Backwards Beekeepers FAQ 2 About Honey Bees: All the sort of things you might be interested in as a non-beekeeper. I wrote this FAQ before I'd ever heard of FAQ's and I called it 'Common Questions about Honey Bees'. When collecting swarms I would chat to the panicking 'victims' and generally win them around to being interested in the life of the honey bee. This was OK but I soon realised that people were often asking the same questions and sometimes I didn't have time to give the whole answer. Eventually I got around to writing down all the answers to the typical questions asked. Welcome to Apimondia website Bee Pollen helps avoid allergies, increase…
Diary of a novice bee-keeper Beekeeping beekeeping in Serbia Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin: apis "bee") is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. A beekeeper (or apiarist) keeps bees in order to collect their honey and other products that the hive produces (including beeswax, propolis, pollen, and royal jelly), to pollinate crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers. A location where bees are kept is called an apiary or "bee yard". Depictions of humans collecting honey from wild bees date to 15,000 years ago, efforts to domesticate them are shown in Egyptian art around 4,500 years ago. History of beekeeping[edit] At some point humans began to attempt to domesticate wild bees in artificial hives made from hollow logs, wooden boxes, pottery vessels, and woven straw baskets or "skeps". There was an unsuccessful attempt to introduce bees to Mesopotamia in the 8th century BCE by Shamash-resh-ușur, the governor of Mari and Suhu. Origins[edit] Wild honey harvesting[edit]
Bee propolis contains all the vitamins and… www.montybees.org.uk Beesource.com - Beekeeping Resources For Beekeepers Since 1997! Queen bees An isolation mating programme was set up for the production of queens during 2005 enabling Queens to be available for sale in limited numbers. These bees are good tempered and as they are the native bee in the UK, are best suited to our climate. They fly in cooler conditions and over winter well. Far superior to the poor quality imported bees, or bad tempered cross-breeds! Beekeepers please call if you are interested in buying queens, or if you want to join our queen rearing group. Queens fully booked for 2010, as we are supplying local beekeepers to improve local bees. Honey Date and Nut Cake This cake has a craggy broken top. Our bees have been busy. Contact:Geoff Critchley15 Lon Cilan, Cilcain, Mold, CH7 5PL.Tel: 01352 740991.E-mail:Geoff@HoneyHouse.biz Click on the photo for a larger image.
The Early History of Beekeeping History of Wild Bees and Beekeeping The beekeeper is the keeper of bee collection of honey and the other products that bees product in the hive like beeswax, pollen, and royal jelly. Another product of bees is for resale to other beekeeper. The location of where bees are housed is called an apiary or beeyard. The collecting honey dates back 15,000 years ago, Egyptian art shows beekeeping around 4,500 years ago. Wild bees became domesticated in artificial hive like logs, wooden boxes, pottery, and woven baskets. The Greece apiculture found smoking pots, honey extractors in Knossos; Beekeeping was a highly valued industry. In China the art of beekeeping recorded the importance of quality of wooden boxes if improved the quality of the honey. There are more than 20,000 different species of wild bees. With breeding bees some companies will achieve a selectively breeding and hybridize varieties are disease and parasite resistance, which produces good honey, swarming behavior reduction.
British Bee Keepers Association endorses Bayer pesticides January 10 2011 Since 2001, the British Bee Keepers Association has been receiving in the region of £17,500 per annum from pesticide manufacturers Bayer, Syngenta, BASF and Belchim in return for the BBKA's endorsement of several insecticides as 'bee-friendly'. The BBKA policy of accepting money from such corporations, taken without consulting the membership, has been condemned by many of its members, other European bee keeping associations and some NGOs as unethical. While the Executive have now changed their mind again and claim to be about to drop the direct endorsement of pesticides, they have not ruled out accepting money from pesticide manufacturers under other pretexts. And there are still some very important questions that remain unanswered. We call on the BBKA to sever all financial ties to manufacturers, sellers and promoters of any substance known to be or likely to be toxic to bees or other insects. Philip Chandler, Friends of the Bees Dr. This letter is supported by: Yours