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    Beekeeping for Beginners: The Beekeeper’s Guide to learn how to Build your Successful Beehives from Scratch
    Beekeeping for Beginners: The Beekeeper’s Guide to learn how to Build your Successful Beehives from Scratch
    Beekeeping for Beginners: The Beekeeper’s Guide to learn how to Build your Successful Beehives from Scratch
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    Beekeeping for Beginners: The Beekeeper’s Guide to learn how to Build your Successful Beehives from Scratch

    By Amber Jones

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    Is accurate, well-detailed bee work a desire for you? What you need to know and do for the first time, and subsequently, this book will tell.

     

    This book is intended for those who are just about to acquire skills, who voluntarily agree to be an apprentice to bees in a conditional time period from zero to (how it turns out) years when there is nobody to consult with anyone other than the book . 

     

    Take a sneak peek at a few of the details inside:

     

    • Buying bees - Where and how much to buy hives?
    • Bee care - Avoiding stings
    • The beekeeping tasks
    • How to inspect a hive
    • Beekeeping calendar
    • Swarming of bees
    • Preparing a new hive
    • Pumping honey
    • Special operations for wintertime
    • Introducing a new queen
    • Combining beehives
    • Protecting bees and beehives from bears
    • Propolis, beeswax and royal jelly facts and uses
    • Medicinal properties, collection and storage of bee venom
    • AND MUCH MORE!

     

    The novice beekeeper makes the most mistakes from ignorance and fear. Fear of being stung, fear of crushing the bees, fear of a developed hive and much that frightens, passes only with repeated repetition of the past

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBM eCommerce Management
    Release dateApr 4, 2020
    ISBN9781393257950
    Beekeeping for Beginners: The Beekeeper’s Guide to learn how to Build your Successful Beehives from Scratch

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      Beekeeping for Beginners - Amber Jones

      Beekeeping for Beginners

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      The Beekeeper’s Guide to learn how to Build your Successful Beehives from Scratch

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Honeybee Basics

      Meet the Bees - The Bee family

      The Lifecycle

      The difference between the queen and other bees

      The Working bee

      The Hive

      Apiary location

      Beehive location

      Which hive to choose?

      The Langstroth hive

      The Warre hive

      The Top Bar hive

      Old beehive in a village apiary

      Where and how much to buy hives ?

      The recommended beekeeping online suppliers

      Bee care - Avoiding stings

      The beekeeping tasks

      The beekeeping Calendar

      How to inspect a hive

      How to assemble your beehive for beekeeping

      Open hive weather conditions

      How Bees Make Honey

      The Honey

      Honey type 1

      Honey type 2

      Honey type 3

      Honey composition

      Fake honey

      Beekeeping Calendar

      Spring

      March

      April

      May

      Summer

      June

      July

      August

      Autumn

      September

      October

      November

      Winter

      December

      January

      February

      Feeding for bees

      First nectar and first pollen

      Summer chores

      Swarming of Bees

      Event time

      Why is this happening?

      Reason for swarming

      What does it look like?

      What do you need to have ready?

      Your actions

      False swarm

      New queen bees in swarms

      Preparing a new hive

      From Field to Harvest - What happens inside the hive?

      Range of flight

      Flight speed and altitude

      The end of the main honey collection

      How to extract honey from your beehive

      Special Operations for Tough Times – Winter

      Winter waiting

      Bee death

      Beehive temperature

      Water and humidity

      Carbon dioxide and the gas regime of a beehive

      Honey for wintering

      Top Dressing

      Prevention of crystallization of honey

      Wintering in the wild

      Winter beekeeping

      Wintering visit

      Supplies for Beekeeping Beginners

      Main inventory

      Honey extractor

      Frame carrying box

      Smoker

      Beekeeping knife, roller or special fork

      Feeders

      Spur rink

      Chippers

      Separation grid

      Beekeeping chisel

      Puncher or awl

      Honey strainers

      Front mesh

      Protective jumpsuit or suit

      Rubber gloves

      Working Around Special Issues You May Encounter

      Introducing a new queen

      Combining beehives

      Protecting bees and beehives from bears

      Other Key Details and Tips for the Amateur (and every) Bee Keeper

      Propolis

      Beeswax

      Royal jelly

      Bee venom

      The costs of setting up and maintaining a hive

      Conclusion

      © Copyright by Amber Jones - All rights reserved

      This Book is provided with the sole purpose of providing relevant information on a specific topic for which every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that it is both accurate and reasonable. Nevertheless, by purchasing this Book you consent to the fact that the author, as well as the publisher, are in no way experts on the topics contained herein, regardless of any claims as such that may be made within. As such, any suggestions or recommendations that are made within are done so purely for entertainment value. It is recommended that you always consult a professional prior to undertaking any of the advice or techniques discussed within.

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      Furthermore, the contents of this document are solely for informative purposes only and hence should be regarded as universal. As such, the information is given without the guarantee of its validity or interim quality.

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      Introduction

      If 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.

      Beekeeper is holding up wooden frame with bees to control situation in bee colony.

      Honeybee Basics 

      Meet the Bees - The Bee family

      The 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.

      What to Do When Your Beehive Needs a New Queen

      In 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.

      Backyard Bee Keeping: 3 Types of Bees in a Colony

      The 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.

      At the same time, in the hive, as among people, a continuous process is going on: some are born, others die. It is important

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