{"id":36230,"date":"2023-03-25T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/?p=36230"},"modified":"2023-06-18T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T07:03:08","slug":"what-bees-want-beekeeping-as-nature-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/?p=36230","title":{"rendered":"WHAT BEES WANT, Beekeeping as Nature Intended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u2018\u2026What bees want is safe housing; clean, untainted food and water and soil; and to live their lives as nature had crafted them to do\u2026\u2019*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can only put out food in the very early spring, or you will attract every bee in the countryside to your hive, and they will do their best to get in and rob all the nectar out of the hive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee will let you know to keep away with several, gentle warnings. First by flying close with high-pitched buzz. If you don\u2019t back up immediately, another bee will bump you with her forehead, demanding that you back up. If you ignore the messages and are still there, out come the stingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bees have something like an internal GPS chip that orients them to home\u2026but if something happens to hive\u2014say, the colony is in a tree that falls\u2014the bees take notice the abrupt change and reorient themselves to the face of the hive\u2026there are always some bees don\u2019t take notice of the change, would go back to the original location, and won\u2019t be able to find the way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cutouts are brutal way to obtained bees. The queen might be hiding and not in cutouts. The cutout bees may need to craft and mate a new queen but that is not always possible. Without a queen, the colony dies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deformed Wing Virus(DWV). Bees contract it from the Varroa mite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swarm. Bees will find a new location to build a new colony which has less parasites and mite. The left-behind colony would bring on fresh genetics through their newly mated queen. Conventional beekeeping practices focused on production and would treat swarm as a waste of resources. They might cut the wings of queen bee so that all bees will remain in the old colony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening a hive in the cold season can be lethal for the bees because they don\u2019t have resources or energy to seal themselves back inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When there are too few bees to handle all the housekeeping and food gathering tasks, there is no bring them back. They must have a queen, and enough bees to cover and warm new brood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preservation natural beekeeping major guidelines: Hands-off, eye-on. Let them be. Bees know what they are doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bees do best in hives where the outside temperature does not affect the inside hive temperature in quick spikes of heat or cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bees in trees\u2026in this calm and quiet setting, the need for fuel is low. Small, too, is the number of bees needed to survive the winter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consensus on good natural beekeeping: Small hives; Swarming and letting queens mate naturally; Encouraging propolis production; Superior insulation of hives; No Varroa treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drone bees, the males of the hive. Drone bees mate with their own colony\u2019s virgin bees in swarm or carry colony genetics out into the world to mate with virgin bees in other colonies. Swarms increase genetic diversity and enhance the health of the colony as well as the resilience to disease infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maiden bees. Except for laying eggs, maiden bees do all the work of a hive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The queen of bees is everything to a colony. It is the scent of this one bee that gives a colony its identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A hive that lacks of the feeling of full accomplishment and exuberance won\u2019t swarm. Production beekeepers thwart swarming in a variety of ways: clip the queen\u2019s wings\uff1bsplit the colony into two or three hives\uff1bremove brood\uff1bstack empty boxes on top of the hive\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the queen is not able to lay the needed number of bees, maiden bees can create a new queen by feeding selected baby bee on a special substance created in the glands of their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honeybees are the only bees who maintain a hive all winter. How to keep themselves warm during the winter is very important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Criteria for good hives\uff1aheavily insulated\uff1bwarm, dry ceiling\uff1bsmall size, round interior\uff1blow entrance with a round tunnel to deter yellow jackets\uff1beco-floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tree cavities are good to home hives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To keep bees in our homes we should keep scented candles and perfumes out of the bees\u2019 room as bees are very sensitive to artificial odors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Place hives at least 3 feet off the ground to be away from the ground where ground molds, bacteria, winter-water soils and fungus thrive that bees will suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Face the hives\u2019 entrances east or south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most obvious aspect of bees language is the language of body: bees are always moving, touching, doing\u2026and the sound of the vibration\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bees generate a great deal of water in their nests from respiration, nest humidity, nectar evaporation, and hive cooling\u2026As the water moves over the propolis, it gathers potent antibiotic, anti-fungal properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardening for bees. Honey bees prefer a large patch of a single kind of flower to a yard stubbed with one each of every pollinator plant under sun. This is because honeybees gather one type of flower on each nectar or pollen flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bees have a fragile digestion system, and have evolved to subsist on one of the most easily absorbed foods in nature: flower nectar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollen is mixed with enzymes, a bit of nectar, and bee saliva and head-pressed into comb cells where it naturally ferments by a lactic acid process\u2026 More than 8,000 different microorganisms have been identified in this pollen ferment call \u2018bee bread,\u2019 making it a perfect probiotic and high-protein food for adult and baby bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avoid feeding bees. Feed only in absolutely need and feed on raw and unfiltered honey, not on sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent study examined beehives\u2026found 121 different insecticides in the bees, wax, pollen, and hives. Not a single one was free of chemical exposure. Sixty percent of the pollen and wax sample had at least one systemic insecticides. One of these systemics, neonicotinoids, is lethal to bees, moths, and beneficial insects,\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In production hives, queens are killed by the beekeeper and replaced with a brand-new queen annually or whenever the queen is deemed inferior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After five to seven production years, the colony notices their queen\u2019s fragrant scent becoming weaker\u2026nurse bees search for the right egg to make into their new queen\u2026once the young queen\u2026is decided fertile and her eggs are healthy\u2026the old queen\u2026the house bees feed her honey\u2026until she dies a nature dead\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I believe bees invite us to this: to return to the community of the world from where we originated. The bees reveal to me there was a time when all living things worked for the good of the whole, and this is something I choose to believe, and must believe. The bees teach me hope that we are, were, and will be again \u201cone\u201d\u2014the holy and eternal one form which all our better angels arise.\u2019*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pesticide and other chemicals are so widely abusively used, causing less sperm generated by Drone bees and queen bees might last barely only for one year. The sensitive bees are important indicators to the health of our bio system. Preservation natural beekeeping is not only a fashion environmentally friendly hobby but also an important effort to reinforce human\u2019s original link with the nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A (bees) colony will perish without a queen; the human would no longer be able to survive without bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*: Susan Knilans & Jacqueline Freeman, 2022, WHAT BEES WANT, Beekeeping as Nature Intended, The country Press <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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