How to start a beekeeping

The first bees can be bought, captured or attracted


To facilitate the work, it is necessary that the beekeeper is always dressed appropriately and preferably always accompanied .
Beekeeping aims beekeeping to produce honey, beeswax, propolis, pollen, royal jelly and bee venom, poison used in the pharmaceutical industry. To start creating, the beekeeper can get bees in three different ways: you can buy bee colonies other commercial beekeepers, can capture the hives in a natural state or can attract families to swarm boxes or traps .

However, each of these three processes have advantages and disadvantages. The purchase method of bees can be a very convenient practice, since the beekeeper only have the job of finding a place to make your purchase. But this is only advantage for those who have a favorable financial condition would not be feasible for the producer who wants to expand their production.

As for beekeepers who prefer to capture the bees in box, it is noteworthy that the bees that accept boxes baits are less aggressive than animals that are captured directly in nature. However, this method has the disadvantage of limiting and expanding the apiary, it is not possible to predict how many colonies will be attracted to the bait boxes.

Swarms caught in the wild, with the removal of entire families from their natural habitat, is more laborious methods, but is presented more advantages. It is the cheapest way of getting the initial bees, enables a rapid expansion of the apiary and a consequent increase in production, and promote direct contact between beekeeper and bees, which gives the producer a very useful experience for the next handlings.

The real work of beekeeping will only start after the installation of the first hive. Being primary work of the beekeeper, bolster their bees in the most difficult moments and then you can benefit from productive fullness. For this, the producer must know the various cycles that pass a colony because in periods of food shortage, the family languishes and drones are expelled from the hive, the queen falls posture and the production of honey, pollen and wax decrease . It is precisely at this moment that beekeeper must act in order to rescue their colony.

He must provide artificial food supply beeswax in order to save the bees work, check the status of frames and reduce the entrance hole of the hives in cold periods. Already in periods of flowering, honey production is enough for the beekeeper can harvest much for you, without this causing harm to bees.

In order to know the right time to make interference in the activities of the hives moment, beekeepers should make periodic inspections to check the progress of the work of bees. For such inspections, it is necessary that the beekeeper is always dressed appropriately, preferably always accompanied, to facilitate their work. Besides the dress, you also need to use the smoker. For this work it takes patience, quiet and precise movements.

Lastly, to facilitate identification of the queen bee in each hive, here are some tips: always be the queen bee surrounded by a veritable "army" of workers, who are like their "chaperones"; ie, to find it, always look for the points of largest conurbation in the hive; search for it in boards with recent postures, always observing the two sides. It is unlikely that the queen finds himself in frames with honey or with mature offspring.