Bee Keeping Urban Area If you want start bee keeping in city or Urban Area it’s good idea but you need to know something before taking decision. In urban area many peoples afraid to see the bees because they can stung them. It’s true but it’s not much harmful for them. You need to say them it’s benefits of bees and stinging then they don’t afraid. In the field while they going out side the hive to collect nectar and water they are not much defensive. Selection of Right Location First of all you need to select proper place where bees are invisible to other people. “Out of sight out of mind” is a famous quote if people don’t see the bee colonies they never…

Honey, Honey, Honey Everyone love to eat honey in the world. Honey is used in many ways like with milk, bread, water and also consumed directly as a sweet food. Honey is very tasty and natural if it come from real source. Up to 50% Honey is duplicate and mixing of sugar content in whole world. If you buy honey from market it’s not sure it’s honey or its a Sugar syrup or honey. Even most popular brands also not good for quality purpose. In the honey 20% moisture is acceptable in the market. Some bee keepers harvested honey without caping of honey combs. If they want pure honey it’s necessary to harvest ripe honey with minimum of 70% comb should bee sealed. In the…

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…

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…