What Beekeeping Beginners Should Do

Step 1: Understand the habits of bees

Bees are social insects with many unique habits. Only by understanding the habits of bees can we maintain good bees. In fact, all management of bee colonies is carried out around habits. The colony is naturally divided into bees, and if you understand the sociality of bees, you can be handy when you are in the queen bee or in a group. Therefore, beginners must have a certain understanding of the habits of bees before keeping bees. Only in this way can they be handy in future bee colony management. 

Step Two: Choose the Right Bee Species

The choice of bee species determines the success of beekeeping to a large extent. At present, the most common types of bee breeding are Italian bees (high production performance) and Chinese bees (strong survivability). The choice of bee breeding should be based on local natural resources. To decide, if there is a concentrated large honey source in the local area, Italian bees can be raised, but if the local area is mountainous and the honey sources are scattered, it is best to raise Chinese bees. Here, it is recommended for beginners to start with raising Chinese bees. After all, Chinese bees are harmful to the environment. Adaptability is stronger than Italian bees.

Step 3: Determine the location of the bee farm

The location of the apiary is an important factor for the success of beekeeping. Bees like a quiet environment with suitable temperature and humidity. Finally, the fewer enemies (wastes and ants) near the apiary, the better. See here and believe what you are right Suitable for beekeeping already has a basic understanding.

Step 4: Get the Basic Bee Colony

Bee colonies can be purchased from other bee farms, or you can collect wild bee colonies by yourself. There is not much discussion here about buying bee colonies. Here we will focus on collecting wild bee colonies. If you don’t know how to find wild bees, explain the first The first step of the work is not done well. In fact, the search and capture of wild bee colonies are carried out according to the habits of bees. If the habits of bees are thoroughly studied, the problem of bee colonies can be easily solved with only a few times of practice.

Step 5: Observe the dynamics of the bee colony

After the bee colony is brought back to the apiary, it is necessary to carry out the box operation in time. Simply put, the bee colony is transferred to the beehive. After the completion of the box, it needs to be fed with honey water or syrup in time, and at the same time, install an anti-escape (to prevent the queen bee from escaping). After the bee colony builds spleen and lays eggs in the beehive, the bee colony basically stabilizes. After that, pay attention to observe the dynamics of the bee colony, such as whether the worker bees are on duty normally, whether the queen bee is laying eggs normally, etc. If Abnormalities should be dealt with in time.

Step 6: Do a good job of pest and disease prevention

Bees, like other animals, will be harmed by diseases and insect pests. Diseases mainly include bee cystic larvae, paralysis, larval rot, etc. Parasites mainly include brood insects and bee mites. Etc. How to help bees prevent pests and diseases is the most important job of beekeeping. In fact, many people fail to keep bees because of inadequate prevention of pests and diseases. Especially for beginners, the outbreak of diseases in bee colonies is almost devastating.