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Honeybee Cultivation Guide

Honeybee Cultivation Guide

A bee or a more friendly language in my village is Tawon, this type of bee can produce a lot of honey, but this bee depends on the season. There are several types of honey bees that are suitable for cultivation. Among them, bees from forest bees (Apis dorsata), local bees (Apis cerana), and superior bees (Apis mellifera). Superior bees, as the name implies, are the most favored by the market. This species is more productive than local bees, also more docile. The poison in its sting is very suitable for the treatment of various diseases. The bees that are cultivated by most breeders in the world, originally, came from mainland Europe.

Also read: Definition of Livestock Breeding

THE NATURAL WAY OF HONEY BEES

The capital needed in raising honey bees is basic knowledge in raising honey bees. The fixed capital investment required for honey bee cultivation during several harvesting periods is production equipment and a minimum of 40 honeybee colonies--ideally 100 honeybee colonies.

Selection of superior types of honey bee seeds

The characteristics of super quality honey bee seeds:
  1. Having a queen bee who, physically, is good and aged between 3 months to 1 year.
  2. The number and quality of eggs, which are produced by the queen bee, are numerous.
  3. More yields, both honey, bee pollen, royal jelly, and propolis.
  4. The resulting bee larvae are fresher.
  5. Bees are usually more aggressive.

Increase honey bee colonies

In raising honey bees in order to produce optimal profits, a honey bee breeder must have--at least--100 boxes of honeybee colonies.

The steps to increase the number of honey bee colonies are as follows.
  • Shepherd honey bees in locations where there is plenty of food available. With the availability of sufficient feed, the queen bee will produce more eggs and worker bees are also more active in making new nests.
  • Prepare the prospective honey bee queen to be placed in a new honey bee colony.
  • Separating the honeybee colony that is already solid into a new honeybee colony box, and placing the prospective new queen bee or another queen that is ready.

Making a future queen bee

  1. Take the newly hatched honey bee larvae; 1 day old.
  2. Put in one piece of royal jelly frame.
  3. The royal jelly frame filled with honey bee larvae is placed in a super box (a honey bee box containing honey bee colonies, at least 2 levels).
  4. Insulate/separate the honey bee super box, the queen bee is in the bottom box, and the royal jelly frame of the honey bee queen candidate is placed in the top box. Thus, the honey bee queen cannot approach the future honey bee queen.
  5. Leave it for 11 days until the queen bee becomes a cocoon.
  6. After eleven days, the prospective queen bee is transferred to a bee box containing a bee colony without a queen.
  7. After 13 days, the prospective queen bee comes out of the cocoon and is immediately appointed as queen bee by the bee colony
  8. Usually, after a week, the queen bee is ready to mate and develop a new bee colony there.

Honey bee farming equipment

  • The bee box, which houses the honey bee colony, is made of suren wood or mahogany
  • Smoker to tame aggressive honeybees
  • Honey bee protection mask
  • Comb lever
  • Honey bee comb
  • A comb made of a wooden frame and wired in the middle to hold the honeybee nest base
  • Pollen trap for harvesting bee pollen
  • Royal jelly frames to harvest royal jelly and make future queen bees
  • Extractor for harvesting honey.

Honey bee grazing

Between May and September is the time for beekeepers to graze their honey bees to plantations that provide ample honey bee feed. 

Honey beekeepers on the island of Java, in general, graze honey bees to rubber, kapok, rambutan, longan, mango, coffee and duwet plantations, so that honey is produced based on the specifications of the type of flower. 

Between May and September, this is when honey beekeepers enjoy the "sweetness" of income from honey bees, such as: honey from various types of flowers, bee pollen, and royal jelly.

After September, honey beekeepers experience a famine, because the honey season is over. To cover the cost of treating honey bees, generally, breeders graze their bees to corn plantations. Here, honey beekeepers can produce corn bee pollen and royal jelly.

Honey Bee Pest

Pests that often bother bees include:
  1. Birds, as animals that also eat insects, make bees as one of their food.
  2. Lizards & Frogs, the disturbance caused is the same as that of birds.
  3. Ants, build nests in stup & rob bees of food.
  4. Butterflies, butterfly eggs that hatch in the comb become caterpillars that can damage the comb.
  5. Rats, rob honey & damage combs.

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