Raising Bees For The Production Of Honey

Business oriented folks are always searching for various ways to making a living and ways to invest their money. One lucrative business opportunity that a whole lot of folks are getting into is beekeeping. This is certainly an interesting hobby that anyone can get into and indeed does not require any education or experience.

Becoming a beekeeper has a whole lot of advantages, first you are helping in pollinating plants with your bees and your bees will be producing honey that is rich in demand. The world is in need of beekeepers to help in producing honey so there's space for anybody to come in this industry. To begin you just need some basics which are covered below.

The needed materials for beekeeping:

When getting started in beekeeping there are some supplies you will need. The first supplies are the bees and queens. These can be ordered from your local beekeepers store and come in various kits that are unassembled beginner sets or assembled beginner packages. The assembled kits are a full package that include frames, supers, beehive bodies, top hive feeders and some with durable plastic helmets. Other items you need are the hive tool, stainless smoker, leather groves and the monitoring tray.

The required equipment for raising bees:

Exactly like supplies you also need some basic equipment for your new hobby. To shield your honey bees from extreme weather you will need to buy a telescoping outer cover which features a galvanized top that is durable. You should also get a beehive wrap insulation that has holes to cover your hives in cold weathers.

To boost your own debris-less pollen you should get a pollen trap which will help you harvest clean pollen from your hive. Another vital equipment you should buy is the queen excluders which are being used just above the brood chamber to help in separating the queen from the worker bees. When getting started you can buy a plastic queen excluder and then when you want to add more hives you can then get the metal queen excluder.

To help in removing the bees from the super you will need triangle escape board, just place it between the brood holding chamber and supers. A break free board is useful because you will be able to empty your super faster because the bees that are leaving can't come back again in. Additionally obtain a bee brush to help you brush off the bees from the framework.

The last equipment that you must have is the honey extractor which helps in extracting your honey from supers. Honey extractors come in two varieties, one being a hands crank and the other which is ran by a motor. Which ever extractor you buy make sure it doesn't grind the bees and pollen. To help in the honey flow you can get an extractor warmth tape that warms up the extractor.

Once you get these you will be on your way to producing your own honey and sell it for extra income. The more hives you have the more honey you will produce, nevertheless when starting out its good to start out with two hives to get the hang of managing bees.

Various Ways Of Getting Honey Bees Into Your Very Own Hives

Presently there are three ways for you to get the bees which are covered below.

- Buy Them

Buying honey bees is the best way to get started out if you are just beginning with beekeeping. You can order your bees from your local bee farmers store or you can search for bee farming suppliers online. Some suppliers even offer to deliver the bees to you personally since they are experts in shipping them. You should order your bees when you are fully prepared to take care of them.

- Catch Them

In order to save some funds in buying the bees some beekeepers opt to capture the bees from the wild. Please keep in mind that if you know nothing about handling bees you shouldn't make an effort to capture the bees yourself because this can be very dangerous and can be fatal. 

Bee swarms can be found in different places such as top of trees, walls and buildings. A whole lot of property owners don't know the way to get rid of bees in their house which is where you may offer the removal services. If you don't know of anyone who has some bees they want to remove you can put an advert on local magazines for 'Swarm Retrieval Services'.

To get the bees from the swarm you may use a five gallon plastic bucket with a perforated plastic cover. In that case get a mixer of sugar syrup and apply the complete swarm. If the swarm is large make sure your mixer is sufficient to spray all the bees.

Before you squirt the swarm you should put a bucket under the swarm so the bees get into the pail below. When you have sprayed the swarm you should then shake the tree or where the swarm is so the bees fall into the bucket. When done you can then cover the bucket and take it to where you have your hives.


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