If you dream to become the experienced beekeeper and to make apiary on the site, it is necessary to find first of all more information on life of bees. Make apiary and indulge the family natural bee honey all the year round.
It is required to you
- - beehives or materials for its production (boards, woodworking machine, saw, hydraulic glue and nails);
- - bees;
- - framework;
- - smoker;
- - chisels;
- - knife for opening of hundreds;
- - wax refinery;
- - centrifuge for pumping of honey.
Instruction
1. First of all it is necessary to define for itself the location of future apiary and how many beehives will stand on it. There are certain recommendations in this respect: put beehives in one or several rows between which distance has to make about three meters, between beehives — not less than two meters. It is desirable that lodges were located in shadow of trees, it will protect bees from summer heat and winter wind.
2. It is necessary to create apiary where for this purpose there are all conditions and large number of melliferous plants (they are usually planted independently). These flowers will give to bees pollen and nectar since the spring to the late fall. That to bees it was quieter, the apiary has to be located far away from the road, the great place — orchard.
3. In beekeeping use several types of beehives. Unambiguously it is quite difficult to give preference any. Here a lot of things depend on possibility of production of beehives and the bee-keeper's habits. As the most widespread are considered: twelve-frame, beehive plank bed, ten-frame and multicase. Beehives can both be bought, and to make independently, for this purpose it is necessary to buy necessary materials. Work is quite laborious, but interesting, demands knowledge of work with tree.
4. Create apiary in the early spring, beehives are made or got in advance and put according to recommendations. It is possible to buy bees in local beekeeping club or to order by mail (dispatch in special boxes). Within year of bee increase large families and are capable to give to the owner quality commodity honey.
5. Except bees and beehives you will need some more inexpensive devices which each bee-keeper has to have near at hand: special chisels, smoker (the device for suppression of bees) and knife for opening of hundreds. Over time it is necessary to buy the wax refinery for peretaplivaniye of wax or the centrifuge for pumping of honey.