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A Few Tips For Beekeepers

June 15, 2016 By Tom Hager Leave a Comment

Beekeeper inspecting the hive.

Beekeepers need to follow a set of rules.

In the beginning, beekeepers tend to make some mistakes because it is natural. It is also a process that helps them learn more about the behavior of the bees and how to take care of them properly.

First of all, beekeepers should observe their hives from the distance once a week or even daily to understand the bee traffic. As a beekeeper, you need to notice if the bees are bringing pollen back to the hive or if they deal with an ant invasion.

Plus, you need to know the approximate number of bees that leave or enter the hive and how many dead bees are around your hive. By doing all of these things, you can learn more about the colony.

Furthermore, it is important to open up the hive once every two to four weeks if you are a beginner. This way, you will spot any problem early and deal with it in time.

However, the hive inspection must be done properly, because opening up the hive is a very stressful process for bees. That is why many experienced beekeepers check their hives less frequently on more established colonies.

Another important aspect is to figure out if your hive still has a queen. A few signs are showing that your colony lost its queen, such as the lack of eggs, young larvae and a significant increase in honey and pollen because bees focus only on foraging when they no longer have any larvae to take care of.

Plus, if your colony stays too long without a queen, the bees will start leaving the hive. Another important rule is that you must avoid taking too much honey.

Experienced beekeepers advise others that they should not take honey from a colony during its first year. You need to let the bees make plentiful stores first. It is sad to see your colony dying due to starvation, just because you were too greedy.

It is also worth mentioning that package bees need to be fed well because they are weak, confused, and they have no honey. You need to feed them for a month if you want your colony to survive.

 Moreover, beekeepers need to choose the right place to set their hives. It must be in clear space, with the sun shining from every angle. In addition to this, select a 10-foot radius of unfrequented area, so you have enough room to take care of you hive without any problems.

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Bee Hives Must Be Saved

June 8, 2016 By Dean Lamori Leave a Comment

Honeybee pollinating a flower

Bee hives need support.

The situation of bee hives in the United States has become critical in the past few years. Denise Palkovich, a beekeeper in Fond du Lac, fears that her hives will not last until next season.

Moreover, she confessed that never in her 12 years of raising bees has she lost all of her hives during winter and spring before beekeeping season. Moreover, throughout the last season, around 60 percent of Wisconsin honeybees died during winter, at a four times faster and higher rate than beekeepers consider to be decent.

In addition to this, 44 percent of the bees in the U.S. died this season, according to the data from U.S. Department of Agriculture. Experts believe that the cause of such a massive decline in bees population is due to mite, insecticides and climate change.

Beekeepers are now forced to import new bee hives from other parts of the country to help the survival of the bees’ population in Wisconsin. Bees play a crucial role in the balance of the state’s ecosystem as they pollinate fruits, nuts, tomatoes and other crops throughout Wisconsin. Furthermore, they support the economy of Wisconsin thanks to honey and other products made from it.

Palkovich has a shop, called D’s Bees, in which she sells beeswax candles, honey and many other honey goods that her seven hives, each named after a Greek goddess, provides after a season. She underlines that her goal is to have enough money to maintain her small business, consisting of beekeeping.

The latest investigation has established that a parasite, known as the Varroa mite, is responsible for infesting every bee hive in Wisconsin and other places. Worse, this mite carries a disease that can kill entire colonies of honeybees, and is regarded as the primary bee killer in the United States, according to the data from USDA.

Another bee enemy consists of insecticides, such as neonicotinoids, used in almost every corn field. Besides killing dangerous insects, they also kill bees that come to pollinate the fields.

According to Gerard Schubert, president of the East Central Wisconsin Beekeepers Association, Wisconsin still has a chance of restoring the bee hives. Plus, even if the import of honeybees represents a valuable asset in saving the bees’ population it is fortunately not the only source on which beekeepers rely.

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