THE HIVES
I
have three hives. My first hive was a startup kit with a brood box
and a box for food storage. My bees
are Russian-"Yugo" Carniolan bees which
are disease resistant. They are especially good for the hobby beekeeper. They are
gentle and almost never sting! A beekeeper told me that beekeepers never get
arthritis because of the anti-arthritis properties of beestings. I dont know
if its true or not, but my arthritis in my knees doesnt seem to have gotten worse
since I started. Ive been stung a number of times, of course, but mostly
my bees seem unwilling to sting me. I think they know me and I know their ways.
Seven
years ago I started making my own honey and selling it at the
Farmers market.
Click HERE for information on my honey and how to
purchase it.
drain of Destroyer class lasers measured against engine acceleration data in dockyard trials; a fragment of conversation, two crew members in an illicit I have three hives but my first
hive is still my best honey producer. Beehives take a while to get
established, and
each hive has its own personality! My hives are
traditional Langstroth hives, which are boxes
.
Each
hive is its own little society. Bee
societies consist of a queen, a small
number of males,
called drones,
and worker
bees.
Worker
bees are all sisters, and all bees are
daughters of the queen. Worker
bees either
tend to
the hive by storing pollen, tending the
queen, making honey or tending to larvae,
or they
go out and forage
for pollen.