The document provides a step-by-step guide to inspecting a bee hive, beginning with putting on protective gear and gathering equipment like a hive tool and smoker. It describes how to open the hive, remove frames to examine brood patterns and stages, check for eggs, larvae, the queen, honey, pollen, and signs of pests or disease. The inspection aims to assess hive health and determine if the bees need more space or if any issues require attention. When finished, the hive is closed up and notes are taken.
The science that aims to study the life, behavior & activity of honey bee in order to obtain bee products and crop pollination. Honey bee is a social & beneficial insect. They lives in hive.
The science that aims to study the life, behavior & activity of honey bee in order to obtain bee products and crop pollination. Honey bee is a social & beneficial insect. They lives in hive.
Bee keeping - supporting business to Indian farming lekshmi. anil
welcome
1- introduction
2- different spp of honey bees and their characteristics
3-bee keeping and its history
4-methods of bee keeping
5-appliances for bee keeping
6-bee pasturage
7-products of bee keeping( enlisted)
8-diseases and pests of honey bees
9- how bee keeping a supporting business to indian farming
10- success story of bee keeping
11-scopes of bee keeping
This document contain all of the relative information for apiculture which is also known as Beekeeping.
This document contain mostly related topics such as history, taxonomical classification, types of bees, production of honey and structure of hives.
Honey bees are social insects and live in colonies.
A normal colony, during active season is composed of 3 kinds of individuals, which vary in size :
One queen.
Thousands of workers (10000 to 30000 or even more) .
Few hundreds of drones.
In addition, each colony has different developmental stages viz eggs, larvae and pupae which are collectively known as Brood.
A basic introductory overview of honey bees and beekeeping. Some slides specific to Northern California and the San Francisco bay Area. The deck has been used at corporate team-building events along with honey tasting and a live hive inspection.
http://buzzbeekeepingsupplies.com/beekeeping-equipment/ Beekeeping Equipment- Here is a list of equipment needed for beekeeping. Presented by Buzz Beekeeping Supplies
This is a short presentation on the basic components of a modern beehive. It doesn't go into managing bees in any detail, it's mainly meant to give a novice beekeeper an idea of what she should buy to prepare for their first colony.
Bee keeping - supporting business to Indian farming lekshmi. anil
welcome
1- introduction
2- different spp of honey bees and their characteristics
3-bee keeping and its history
4-methods of bee keeping
5-appliances for bee keeping
6-bee pasturage
7-products of bee keeping( enlisted)
8-diseases and pests of honey bees
9- how bee keeping a supporting business to indian farming
10- success story of bee keeping
11-scopes of bee keeping
This document contain all of the relative information for apiculture which is also known as Beekeeping.
This document contain mostly related topics such as history, taxonomical classification, types of bees, production of honey and structure of hives.
Honey bees are social insects and live in colonies.
A normal colony, during active season is composed of 3 kinds of individuals, which vary in size :
One queen.
Thousands of workers (10000 to 30000 or even more) .
Few hundreds of drones.
In addition, each colony has different developmental stages viz eggs, larvae and pupae which are collectively known as Brood.
A basic introductory overview of honey bees and beekeeping. Some slides specific to Northern California and the San Francisco bay Area. The deck has been used at corporate team-building events along with honey tasting and a live hive inspection.
http://buzzbeekeepingsupplies.com/beekeeping-equipment/ Beekeeping Equipment- Here is a list of equipment needed for beekeeping. Presented by Buzz Beekeeping Supplies
This is a short presentation on the basic components of a modern beehive. It doesn't go into managing bees in any detail, it's mainly meant to give a novice beekeeper an idea of what she should buy to prepare for their first colony.
Learning Objectives - This module will help you in understanding Apache Hive Installation, Loading and Querying Data in Hive and so on.
Topics - Hive Architecture and Installation, Comparison with Traditional Database, HiveQL: Data Types, Operators and Functions, Hive Tables (Managed Tables and External Tables, Partitions and Buckets, Storage Formats, Importing Data, Altering Tables, Dropping Tables), Querying Data (Sorting And Aggregating, Map Reduce Scripts, Joins & Subqueries, Views, Map and Reduce side Joins to optimize Query).
The whys and wherefores of bee keeping as a hobby. This presentation covers the basics of cost, timing, benefits and whether you have what it takes to love insects.
Jump Start into Apache Spark (Seattle Spark Meetup)Denny Lee
Denny Lee, Technology Evangelist with Databricks, will demonstrate how easily many Data Sciences and Big Data (and many not-so-Big Data) scenarios easily using Apache Spark. This introductory level jump start will focus on user scenarios; it will be demo heavy and slide light!
If you are considering bees as a hobby or as a sideline business, there are things you will want to keep in mind before making that decision. Since there are many factors involved with making money with the honeybees produce, you might want to start doing it as a hobby. There is a significant amount of money in the start-up of beekeeping. Before investing any amount of money in your beekeeping project, you might want to contact beekeepers in your area. As a rule, they will more than happy to share their experience with you. Most beekeepers love keeping bees and to them, it is just a "hobby", but they can give you some insight into beekeeping. Take plenty of notes. More likely than not you will need them
Week Three --- Managing and Working with Honey BeesDara Dimitrov
This gives you some tips on when to open your hive, what to look for and how to work with your bees -- how to get familiar with the calendar year when working with your bee hive so that you know what you are looking at
4. Gather your equipment A Hive Tool & Smoker Various Helpful Items A hive tool, gloves, smoker, fuel, and a lighter are all the basics Frame rack, frame grip, bee brush, cork to put in smoker, knife, container for all of this!
6. First light the smoker fuel = pine straw Easy lighter = propane
7. How to light the smoker We use pine straw for fuel We use a propane lighter (for the grill) to light the smoker – reliable flame and the long nose on it makes it easy to get a flame into the depths of the smoker
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9. More helpful smoker tips Although not necessary, we use a paper towel impregnated with wax (from the solar wax melter) as a starter Start with a little fuel and add more as you need it
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13. A puff of smoke at hive entry tells the bees that you are coming in
17. Lay the telescoping cover upside down on the ground Stacking boxes catty-corner on top of the upturned top allows you easy access to picking up the boxes and protects the queen from falling onto the ground
18. A frame rack helps observation Hangs on side of hive Easy place to hang 1st frame out of the hive
19. Removing the frames The first frame you take out of the hive box should NOT be the one closest to the side of the box – take out #2 or #9 (if it’s a 10 frame box), #2 or # 7 if eight frame Why? Because when you put the hive back together, the last frame in will be the first frame out. You’ll be sliding the frame in between two frames (pushing bees against other bees) rather than squashing bees against the hard side of the box.
21. Taking out the next to the last frame This should be the choice no matter which side of the box you start with for the inspection.
22. The purpose of an inspection for the beginning beekeeper As beginners our biggest job is to understand what a hive looks like when it is functioning. The more we study what goes on inside the hive box, the better position we are in to know if we need to do something to help the hive.
23. Are the bees are doing what they are supposed to? Building wax, raising young bees, bringing in nectar and pollen, capping honey
24. Are the bees building wax? Whether you use foundation, starter strips, or go foundationless, you want your bees to make wax at the beginning of the season. The wax serves the function of being home to brood that is raised, honey/nectar that is stored, and pollen that is packed away.
26. Watch the bees build wax On left bees festooning They connect via wax from chest cells
27. Next we look at how the bees are using their wax comb Raising brood – workers, drones and queens Storing pollen of all colors Storing nectar and eventually capped honey
28. The queen lays brood constantly Holes in the brood box wax filled with larvae mean that new bees have hatched and the queen has laid new eggs to take their place See the different stages of larvae in the cells?
29. Is there a good brood pattern? Worker brood is flat, light brown, and should be in a football shaped pattern You don’t want to see too many holes in the pattern, although if the holes are filled with new larvae, that’s not a problem
30. Can you see any eggs or young larvae? Young larvae are tiny, c-shaped, worm-like Larvae lie in the bottom of the cells in a liquid food Eggs are in three center cells. The three cells below contain c-shaped larvae
32. Look for worker and drone brood The queen lays eggs all day long. She chooses at each empty cell to lay a fertilized or an unfertilized egg Fertilized egg = worker bee Unfertilized egg = a drone The drone’s only job is to be available to mate with queens from other hives
33. Drone cells are not flat. They are rounded & stand up on the wax
34. Queen cells You may see queen cells – they look like peanuts in the shell Bees often keep a few for insurance in case something happens to their queen or they want to swarm or supersede the current queen Queen cell in each of these photos
46. In addition to learning about your hive, the inspection is also about trying to determine if there are any problems with the hive Are there intruders: small hive beetles, roaches, wax moths? Is there disease or indication of weakness due to Varroa mites Do the bees need more space to grow or to store honey?
47. The small hive beetle You’ll have them in your hives Here’s one with the audacity to be beside the Queen!)
48. When you see a small hive beetle….. Smash it, crush it, step on it! SMASH IT WITH YOUR HIVE TOOL !
49. Wax moths Wax moths in your hive mean the hive is weak. They wreak havoc quite quickly One solution is to combine the weak hive with a strong one Note: These photos are from a dead hive
50. Varroa mites You can’t always see the Varroa mite but sometimes you do: This one is on the larvae – see the orange “tick” on the larvae body
51. The bee in the center has a red Varroa mite on her back
52. Deformed Wing Virus Vectored by the Varroa mite, makes the bees ‘ wings deformed and useless as in picture – observe the stubby malformed wings
53. You will have the Varroa mite even if you never see it. Natural beekeepers use a powdered sugar shake as part of their inspection about once a month during bee season. The bees groom the powdered sugar off of their bodies, and groom the Varroa mite off of their bodies at the same time.
56. Do your bees need more space for brood or honey production? It often helps to have an empty hive box or super with you on an inspection.
57. When do you add a new hive box? If your bees have drawn out the wax on the foundation or frames in 8 out of 10 frames in a hive box, you’ll need to add another hive box filled with frames to allow the queen more room to lay eggs New box is added to this hive
58. During honey flow, add supers Bees can fill a honey super faster than you can imagine. When the bees have filled most of the frames in the top box with honey, have another frame-filled superready to add.
59. How often should one go into the hives? Not daily!! You are intruding into the bees home and it takes a little while for them to recover – so only about once every week or so during bee season
60. When is the inspection over? When you have accomplished what you opened the hive to do You don’t have to open and disturb every box Mainly you want to know how your bees are doing and if you need to make any changes to promote the well-being of the hive
61. Put the hive back together Put the frames back in hive box in the same order and orientation as you found them. Some beekeepers mark the frames to help keep them in order
62. Slowly slide each box onto the one beneath This allows the box to act as a bulldozer and gives the bees a chance to move rather than be squashed by the oncoming box.
63. Replace the inner cover and the telescoping cover Take any notes you may need for the next visit to that hive, gather up your equipment, put out the smoker, and you’re finished!