Archive for March, 2011

Source of Excellent Natural Fertilizer – Bee Dung

Yes – surprising as it may sound, bee dung is manure as much as the more common cattle dung. Ever noticed small yellow dots on your car’s windows and wondered? Presence of those yellow dots is a sign that bee population is active enough in the locality, helping us eat every day. Those yellow dots are bee dung. Let’s see how bee dung enters your food chain.

Pollen and nectar collected by honey bees is then processed in the hive into food. After digestion, like all creatures, bees too need to get rid of left over, indigestible indigestible matter consisting of all the pollen granules minus their nutritious inner sections. To ‘relieve themselves’, bees leave the hive and let out the pollen remains that look like yellow liquid, whether or not the bees have upset stomachs!

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Bee Supplies in the UK

Beekeeping activity requires several supplies. The most important are of course, the hive and hive components, protective clothing and a smolker.

Apart from these, you will need hive tools, frames, varrora control packages, honey handling and packaging equipment, bee food that serves as supplementary nutrition, and wax.

Here’s a list of a few of the well-known sources of bee supplies in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »