How do you start raising bees for honey?
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At least, I think it’s a carpenter bee? Apparently they burrow and live largely solitary lives (outside of raising their own young). This one was building a nest in an old log in my mother’s backyard!
Question by Greywolf: How do you start raising bees for honey?
What do I need and what do I need to know?
What do you think? Answer below!
4 Responses to How do you start raising bees for honey?
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Well, you have to start by buying or making a proper hive. See that it is set up in a place that will provide your bees with s good source of flowering plants. You have to get a queen bee and several other bees to get a hive started. The easiest way is to buy a packet of bees with a queen from a supplier. The cheapest way is to find a swarm of bees that have split off from their old hive and capture your bees and the queen. It is not as hard as it sounds if you can find someone with a little experience to help you.
There are several sites you can use for help.
http://www.ehow.com/how_1643_start-beehive.html
http://pages.prodigy.net/dscribner/bees/fbeespg3.html
http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/pubs/SFNews/archive/94032.htm
mckaytyler
May 14, 2011 at 2:08 am
Umm, do you realize they are all dissappearing?
The Saint
May 14, 2011 at 2:13 am
Read a book called: How to keep bees and sell honey. By Walter T Kelley. The book will tell you everything you need to know. The book is only a few dollars and can be bought from the W.T. Kelley co. in Clarkson, Kentucky. Have fun!
Carl
May 14, 2011 at 2:43 am
well u get lots of bees and u get the little homes that they live in and then u put them all in there!! 1 queen and take it from there!!
torry
May 14, 2011 at 3:05 am