Monday, January 3, 2011

Raising Queen Bees Guidelines

By Calvin Wapasa


Raising queen bees is a very profitable project. Yet, it needs your full attention as you are raising very delicate creatures. There are a number of forms when buying bees depending on the money you are willing to spend, your experience, and how much time you are able to dedicate to your project.

If you're eager to get results at a faster rate, then you need to get a complete colony to start with. The complete colony contains one queen bee, thousands of worker bees, and some male bees for reproduction.

If you are curious to see your colony grow in front of your eyes, then you need to get a smaller colony which has a few worker bees. Time is needed for a young colony to expand. You will need to nourish them and provide them with the needed care to grow and regularly start producing honey.

Raising queen bees is more difficult than raising a colony. Queen bees need more attention and experience as you must separate any queen that appears from the colony to start forming a new colony.

It is not possible to keep two queens in the same colony, which means for every queen bee you need a different colony, and it will start laying new eggs that will hatch new worker bees. The new worker bees can become guard bees that will revolve around the hive to alarm the other bees when there is any thing endangering the colony. Worker bees also work as nurse bees that will nourish the eggs and take care of them until they hatch.

Worker bees have other categories, just like bees that produce wax and bees that produce honey. All of these workers are dominated by only one queen. Once another bee appears in one colony, then it should be removed or the bees will feel disoriented.




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