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    Apiary
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    How to get bees for your top bar hive using a catcher box– part 2
    When you catch a swarm using a catcher box, this swarm has to be transferred to the main hive after 2 weeks. Before transferring, you need a smoker, rope incase the hive is too high, a bee brush, a hive tool, and protective equipment. Transferring is best done when the weather is cool and in […]
    Duration: 00:08:32
    Harvesting and processing honey from your honeybees
    Bees are kept for the their honey and to get the best out of the bees, you need to know how to efficiently extract honey from them. To harvest honey from the bees, first clear the bees out of the honey super. This can be achieved by using one way honey valves which allow bees […]
    Duration: 00:06:30
    Selecting an apiary site
    There are factors and considerations that need to be put in mind when selecting an apiary site for efficient economic production, health of colonies and ease of management. The major consideration when selecting an apiary site is access to reliable good quality nectar and pollen. This is because honey bees require a balanced diet of […]
    Duration: 00:10:12
    Colony inspection
    In apiculture colony inspection helps the farmer ascertain the status quo of the hive. To do a colony inspection, smoke the hive and disassemble it. During inspection, we look out for all the signs and conditions that a normal hive should have and we at the same time look out for the signs of diseases. […]
    Duration: 00:06:07
    Requeening a honey bee colony
    Requeening is important in improving the health and increasing the productivity of colonies. This is practised annually by commercial bee keepers to obtain the benefits from increased pheromone production and egg laying capabilities of young queens resulting in increased production. Recreational bee keepers are more likely to re queen every 2 years. When requeening, the […]
    Duration: 00:05:26
    How to Extract Honey from Honeycomb
    Being a highly nutritious food, honey quality and quantity is determined by the technology used in the processing. Honey is a whole and complete food for human beings and honey bees are the only bees that produce honey between spring and autumn and each bee produces one tea spoon of honey in its entire life […]
    Duration: 00:14:35
    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: 00:03:11
    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 […]
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