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    Apiculture & Insects
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    Swarm control
    Swarm prevention is intended to stopping the bees from even preparing to swarm. Swarming happens when the hive is rilly crowded, there is a lot of congestion in the hive and there is not enough queen pheromone going around the hive. The bees respond by raising new queens and they will swarm prior to hatching […]
    Duration: 00:06:40
    How to catch and install a swarm
    In apiculture, colonizing a hive is one of the vital things to do and one of the sources of bees is through catching a swarm. Before undertaking the task of catching a swarm, ensure that you have all the essential equipments needed which include a catch box/ card board box, light coloured bed sheet, bee […]
    Duration: 00:10:16
    How to inspect bee hives and harvesting honey
    Bee keeping helps to increase farm income therefore for increased honey production farmers must ensure hive inspection as well as proper honey harvesting to attain quality produce. There are signs that help farmers to identify bee colonies that are ready for harvesting, among these include, shedding off flowers and leaves from plants, fruit ripening, maturity […]
    Duration: 00:05:32
    Honey harvesting and processing
    Bees have a lot of benefits to man among which is producing honey and this can be processed locally. Before setting off to go harvesting honey, the bee keeper must be prepared with equipments which include; Bee suit, hat and veil, gloves, gum boots, clean bucket with lid, smoker, knife and match box. For a […]
    Duration: 00:05:32
    Production videos from Wadep: Honey
    Bee keeping is one of the lucrative business opportunities among farmers as honey is a source of both several health benefits as well as source of income. However before honey harvesting the farmer should prepare and arrange the basic needed equipments such as bee suit, hat and veil, hand gloves, gumboots, bucket with lid, smoker, […]
    Duration: 00:03:40
    Setting up BSF facility at home BSF cage part 1
    Black soldier flies rearing is a lucrative business opportunity for income generation to farmers as it requires less capital and space. The BSF cage is the cage were adult flies are kept for 4-7 days in which they mate and lay eggs. After natural process of breeding the females lay eggs near food sources. The […]
    Duration: 00:03:11
    Setting up BSF facility at home part 2
    Rearing black soldier flies (BSF) is a lucrative business opportunity to farmers and this requires less technology, capital and labour thus making is easy to be adopted by farmers. However, when setting up boxes the diameter of feeding box should always be smaller than that of the collection box so that migrating pupa fall freely. […]
    Duration: 00:06:37
    Selecting an apiary site
    Bee keeping is a profitable business and honey provides many health benefits but its is important to have knowledge of site selection and apiary management practices before establishing an apiary. However do not locate apiary sites in areas subjected to insect sprays, sugar mills and factories feed lots and mills as bees will rob from […]
    Duration: 00:08:30
    The wasp that protects our crops
    Quinoa is a high demanded product, but caterpillars make the planting more difficult. Wasps can help to destroy caterpillars and therefore help to have a successful harvest. Many farmers in Bolivia have started to grow big fields of quinoa for the first time, because quinoa is a popular and demanded product. But since the vegetation […]
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