमाग में बहुत से प्रश्न होते हैं उनमें सबसे महत्वपूर्ण है कि हम इस काम को कब शुरू कर सकते हैं ताकि लाभ अधिक हो और नुकसान कम हो। वैसे तो इस व्यवसाय को कभी भी शुरू किया जा सकता है परंतु जिस समय प्रकृति में फूलों का खिलना शुरू होता है वो समय सबसे उपयुक्त होता है। मधुमक्खियों को फूलों के रस की जरूरत होती है जिसे वो अपने भोजन के लिए में मधुरस व पोलन इकट्ठा करती हैं। जब यही मधुरस व पोलन ज्यादा इकट्ठा होता है तो…

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…

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…

Method 1 Collect together the same number of spare boxes, floors and lids as the number of hives you want to re-queen what you are going to do is make some mini-hives or nucleus chives. Using a piece of wood, make the entrances to these small hives just one or two bee spaces wide. Place the nucleus hives on the lids of the hives you are going to re-queen, but facing in the opposite direction. Block the entrances with grass. In the hives you want to re-queen, first make a split by removing from them two frames of emerging brood, one frame of stores and a frame of empty comb. The emerging brood should cover only about half of the frame. Don’t brush off any…