how to attract honey bees and trap them into making a beehive in a particular spot?
Question by Queen of Spades: how to attract honey bees and trap them into making a beehive in a particular spot?
how do you attract honey bees??? and posibly make a hive for them in a certain location?
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5 Responses to how to attract honey bees and trap them into making a beehive in a particular spot?
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It takes a queen to make a hive. You need to consult a bee keeper to get one.
robert k
March 10, 2012 at 8:26 am
InstructionsDifficulty: Easy
Step 1:
Be kind to weeds, or at least let them attract honey bees for awhile. Most people consider anything that wasn’t purposely planted by human hands to be a noxious weed. However, honey bees are blind to the fact. Their favorites? Clover and dandelion.
Step 2:
Introduce a variety of plants in your outdoor spaces. Honey bees love diversity. In fact, observations indicate that they seem to appreciate plantings of 10 or more different species close together.
Step 3:
Reward your honey bees with highly scented flowers. Bees have powerful “chemo receptors” in their antennae that seek out fragrances. Naturally, this will lead them to your environment if you provide the right incentives.
Step 4:
Become familiar with flowers and plants indigenous to your specific region. A local agricultural office or nursery can provide this information.
Step 5:
Invite honey bees to take an interest in your honeycomb boxes. How? With just a few drops of essential oil of anise. Bees can pick up this scent from half a mile or more distance. Use of this oil is especially helpful to attract honey bees when most flowers are spent.
Step 6:
Remember those sensitive chemo receptors. They also respond to artificial scents used to attract honey bees. These commercially available scents contain pheromones–agents that send chemical messages to bees to come and get it.
Step 7:
Forget about using commercial pesticides of any kind. It’s not good for the bees and it certainly won’t favor the production of quality honey.
Step 8: If you want to trap them then you would need to secure the area withsomething. Best to trap them near a tree or something similar. GOOD LUCK! (buzz,buzz)
HOUSE
March 10, 2012 at 9:21 am
The most common and easiest way is to buy all the necessary equipment for a hive. Then buy a colony of bees, usually mail order and install int the new hive. If you have a hive, a good clean one you know is disease free. You can look for a swarm, collect the Queen and as many workers as you can and put them in a hive.
I hope you know what you are doing though.
Larry O
March 10, 2012 at 10:21 am
You might want to start with something like the website:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Beekeeping/
Or this one:
http://www.ent.uga.edu/bees/Get_Started/How_to_Get_Started.htm
oil field trash
March 10, 2012 at 11:10 am
as a bee keeper I agree with the person /you need a queen and her workers you can try and find a hive /lay out trays of 1to 1 sugar and water put 1 drop of anise per cup to attract and then see where they fly from you may contact me if needed
suk_el_juma
March 10, 2012 at 11:40 am