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There are many great reasons for keeping honey bees. From harvesting honey, to collecting beeswax, and even crop pollination, bees serve many helpful purposes. Here are a few helpful tips for keeping honey bees on your property.

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1. Feed Your Bees: While the bees are getting used to their new hive, or during cold weather months, you will need to provide food.  You will need to mix sugar syrup and administer it to the bees through use of a Boardman feeder, or by placing the syrup inside the top cover near the opening in the inner cover.

This type of feeding allows your bees to have access to the syrup, without attracting pests or intruders. It is important to note that bees consume a great deal when they are first establishing a hive, so make sure to check the syrup level often. Once the bees begin to produce honey, you will no longer need to supply syrup, however you should leave some honey in the hive as a food source during the winter and early spring months.

2. Make Sure Water Is Handy: Bees need to have a proper water source, especially during warm weather months. Bees use water to cool down their hive during periods of hot and humid weather, and also use it as a dilution material during honey production. That being said, you should never place a container of water too close to the hive because bees can drown quite easily.

3. Be Considerate: When keeping honey bees, you should always be considerate of others. Remember, you want the bees, your neighbors do not necessarily feel the same way.

A wooden fence around your hive can prove quite beneficial. Make sure you set the fence up in the same direction as the hive opening so the bees can fly over the fence and above nearby homes.

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Harvesting honey is an exciting and fun process. This is the time when all of your hard work pays off, and you finally get to enjoy this sweet treat. However, before you begin, there are a few things you should know to make the process easier. Here are three simple tips for harvesting honey.

Prepare Your Area: As we all know, honey is extremely sticky. Every item you handle will become sticky (counter tops, tools, doorknobs, etc.) so you should contain the stickiness by working in a clean barn, on the porch, or in the garage rather than working in your kitchen. Keep a bucket of water handy to rinse your hands and a clean towel to dry off with. Set up all pieces of equipment and tools before handling the comb, and lay down a few drop cloths or newspapers on the floor.

Harvest In A Confined Area: Harvesting honey should be done in a closed room.  This keeps the honey clean, and it helps to keep the bees from stealing it, and bringing it back to the hive.

Warm The Honey: Warm honey flows much easier than cold honey. This will allow you to spin the honey out of the comb faster, which results in more honey being extracted from the comb. Warm honey also flows through strainers and filters much faster, without clumping up. Honey should be heated to about eighty degrees Fahrenheit (twenty-seven degrees Celsius) for optimal flow. Use caution to ensure you do not heat the honey too much or else you may melt the wax comb.

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Bee Keeping Equipment you have to have Whether you want to start bee keeping as a pastime or as a business, you have to have the correct bee keeping kit. Bee keeping is an entertaining pastime that will also offer you an additional source of revenue.

You can collect the honey for your own use or sell it. You can make candles from beeswax. naturally, you’ll need a hive for your bees to live in. The beehive is a wooden frame box that contains multiple parts. The outer cover must be weather resistant to protect your bees. Your hive should also have an inner cover to act as insulation.

The inside of your hive will have important pieces of honey bee equipment called honey supers. The bees use these removable frames for storing honey. When you are ready to harvest honey, you simply slip out the frames. The beehive will have a lower compartment that contains honey supers also but these are for the bees to use to raise their young and store honey to be used as food. A hive stand is necessary to keep the bottom of the hive dry and to provide insulation.

A valuable piece of bee keeping appliances are the smoker. A smoker is a tiny pot that you fill with grass or burlap and set it on fire to create smoke. The smoke billows out a directional nozzle that you aim towards the beehive. The smoke doesn’t hurt the bees ; it simply makes them calm so you can remove the honey supers without being stung. Most beekeepers add a veil and gloves to their list of obligatory bee keeping appliances. These defend your head, arms and hands from being stung.

Some experienced beekeepers wish to work without the heavy gloves since it is better to use the hive tool to pry open the hive without them. Full protection is endorsed for amateurs. The gloves should be made from leather or plastic so a bee stinger cannot penetrate them. Beekeeper suits are available also ; these offer protection to the entire body. You will need honey bee apparatus that processes the honey after you remove the honey supers from the hive.

You can buy extracting equipment which separates the honey from the brush. You may also select the easy and less costly methodology of buying honey supers designed for making brush honey. With these, all you have to do is cut the honeycomb from the frame. Other bee keeping appliances to consider includes food, feeders and medication. You should provide supplemental food to your hive to keep them healthy when nearby nectar isn’t available.

Providing a water source helps keep your bees away from your neighbor’s pool. Finding bee keeping equipment isn’t hard. You can contact your county extension agent for recommendation on setting up your bee colony as well as recommendation on where to purchase your supplies. You may also buy everything you need online if you can’t find it domestically. Using the correct bee keeping equipment will help your bees enjoy health and protect you from stings. Healthy bees means more exquisite honey that you can harvest from your hive. .