Amber Jones - Beekeeping for Beginners: The Beekeepers Guide to learn how to Build your Successful Beehives from Scratch

Beekeeping for Beginners

The Beekeepers Guide to learn how to Build your Successful Beehives from Scratch

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Introduction

I f you, dear reader , decide to do beekeeping, you will have an exciting journey into a world that most people know little about. You will gain knowledge that is worth a lot. Step by step, year after year you will move towards your goal.

The time will come, and one day, going to the apiary, you will realize that your heart works smoothly, and does not tremble, as in the first days. You will see that your movements have become precise and accurate. You know everything, you can do everything. You are calm and joyful and the sting of a bee does not bring you pain, but health. And at that moment you regret not yourself, but think about how a bee died in the protection of the home. Because you love each of them. If you find all this in your future self, know that can become a beekeeper. In the meantime, read about them, about the bees.

A novice beekeeper sometimes resembles a child who has directed all his seething energy to unravel the only secret - what is inside the toy and how its mechanism works there. Such a young scientist walks around a couple of recently acquired hives and experiences how they, poor bees, live in the hive without him? Do they have enough? Is it warm? Do they carry nectar?

There is a lot of energy in a person, and he begins, on business and without it, out of sheer curiosity once a week to check his apiary. Neighbors, if the bees did not reach them, are in awe. Look, how experienced and competent our beekeeper neighbor is! He understands everything in bees, he knows everything! You look, and we will get the honey in the fall.

Honeybee Basics

Meet the Bees - The Bee family

T he activity of the bee family is surprisingly harmonious. Each individual knows its useful area of work and willingly performs it. Day after day, around the clock, without interrupting sleep, bees have been doing their job for many millions of years. Even in winter, when it seems that the bees are in a state of deep dormancy, they selflessly perform work.

I n the hive, in a healthy family of bees, the number of worker bees (all female), according to various sources, at different times of the year ranges from 15 to 135 thousand individuals. This weighs from one and a half to thirteen and a half kg. Year after year, these figures are transferred from publication to publication. I myself did not weigh it, so we will take their word. There are several hundred, or more rarely, thousands of drones (all male). And just one queen bee. Only she can live for 5 - 6 years. The rest of the family is constantly and continuously changing, repeatedly updated even during the course of one year. The role of the drone is simply to mate the hive queen.

T he strength of the family directly depends on the number of bees living in it and is most easily measured in simple kilograms. It is generally accepted that about 2,500 bees weigh 250 g. This number inhabits the interframe space, the gap between two adjacent honeycombs in a bee nest; unit of measure of family strength.