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Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants. There are over 20,000 bee species worldwide. Honeybees live in colonies with a queen, drones, and worker bees. The queen lays eggs while workers gather nectar, pollen, and build the hive. Proper beekeeping involves regularly monitoring hives, providing food when needed, protecting from pests, and ensuring adequate space as colonies expand. Good practices also include placing hives in appropriate locations away from pollution and ensuring new introductions are quarantined.

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Principles Practices Bee

Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants. There are over 20,000 bee species worldwide. Honeybees live in colonies with a queen, drones, and worker bees. The queen lays eggs while workers gather nectar, pollen, and build the hive. Proper beekeeping involves regularly monitoring hives, providing food when needed, protecting from pests, and ensuring adequate space as colonies expand. Good practices also include placing hives in appropriate locations away from pollution and ensuring new introductions are quarantined.

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Principles and practices of honey bee

Among flower visiting insects, bees have developed a very close association with the flowering plant
kingdom. They have acquired specialized life styles & bodily adaptation to collect food for their survival.

There are about more than 20,000 species of bees in the world. They are grouped under the Super
family: Apoidea in the insect of the Order: Hymenoptera and Phylum: Arthropoda.

Honeybees provide honey and other hive products like royal jelly, bee venom, bee pollen and propolis,
which are of great economic value.

There are three different kinds of bees in every colony: a queen, the drones, and the workers.

The queen's job is to lay eggs, as many as several hundred in a day. These larvae develop into drones,
workers, or new queens, depending on how the workers treat them.

Drones are the only male bees in the hive, and their main function is to mate with a virgin queen outside
the hive. They die after mating. They have no sting, do not carry pollen, are unable to produce wax, and
when resources are scarce, they can be driven out of the hive to die.

The all-female worker bees, makeup about 98 per cent of the colony, and they do almost all the work.
They bring water, pollen, nectar, and propolis (bee glue) back to the hive, while some remain to guard
the hive, and some clean it, build the wax comb, nurse the young, and control the temperature of the
hive.

Worker bees eat honey to produce heat in cold weather and fan their wings to keep the hive cool in hot
weather. Their legs are equipped with pollen baskets, and they have glands that produce wax on their
abdomens.

All the principles needed for better honey beekeeping revolves around the following basic principles of
bee management:

i) Ensuring built-up of foraging force of bees at right time for collection of surplus nectar.

ii) Providing space for storage and ripening of nectar into honey by the bees.

iii) Removing honey from hive at right time and extracting it.

iv) Preparing the colonies to withstand any period of dearth and menace of bee enemies.

Generally, beekeeping activities start with the onset of spring in cold areas.

Honey production and its quality and quantity are fundamentally related to bee species specificity and
the vegetational pattern around bee colonies.

It is therefore imperative that knowledge of the bee ecosystem and its ramifications is an essential pre-
requisite for beekeeping.

- Bees need to be fed when there’s a dearth of nectar, or in preparation for winter.
- They need to be protected from pests and diseases.
- They need space to expand.
- They need to be distanced from other hives and need to be placed where there is protection
from extreme sunlight.
- They need to be monitored in case they’re thinking of swarming. If they are, action is needed.
- And all this needs to be regularly and repeatedly checked throughout the Spring and Summer.

They need to be properly managed. This management is the practice of successful beekeeping.

Good beekeeping practices involve

1. Inspection of the surroundings to place the apiaries in appropriate areas: non-humid, not exposed to
cold winds, not subject to pollution sources such as intensive agriculture and industrialization. This also
includes proper selection of suppliers, of bees and beekeeping equipment and verification of the health
status of swarms, colonies and queen bees.

2. Observation of quarantine measures for all new introductions that have to be made.

3. Regular verification of the health status of the colonies during the year through the inspection.

4. Controls on the productivity and resistance to illness.

5. Frequent renewal of honeycombs and regular replacement of queens (every one to two years),
selection of queens should be made with ones who show resistance to diseases, hygienic behavior,
docility, low tendency to swarm and high productivity.

6. Maintenance of colonies at similar strength, ensuring that hive capacity is sufficient to discourage
swarming; preventing acts of looting.

7. Adoption of appropriate techniques to ensure the welfare of colonies, especially those younger and
weaker (feeding colonies having no food stocks or in case of unfavorable weather conditions as in
autumn, winter and excessively cold or rainy spring; ensuring good wintering; providing adequate water
supplies particularly in hot periods, etc.)

8. Maintenance of the apiary and the beekeeping equipment in to make sure they are good and clean;
ensuring the required maintenance and, when necessary, renewing the materials.

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