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Is beekeeping for you?
This document provides an overview of beekeeping for beginners. It discusses that beekeeping is accessible to many people and outlines some local regulations. Key considerations for hive placement include safety, sunlight, water access, and flight paths. Common hive types like Langstroth and top bar hives are described. Methods for starting a bee colony include bait hives, packaged bees, nucleus hives, or established hives. The document also discusses hive components, the bee life cycle, winter feeding, common pests and diseases, swarm prevention, honey extraction, and beekeeping associations.
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- 3. Honey Bees are beneficialinsects
- 5. Just about anyonecan be a beekeeper!
- 7. Local Laws andRegulations – Most cities have laws regulating hives – Many neighborhood homeowner associations restrict or limit beekeeping – Missouri has few laws regulating beekeeping
- 9. Location Considerations Safety – awayfrom pets and farm animals – beehives should be far away from sidewalks and fences – suburban home, you should build a wooden fence in front of your hives' entrances about 8 feet tall
- 11. Location Considerations (continued) –Honey bee flight paths – like birds, bees leave droppings. – Sunlight and shade – Water supply – Easy access?
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- 18. Types of Hives: –Langstroth
- 20. Types of Hives: –Top Bar Hive
- 22. Getting Honey Bees Thereare four ways to begin a colony of bees. Start with a swarm. Start with a package of bees. Start with a nuc hive. Start with an established hive.
- 24. Bait hives – certainamount of luck and skill required – can't depend on catching swarm
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- 37. This frame fromthe brood chamber is close to ideal. Honey is stored at the top of the frame Capped brood fills much of the rest of the frame.
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- 40. Bees don't hibernate.They cluster to stay warm during cold weather.
- 41. “Keeping Bees” versus“Having Bees” There is more to keeping bees than putting them in a hive and taking off honey. – feeding – pests – diseases – management to prevent swarming – splitting to grow your apiary
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- 44. Pests – varroa mites –tracheal mites – wax moths – small hive beetles Pests – varroa mites – tracheal mites – wax moths – small hive beetles
- 46. Diseases – Nosema – Brooddiseases – European Foulbrood – American Foulbrood – Chalkbrood
- 47. Swarming - bees fillup on honey - old queen and half of bees leave, settle nearby, send out scouts - usually mid to late morning (can be early afternoon) - may stay 30 minutes to 3 days * Swarms are bad: drop in population, honey production, after-swarms
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