This document provides information on how to be an urban beekeeper. It discusses choosing a site, necessary equipment, getting started with beekeeping, inspecting hives, extracting honey and other hive products, common diseases and pests, and the seasonal aspects of beekeeping. The overall message is that urban beekeeping is possible with the right preparation, equipment, knowledge of local laws and regulations, and ongoing hive management and inspection.
learn about bee friendly practices, top bar hives and how to manage bees when the well being of the bees is more important than harvesting the honey. See how developing countries are using the top bar hive as a cheap alternative to the langstroth hive
Swarm is a collection of huge honey bees or other flying insects, which moves together at a single place.
To catch the honey bees, it is very important to take a help of honey bee removal professional. There are some very important points that you all need to keep in mind before removing or relocating the honey bee swarm.
Bee Keeping for Business - Not Just Honey in That Hive - Presented by Michael...DiegoFooter
Bee keeping as a hobby is not only growing, but is big money. From the sale of honey to bees themselves, let me take you on the adventure of how to capitalize on bee keeping that is good for the bees and you.
Bee keeping is a growing hobby. With TV, Radio, Movies, books, and discussion on the loss of the honey bee population around the world, it is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. I am not here to tell you about CCD, (Colony Collapse Disorder) because I have never experienced it myself.
I want to tell you my first hand experiences with bees, from the loss of not knowing how to be a good keeper of the bees, to making an inner city home stead centered around the little girls super profitable. How to grow a small hobby Apiary, or back yard hive into a money making company. I want to show you how to take your starting products to the people, and how to develop new ideas in this art of bee keeping. That it is not being the millionaire, but being able to turn your hobbies, no matter what they are, into your job, and your job more into a hobby.
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com.
All about honey bees like their function,biology,pollination,threats to honeybees,which problems we will face in the absence of honey bees,importance of honeybees and the conclusion that we must have to save our bees so that the flowernig plants get pollinated
learn about bee friendly practices, top bar hives and how to manage bees when the well being of the bees is more important than harvesting the honey. See how developing countries are using the top bar hive as a cheap alternative to the langstroth hive
Swarm is a collection of huge honey bees or other flying insects, which moves together at a single place.
To catch the honey bees, it is very important to take a help of honey bee removal professional. There are some very important points that you all need to keep in mind before removing or relocating the honey bee swarm.
Bee Keeping for Business - Not Just Honey in That Hive - Presented by Michael...DiegoFooter
Bee keeping as a hobby is not only growing, but is big money. From the sale of honey to bees themselves, let me take you on the adventure of how to capitalize on bee keeping that is good for the bees and you.
Bee keeping is a growing hobby. With TV, Radio, Movies, books, and discussion on the loss of the honey bee population around the world, it is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. I am not here to tell you about CCD, (Colony Collapse Disorder) because I have never experienced it myself.
I want to tell you my first hand experiences with bees, from the loss of not knowing how to be a good keeper of the bees, to making an inner city home stead centered around the little girls super profitable. How to grow a small hobby Apiary, or back yard hive into a money making company. I want to show you how to take your starting products to the people, and how to develop new ideas in this art of bee keeping. That it is not being the millionaire, but being able to turn your hobbies, no matter what they are, into your job, and your job more into a hobby.
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com.
All about honey bees like their function,biology,pollination,threats to honeybees,which problems we will face in the absence of honey bees,importance of honeybees and the conclusion that we must have to save our bees so that the flowernig plants get pollinated
http://buzzbeekeepingsupplies.com/beekeeping-equipment/ Beekeeping Equipment- Here is a list of equipment needed for beekeeping. Presented by Buzz Beekeeping Supplies
These slides are from Robert "Bob" Borkowski's "Beekeeping 101" workshop, presented through the Institute of Applied Agriculture at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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
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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.
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http://buzzbeekeepingsupplies.com/beekeeping-equipment/ Beekeeping Equipment- Here is a list of equipment needed for beekeeping. Presented by Buzz Beekeeping Supplies
These slides are from Robert "Bob" Borkowski's "Beekeeping 101" workshop, presented through the Institute of Applied Agriculture at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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
What a healthy hive looks like -- what sort of bees live in the hive, what healthy brood looks like, where to place your hives so that you can manage them
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.
THE PLACE OF HONEY BEES IN THE WORLD is a PPT slideshow by Dr. Kristen Healy, Entomology Specialist with the LSU AgCenter. This PPT describes the classification of honey bees, the origin of honey bees, and the common types of bees. This PPT also has a table that compares the advantages and disadvantages of honey bees races.
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2. A bit about me
Started in Nedlands
backyard 16 years
ago
Taste of honey was
so superior
Hobby turned into
obsession
Apprenticed myself
out
150 hives and Elixir
4. 3.How to be an Urban Beekeeper
Urban Beekeeping
5. How to be an urban beekeeper
Why & who
Laws & regulations
Choosing a site & neighbours
Protective clothing
Beekeeping equipment
Getting started
Extracting honey etc
What to do when
Disease & pests
6. Why urban beekeeping?
Best tasting honey you
will ever eat
antidote to hayfever
Free apitherapy
Help bees
Get closer to nature
Great for gardens
Reduce feral hives
7. Beekeepers in my experience
All sorts
Environmental leanings
Source of food important
Independent
Inventive
Tinkers
Tight fisted
Timewise = veggie
patch
8. Find out the Laws & regulations in your
area
“A person who owns, or has the charge, care or
possession of, bees or any hive that contains, or
has contained, bees is a “beekeeper”, and is
required, within 14 days after becoming a
“beekeeper”, to apply to be registered as such
(Beekeepers Act 1963, sec.8).”
An excerpt from the Western Australian Beekeeper Act 1963 -
9. Choosing a site
Urban gardens, rooftops,
commercial properties
Out of site out of mind
Camouflage paint
Screen/hedge
Water
Entrance out of way
Family needs to know
Neighbours
15. Getting started – inspecting
Every 6 weeks
Protective gear
Smoker
Gently lid off
Puff if bees fly up
Find queen
16. Inspecting – look for brood
Eggs
If eggs
you
know
there’s a
queen
17. Inspecting – look for brood
Larva
Felt-like brood
capping
If no brood –
worry about
queen – may
need a new one
18. Inspecting – look for honey & pollen
Uncappe
d honey
Capped
honey
Brood
Pollen
19. On it goes – building up
Adding supers
Queen excluder
Honey supers
When is it ready to
extract?
¾ capped off
<20% moisture
Beware bad weather
20. Extracting honey/honeycomb
Get bees off frames to
extract
Shake
Bee brush
Extract in closed place
near water (use no
detergents)
When your top super is full
it is time to extract
Bees don’t want to give you
their honey. So bee-aware.
Protective clothes
Clearing boards
21. Extracting honey – a bucket of honey
Cut cappings – put in
bucket
Extract
spin out honey
both sides of frame
Put honey in bucket
with honey gate
Settle
Jar – treasure each jar
22. Apitherapy & Royal Jelly
Apitherapy - health benefits from bee stings
Royal Jelly is what transforms bee into queen
Both have ‘legendary’ health benefits - not
convinced myself
23. Trap Pollen
Best form of veg
protein
Pollen trap
Empty weekly
Dry under net
Salmonella
Store in freezer
24. Extracting Beeswax
Melt cappings
Very FLAMMABLE!
Beekeepers used to
earn more for
beeswax than they
did for honey
(church candles)
Used for:
Foundation &
holding in frames
Lip balms
Cosmetics
Polish
Candles
26. The season & your hive
Spring - exciting
Inspect
Extract?
Summer – chugs along
Extract
Water
Collecting outside hive okay
Autumn – bee aware of weather
change
Extract
Requeen
Winter – ensure honey for bees
Feed
Reduce
Maintenance
27. Diseases & Pests - AFB
American Foul Brood
Endemic world wide
Ropey goo
Need to burn or wax
dip.
Barrier system stops
spread.
See:
http://agspsrv34.agric
.wa.gov.au/ento/bee.
htm
FIND OUT WHAT DISEASES AND
PESTS ARE IN YOUR AREA – THE
LOCAL DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE WILL HAVE THIS
INFORMATION
28. Diseases & Pests – Chalk Brood
Air borne disease
Brood mummifies
Most well bred
queens can deal with
it
If persists requeen
29. Diseases & Pests – Wax Moth
Destructive pest
Comes into hive on
pollen
Strong hives can cope
Weak hives wax moth
larva eats drawn out
comb
30. Diseases & Pests – Beware
Not yet here (in
Western Australia) /only
just:
Hive beetle
Colony Collapse
Disorder
EFB
Varroa Mites
31. To bee or not to bee
Knowledge and
commitment are key
WAAS/ local
beekeeping group
Register
Be safe
Set up
Be diligent & inspect
And above all…
Editor's Notes
Bee Beards: Slightly less dangerous than bee pubes. Just something to think about.
It is said beekeepers live a long time
Web not in notes
http://offices.ext.vt.edu/carroll/programs/anr/beekeeping/fell_bee_diseases.pdf – a ppt from USA with all diseases, good pictures and some heavy antibiotic treatment recommendations.
