Bee Honey Extraction

When you begin your beekeeping project to produce bee honey ,you should prepare some important tools that will help you to perform your work professionally .  A bee honey extractor is one of these tools that you will need in beekeeping project , it is basically a modified centrifuge which is designed to extract honey from the frames without damaging the honey comb. The extractor includes a container that holds a basket of frames in it, which spins throwing the honey out of the frames by the centrifugal force.   You will find honey extractors with different capacities  depending on the number of frames in there containers : - Small capacity extractor : contains two –frames at least , it is used manually...

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How to Acquire Honey Bees For Sale ?

If you love beekeeping hobby and want to start out as a beekeeper, the first task that must be completed is to obtain the hives and equipment that you will need to harvest bees , then you can begin the process of acquiring bees. There are four options you can choose from them when you are going to get honey bees for sale : 1- Colonies : This option may be the quickest and the easiest for the beginners in beekeeping . You will start beekeeping with complete working hives containing all the bees that you will need to get started.  This includes a queen bee, worker bees, and drones as well as framing. Colonies are available for purchase from local beekeepers or from other suppliers that you may found online. 2- Package of bees : This...

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Carniolan Bees 0r Western Honey Bees –what are the best for raising ?

When you start growing your own honey bees in the city for producing honey and pollinating your trees and flowers , There are many Reasons to Raise Carniolan Bees Instead of Italian (Western) Honey Bees .  Carniolans, or Carnies, a subspecies ( Apis mellifera carnica). -Raising Carniolan Bees is preferred to avoid pollination problems occure with the vanishing honey bees. -These bees Can be kept in urban areas because they are very calm and non aggressive in its behavior toward beekeepers and other people.-They are very strong in defending them selves against insect pests .-More resistant to brood diseases, Varroa mites and other...

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How To Identify Beehive Pests &Parasites Early ?

There are various pests that can affect your hives from functioning optimally so in this article I'm going to touch base on a few.  1-Varroa Mites : Is an external parasitic mite that attacks honey bees. The disease caused by the mites is called varroatosis. The adult mite is reddish-brown in color; has a flat, button shape; is 1–1.8 mm long and 1.5–2 mm wide; and has eight legs. This parasite is common in new colonies. delayed treatment of these parasites gives them the ability to build up resistance to any form of treatment that's applied in the future. If an infected colony is not treated it will be wiped out within three years . Varroa Mites has reached epidemic levels all over the world . 2- Wax Moth : Although...

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Propolis - Health Benefits

Propolis is one of bee products and is used as natural antibiotic in the application of home remedies.  Honey bees produce propolis by collecting sticky resins that ooze from the buds of some trees and plants. After chewing them and mixing them with their saliva and other substances, propolis is formed. Some trees and conifers produce these sticky resins as part of their immune system defending themselves against diseases . Propolis is used inside the hive for sterilizing the hive against diseases and infections by inhibiting the spread of bacteria, virus, and fungi . Propolis is also known as 'bee glue',as it is used as a "putty" to seal cracks and openings in the hive and to strengthen and repair honeycombs . Propolis...

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The Bee Honey - The Health Facts!

Bee honey is probably the best natural product, the bees produce honey from the nectar that collected from the flowers The bees ingest the nectar and deposit it in their stomach, then return to the colony to surrender it. Bee honey is easily digested and readily assimilated by humans, comprising a healthy source of energy. Bee honey consumed as food is important for the balance of the biological process of the organism. It contains glucose and fructose, which goes directly into the blood. Bee honey is used by people suffering from diabetes as a natural sweetener and as safety source of energy . Bee honey helps in the control of rheumatism and arthritis, prevents many types of respiratory disorders, and aids the digestion. Bee honey may...

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How To Diagnose Beehive Diseases Early ?

All Professional  beekeepers inspect their beehives and colonies regularly for diseases & pests that can pose a threat to their colonies and they don't just assume that the drop in honey production or a decline in bee population is attributed to the above factors only. Nutritional deficiency and Pesticides can be other contributing reasons, so it's essential that sufficient knowledge is attained to be able to differentiate which is what and how to deal with it. The bee's lifecycle can be divided into two phases which is the larval phase and the adult phase and each phase is susceptible to its own set diseases Bees Diseases : (1) European Foul Brood  : Is caused by : bacterium melissococcus plutonius the bacteria...

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Cell Phone Kills Bees

While we are talking in our cell phones and feel that these phones are very useful and very important in our daily life,  there is some evidence that cell phone radiation can be dangerous for people, as well as bees. Studies have found that the  electromagnetic radiations coming from cell phones, can heat and damage tissues, as well as possibly cause other diseases for people in the long term, including cancer, brain tumors, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and more. People are not the only beings that are affected by cell phones, however. Some evidence has found that the radiation that comes from cell phones can also kill bees, causing many problems in the environment . Honeybees pollinate crops and other plants, which helps...

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Bees and Their Effect on Us and Our Environment

Bees play a very important role in the world food supply. These small and incredibly busy insects are responsible for the way that we are able to get food and keep it. Pollination is fundamental to sexual production in plants, Pollination is therefore essential for agriculture and environmental management, and a variety of pollinators are required to maintain reproduction across a broad spectrum of plant species. Bees have such close relationships or connections with certain plants that if this connection or relation was to be broken, those plants would become extinct. Recent years have brought dramatic decline to the bee population; this decline can be attributed to intensive methods of farming where the increased use of pesticides...

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Bee Pollen-- The Amazing Health Benefits

Bee pollen is Produced by flowering plants, pollen granules stick to the bees' legs and other parts as they go about their business of gathering nectar and are collected from bees as they enter the hive. Bee pollen contains all of the nutrients needed to sustain life. It is rich in vitamins and contains almost all known minerals, trace elements, enzymes, and amino acids. More specifically, it contains 35% protein, 55% carbohydrates, 2% fatty acids, and 3% minerals and vitamins. It has been noted to have a high concentration of vitamins A, C, D, and E, and it is extraordinary rich in the B-complex vitamins. In addition, bee pollen has antioxidant properties. However, bee pollen's composition may vary depending on plant sources and...

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Raising Queen Bees - a profitable project

Queen bees are the most important member in the bee colony. Raising queen bees needs your full attention as you are raising very delicate creatures.Beginners in beekeeping can buy their bees in different forms depending on their budget, their experience, and how much time they are able to dedicate to their project.  Raising queen bees is more difficult than raising a colony. Queen bees need more attention and experience as you must separate any queen that appears from the colony to start forming a new colony.  If you want to see your colony producing honey as soon as possible, then you need to buy a complete colony to start with.   The complete colony contains one queen bee, several thousands of worker bees, and some...

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Bee Pollen or Bee Bread

What is Bee Pollen? Bee pollen contains trace amounts of minerals and vitamins and is very high in protein and carbohydrates.Bee pollen is not found in the everyday diet. It is found in nutritional supplements and Chinese herbal medicine products.   Bee Pollen is consisting of pollen that has been packed by worker honeybees into granules, with added honey or nectar, and is used in naturopathic medicine traditions as a nutritional supplement, although exposure may trigger allergic or anaphylactic reactions in sensitive people.  Why Do People Use Bee Pollen?  Bee pollen has been used to enhance energy, memory and performance, although there is no scientific evidence that it does.  The benefits of bee pollen and allergy...

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The Buzz About Using Bee Venom In Alternative Apitherapy

Apitherapy, coming from the Latin word for bee, focuses on the medical use of various bee products to cure a myriad of health problems The treatment use of honey bee venom therapy is based on the long-known fact that bee-keepers    ( who often get stung ) very rarely develop arthritis or problems with their joints and musclesApitoxin, or honey bee venom, is a bitter colorless liquid.The active portion of the venom is a complex mixture of proteins, which causes local inflammation and acts as an anticoagulant.The venom is produced in the abdomen of worker bees from a mixture of acidic and basic secretions. Apitoxin is acidic (pH 4.5 to 5.5). A honeybee can...

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Using honey in wound care

Over the past several years, wound care has changed a lot, and is constantly evolving. The day of the simple gauze dressing is pretty much over! There are many fantastic new wound treatments out there today that were unheard of just a few years ago.   There are several alternative, and quite old-fashioned treatments for wounds that have been slowly gaining in popularity after having fallen into disuse for many years.   Wound care continues to be a challenge today, and many standard treatments are just not providing the expected results. Wounds can become infected with bacteria that are resistant to the standard prescribed antibiotics. That continues to be a challenge.   One of these old-fashioned treatments that have once...

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three Common Honey Bee Types

Learning about the different types of bees can help in identifying which ones are more suitable for beekeeping than others. Certain bees don't tolerate a lot of disturbance while others do. Within this article I hope to give you some indication about three common honey bees' types as well as the two other types as far as behavioral differences are concerned. Behavioral dimension : There are effectively two known types of bees if one considers the behavioral dimension. In fact, there are solitary bees and social ones. What are solitary bees and what are social bees? Solitary bees are bees that do not live in a colony Social bees do the contrary, meaning that the queen the workers and the drones live all in a colony. Disturbance Level...

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What is Apitherapy and Its Benefits?

There are literally hundreds of alternative therapies that are available for people to try. However one of the least known and probably accepted therapies is apitherapy. What is Apitherapy? Apitherapy or bee therapy is the basically the use of bee products to treat different conditions. There are a number of products that can have health benefits and be used in apitherapy and they include pollen, raw honey and royal jelly however the main one used is bee venom. The use of bee products and in particular bee venom dates back to ancient Greece, Egypt and China. In fact it is believed that Hippocrates who is considered to be the father of medicine actually used bee stings to treat people for conditions such as arthritis. In addition...

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How To Choose The Best Beekeeping Books

To start a serious beekeeping business, some great literature on the topic will be one of your priorities.  While much of keeping and managing these little flying insects is hands on, the topic requires a small wealth of knowledge for the best success. When you are first getting started, this can feel like an overwhelming task - even for the hobbyist.  Where is the best place to get the most reliable information? Your local library will likely have a section on the topic, but it may be too much of a trip for you. It can also be annoying when the book you really want to read has already been checked out. You can research online as well, but this can take a lot of time. There are may facets to beekeeping that will come up in...

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Life of a Carniolan Queen Bee

Carniolan Queen Bee is a big lady who dares to kill and spends her entire life to do nothing else than mating and laying eggs while well served and fed by the worker bees. The metamorphosis of queen bees : Before a female bee becomes a queen she will go through a metamorphosis from an egg to a stage of a mature queen which will occur in about 23 days.  The phases include: egg - larva - capping of the queen cell - pupa - emerging pupa, virgin queen bee - nuptial flight - a mature queen bee ready to lay eggs. In fact, those are the worker bees that make queens.  After a queen bee has laid eggs in queen cups, the worker bees start to select which among all those larvae should be developed to be queens.  They will then...

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Life Cycle Of Honey Bees .

Three Things Successful Beekeepers Know : 1. The unique life cycle of the honey bee : The queen bee lays eggs in the octagonal shaped cells and the eggs get attached to the wall of the cell with a strand of mucus. During spring when the eggs are being laid, the queen bee can lay up to 1900 eggs in a day.  The egg remains in the cell until it hatches and there emerges a larva. There are nurse bees that have to care for the larvae and feed the larvae with honey and secretions from the glands which are referred to as bee bread. There are five stages to the development of a larva, and the larva sheds the outer skin after each of these stages. On the sixth day of this procedure the larva is cocooned by one of the worker bees in...

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