ENVS 2210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Laxative, Honey Flow, Queen Excluder
15 Sep 2018
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Care and maintenance of bee colonies for fun and profit. Intensive managers vs commercial beekeepers (less care per hive) Simply providing a convenient hive for them to live in. Discourage swarming (reproduction of social colony), encourage gather and store food. Manipulate according to normal seasonal cycle and biology. Increasing genetic selection for easier management, more honey, and disease resistance. Beekeepers should know what is coming up. Increase population in predictable, seasonal manner naturally. Beekeepers should support growth so that peak population matches start of nectar flow. Boost weak colony and prevent swarming by strong colonies. Colonies often respond to environmental cues in a certain way but each hive has a different personality. Beekeepers learn something new in every season. Adult bee population number reaches lowest point and then follows the nectar flow period and increases. Earlier humans hunt for wild colonies for honey and beeswax. Created by langstroth, father of modern beekeeping.
