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
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
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
Beekeeping
- Beekeeping Defination
- History Of beekeeping
- Beekeeping in india
- What is bee hives?
- Commercial Methods of bee rearing
- What is an apiary?
- Beekeeping Equipments
- Seasonal Management Of Honey Bees
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
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
Beekeeping
- Beekeeping Defination
- History Of beekeeping
- Beekeeping in india
- What is bee hives?
- Commercial Methods of bee rearing
- What is an apiary?
- Beekeeping Equipments
- Seasonal Management Of Honey Bees
You have opened a hive and found queen cells. First of all, don’t panic and, whatever you do, on NO account adopt the Dalek strategy of ‘exterminate them, exterminate them’! It did not work for the Daleks - they lost out to Dr Who every time - and it will not work for you. Destroying queen cells to prevent swarming never has been and never will be a successful method of swarm control. If you destroy one lot of queen cells the bees will immediately make some more and will probably swarm earlier than normal in their development - often before the first cells are sealed. If you destroy queen cells twice you run the risk of the colony swarming and leaving behind no provision for a new queen.
http://buzzbeekeepingsupplies.com/beekeeping-equipment/ Beekeeping Equipment- Here is a list of equipment needed for beekeeping. Presented by Buzz Beekeeping Supplies
This PPT slideshow covers the following topics: building up the hive, requeening, managing swarms, supering, managing Africanized honey bees (AHB), recognizing honey plants, and pollinating.
Honey Production led by Grant Gillard of Jackson, MO, for the Will County Beekeepers on February 18th, 2017 at the Weitendorf Agricultural Education Center.
You have opened a hive and found queen cells. First of all, don’t panic and, whatever you do, on NO account adopt the Dalek strategy of ‘exterminate them, exterminate them’! It did not work for the Daleks - they lost out to Dr Who every time - and it will not work for you. Destroying queen cells to prevent swarming never has been and never will be a successful method of swarm control. If you destroy one lot of queen cells the bees will immediately make some more and will probably swarm earlier than normal in their development - often before the first cells are sealed. If you destroy queen cells twice you run the risk of the colony swarming and leaving behind no provision for a new queen.
http://buzzbeekeepingsupplies.com/beekeeping-equipment/ Beekeeping Equipment- Here is a list of equipment needed for beekeeping. Presented by Buzz Beekeeping Supplies
This PPT slideshow covers the following topics: building up the hive, requeening, managing swarms, supering, managing Africanized honey bees (AHB), recognizing honey plants, and pollinating.
Honey Production led by Grant Gillard of Jackson, MO, for the Will County Beekeepers on February 18th, 2017 at the Weitendorf Agricultural Education Center.
Honey Production: How to produce a ton of honey. NEOBA presentation by Grant Gillard on February 10, 2020 in Tulsa, OK. Principles of beekeeping that lead to better production for increasing honey yields.
A Ton of Honey by Grant Gillard, formerly of Jackson, MO, now living in Holden, MO. This talk was given at Monroeville, PA, for the Western PA Beekeepers Association on February 16, 2019. He can be reached at grantfcgillard@gmail.com
"Me and Mel" power point talk, Grant GillardGrant Gillard
Mel Disselkoen pioneered a wonderfully radical, revolutionary beekeeping practice he calls the "OTS Queen Rearing: A Survival Guide for Beekeepers Worldwide." OTS refers to his on-the-spot method of queen rearing. Grant Gillard, a beekeeper in Jackson, Missouri, since 1981, adapted Mel's system and found incredible results to his efficiency. He found he was working smarter, not necessarily harder. Grant's web site can be found at www.grantgillard.weebly.com and his e-mail is gillard5@charter.net, Grant speaks at beekeeping conferences all around the nation. You may contact him at gillard5@charter.net to arrange his visit to your next meeting,
Liquidations, Companies Act 1996 (NZ), Receivership, directors in liquidation, receivers duties, liquidator duties, powers of liquidators and receivers and New Zealand, Receivership Act (NZ
Receivership, Liquidations and Voluntary Administration (VA)Dara Dimitrov
Differences between receivers and liquidators,
Duties of receivers, powers of receivers,
Voluntary Administration and the Deed of Company Arrangement (DOCA)
NZ Companies Act 1996 and Liquidation, Winding up of the company, reporting duties of liquidator, the liquidation process and powers of the liquidators
Financial Markets Authority New Zealand (2) 2014Dara Dimitrov
Financial Markets Authority New Zealand; the relationship to Financial Market Participants; their key activities, the impact of their activities, the difference between red tape and green tape compliance Market Misconduct and the effects; A list of the key regulatory bodies (but not limited to) that the FMA has relationships with
Financial accounting, balance sheet, position statement, performance statement, income sheet, assets, liabilities, expenses, revenues, costs of goods sold
Putting down a Hangi - Earth Oven CookingDara Dimitrov
how to cook a hangi...quantities for hangi..what is in a hangi. this quick little slideshow provides the know-how to put down a hangi for a fundraiser :)
Week Seven: Disease in Bee hives - your legal obligations (New Zealand)
Week two – Honey Bees in Bee Hives
1. Week Two – Bees in Hives
What a healthy hive looks like
Dara K. Dimitrov
dkd4@waikato.ac.nz
2. Honey Bee – Apis Melifera
Distinguished by
the production and storage of honey
Construction perennial, colonial (hive) nests made from
wax
3. Bees in the Hive
Queen Bee
16 days to emerge
from cell
- Can live up to 3 years
-
Newly hatched queen
needs to make a mating
flight – she will collect
approx. 100m sperm
within her oviducts
4. The “Girls” in the Hive
-
Forager bees
House keeping bees
Heater bees
Queen carer bees
- They are sterile and don‟t lay
eggs
21 days to emerge from eggs –
summer bees live 6 weeks –
winter bees can live up to 6
months
5. The „Boys‟ in the Hive
Drones mate with the queen
- On mating he loses his
endophallus (in the Queen) and
dies
- The next male has to remove the
previous endophallus, mate and
will eventually die too
Emerge 24 days
from egg and can
live up to 4
months
6. Make Up
of the Hive
The bees will instinctively build wax cells – honey comb
The queen will lay an egg in each cell – the egg sticks to
the ceiling of the cell
Worker bees fill the cells with royal jelly to prevent the
eggs from falling
Worker bees are fed royal jelly for the first 2 days of life
(larvae) while Queens are fed royal jelly through out the
larval life
The development of each member of a hive depends on
the caste of the larvae – drone, workers or Queens
7.
8. Lifecycle of the Bee
Egg is laid and royal jelly is packed around the egg
Larvae hatches out and is fed by young worker bees
The Larvae will undergo several moulting's before
spinning a cocoon within the cell and pupating – the cell
is capped
Worker bee hatches out – or Queen – or Drone
9.
10. Bee Brood & Patterns
The temperature in the hive is important – a constant 37
degrees (so don’t open the hive on cold or windy days)
Imagine the hive brood box is a round loaf of bread - so
when you look at a frame with brood – it is like looking at
one slice of bread from the loaf of bread
The frames in the middle of the box will have the largest
number of brood cells while the frames at the outer edge
have the less (the centre of the loaf)
Typical frame will have
Brood in the centre (circular pattern concentrated)
Pollen will be stored next to and around the brood
Honey will be stored above it and to the edges of it
Drone brood is usually found at the sides
14. Single or Double Brood Boxes?
Double brood boxes gives the queen more room to lay
Higher bee numbers
Greater honey gathering capacity
BUT if low bee numbers the hive gets cold
More space to be heated
15. Species of Bees
There are over 20,000 different species of bees in the world
The ones you will deal with will be either
Italian Bees (smallish –yellow - cute)
English Black Bees (large – black)
Carnolian Bees (medium – cute-ish)
16. Selection of bees
Most of the time – its what you can buy
Carnolian bees
Moderate temperament – depends on the time of the year
Good honey harvests
English Black bees
Quite big in comparison to other bee species
Quite aggressive – will defend the hive vigorously
Gathers awesome amounts of honey very quickly
Italian bees
Smaller
Don’t gather honey as quickly as the other species
More passive bees (passive in relation to other bee species)
17. Placement of the Hives
Which direction – it doesn’t matter
BUT
Avoid windy places - it will make the hives stressed
Avoid the deep shade to moderate shade –
Direct sunlight is not a problem
Make sure the ground is flat (the hive will fall over
especially if you get a bit of height on them)
On pallets?? Yes you can – but you don’t have to
How close – back to back –with the entrances at opposite
sides
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20. Other considerations
Easily accessible come honey harvest time – it will be a
mission to heave the honey boxes up a steep hill!
Good drainage – firm dry land – that does get water
logged or flooded
Good source of water near by – the bees need water to
build wax, dilute the honey if it is too thick and to cool
the hive in the summer when it is hot.
Be mindful of your neighbour’s pool
21. A chicken water
feeder –
You can place some gravel or
small pebbles in the tray to
provide steps for the bees to
drink from
22.
23. Next Week
Managing and working with the bees
The bee calendar year – timing is everything