Beekeeping For Beginners – 6 Steps To

Start Honey Bees Apiary Or Apiculture

A Lecture ByMr Allah Dad Khan

Steps for Beginners01. Select a Suitable Place02. Collect Bee Hives03. Maintain Bee Hives04. Harvest/extract Honey05. Process Honey06. Enjoy the Taste of

honey/Package for Sale

01. Select a Suitable place

Remember, all the places aren’t suitable for honey beekeeping.  A dark area with trees/garden, without any passage of people or animal is the best place for bees.

Far from Electric overhead line and Grocery market is an ideal place for bees. Electric overhead line can kill worker bees while flying for searching flowers. 

Electric Overhead LinesWhile Queen bee flies for sexual intercourse it can be killed by electric overhead line which is very bad situation for the entire bee colony or beehives. So, you have to keep your eyes always on Queen bee and  take special care as it’s only one in entire hive.  Missing of queen be can disrupt Beekeeping seriously.

Safe Queen from BirdsWhile Queen bee

wants to be conceived, she run too-and-fro to meet with Male bee. During this period you have be more careful about queen bee to keep safe from some birds like this. 

Keep in Mind Small Birds Attack on beesSome small birds

always searching for bees to catch and eat.  Worker bees or female bees can be attacked  by such birds.  Keep in mind and Take care about this also.

Care About Hornet’s attack Take care about the

hornets’ attack to your female bees or worker bees.  My 4 hives became completely damaged by the attack of hornets.  So, I don’t like you to get damage like me.  Check if there is any hornets’ nest near to your Beehives.  Hornets are stronger and larger than honey bees and make nest like bees.  These are the enemies of honey bees for ever.

Worker bees gather both pollen and nectar from flowers to feed  to the larvae and other members of

the colony. Nectar is the sweet fluid produced by flowers to attract bees and other insects, birds and mammals. Worker bees drink the nectar and store it in a pouch-like structure called the crop. They fly back to the hive and regurgitate the nectar to other "house bees." The house bees mix the nectar with enzymes and deposit it into a cell where it remains exposed to air for a time to allow some of the water to evaporate. The bees help the process along by fanning the open cells with their wings. The cell containing the resulting honey is later capped with beeswax and kept for future use.

Bees do feed off of sweets Bees do feed off of sweets,

which obviously includes all fruits.  "all manner of fruit ( الثمرات كل also "(منmeans all sweet-tasting things, for bees pursue all natural-sugar-tasting things, which exist heavily in fruits.  Watch this bee eat from the fruit in slow motion, along with other bees eating other fruits.  This video also covers the healing and medical benefits of honey, a "healing for men" ( للناس شفاء :(فيه

Worker Bees The worker bees carry the

entire load of the colony. Although they are females like the queen, their ovaries have no maturity. This renders them sterile. They have several duties: cleaning the hive, maintaining the larvae and the young, feeding the queen bee and the males, producing honey, constructing the honeycomb and repairing it, ventilating the hive and safeguarding it, gathering supplies like nectar, pollen, water and resin, and storing these in the hive.

02. Collect beehives

Now if you like to start beekeeping for free, you can catch natural bees from any existing beehive available (if any) in your garden or trees. But for this steps you should have enough knowledge on how to catch natural bees. And you should know what species of bees are in the hive. Remember, all bees are not suitable to keep and not profitable also. So, be ensure before catch the bees. For beginner beekeepers it’s not recommended to collect bees from natural hives. It’s only for experienced beekeepers.

Colleting beehivesBeginners beekeepers

are suggested to Collect bee hives with teen aged queen and sufficient female bees, nectar and pollen storage from a reliable source.  Well reputed beekeepers or any Govt. organization on Beekeeping can help you to get productive and useful beehives.

When Queen Becomes OldWhile a queen

become old, it’s laying capacity of number of eggs decreased, but mortality remains in the same ratio. So, ultimately number of bees will decreased gradually in the beehive

How to Collect beehives 01. Collect at least 2

Hives so that one can back up another and used to interchange between them while necessary during maintenance.

  02. Buy a set of basic

tools or buy each of them separately.  Advanced tools you can buy later on.  Basic tools include Smoker, Brush, Hand Gloves, & Scraper.

How to Collect beehives 03. Transport bee hives in

cold weather and preferable at night to keep death rate at minimum.  Remember, during transportation if a huge number of bees die you’ll be unable to recover it and finally may be the colony collapse.

04. Collect strong Bee Hives that include a teen aged Queen, sufficient Female/worker bees, Pupa, Larva, nectar & Pollen Stock in the hive.

03. Maintain Beehives

You may think what’s bee management or is it really necessary?  Once I was General Manager of a Group of Companies as well as owner of Beehives.  So I can assure you that beehives management is far more difficult than human management, specially if you are a new in this field.

Maintain Beehives 01. If you have spare time in hand,

try to get at least few days training from any Beekeeping Training Center or Beekeepers project. This will help you enough to maintain your bees profitably.

Training on BeekeepingBut if you don’t have enough time to attend physically, there are several online trainingavailable, choose any one and start learning. Search using the phrase Beekeeping Trainingonline. You’ll find many websites are providing online training.

02. Keep notes of important things suggested from Training center to apply in your project. Also I suggest you to read more, Click here to learn details on How the Bee Hives Management in different seasons.

04. Harvest Honey/Extract Honey

You’ll feed honey bees all the year round but harvest honey only few (3/4) months.  But still now its profitable if you follow my instructions and be patient

Honey Extraction This is the most productive and

profitable species.  From each beehive you can get 50 Kg honey per year where from indigenous honey bees you’ll get only 5 Kg.  Apis Mellifera is European honey bee.  It’s scientific name is Apis mellifera Linnaeus, and subspecies is Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae.  For economic benefits related to pollination and honey production, this species become popular and spread extensively in America.

Honey can be extracted either manually or Automatic Machine.  For large amount of extraction,  Automatic machine is recommended.  Only for few hives it’s not feasible and manual is recommended.

05. Process Honey

Taste, quality and flavor of honey depends on the type of flowers.  There is one kind of honey called Padha Madhu which is very expensive and rarely available.  Usual honey price is $4-$10 per Kg but Padha Madhu if you found somewhere, they’ll ask $50 per Kg.  Some honey are specially produced to use for treatment of specific diseases.

Honey processing MachineHoney

processing Machine is the most expensive in Honey bees project.  You can start a project of 10 beehives with only 1000 dollar but one Automated Processing machine cost is Min. $20,000.

06. Packaging and Sale

If you start Honey beekeeping as a hobby or in a small scale, packaging may not very important.  But while do it as big project, nice packaging and marketing aspects are necessary.  Glass or ceramic bottle is the best for long lasting packaging.  Plastic container may be used only for short time.  If you keep honey in plastic container long time, you’ll get bad smell from honey.

Packaging HoneyFor packaging, you

have to comply with local and central Government Laws and policies.  Such as – your product should be tested and approved by Govt. Authority or Testing Institutions.

Packaging ContentsAlso regarding the

Monogram used in the label of packaging, quantity & date of production, date of expiry, batch #, MRP with VAT etc. are required & must be registered and approved. Without prior approval from Govt. authority you can’t use any label in product for sale.