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…

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…

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…