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Introduction to Beekeeping

Introduction to Beekeeping. Session 9 – Plants & Hive Products Sat 5 th /Sun 6 th April 2013. Introductions. Glenys Lunt Experience. Pollination. £165 million – UK €10 billion – Europe $200 billion – World 10% Crops 25% plant species ‘Bread & Gruel’. Plants pollinated by bees.

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Introduction to Beekeeping

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  1. Introduction to Beekeeping Session 9 – Plants & Hive Products Sat 5th/Sun 6th April 2013

  2. Introductions • Glenys Lunt • Experience

  3. Pollination • £165 million – UK • €10 billion – Europe • $200 billion – World • 10% Crops • 25% plant species • ‘Bread & Gruel’

  4. Plants pollinated by bees • OSR +10% • Beans • Top fruit • Soft fruit • Salad crops – (for seed) • Sunflowers • Blackthorn • Hawthorn

  5. Bee Dances Waggle Dance – (Accurate) food further away Round Dance – (inaccurate) food nearby Ex: Encyclopaedia of Beekeeping by Morse & Hooper

  6. Bee Dances Sun Horizon • Site 1 Forage site 3 Forage site 2 80o • Site 2 Beehive • Site 3 Forage site 1

  7. Hard Work • Bee flight • 0.5 mg honey per Km • 25 gm to orbit earth • Bees carry nectar (& pollen) • approx. 40 mg • ~30,000 trips per pound of honey • Trip approx 30 mins • Phenomenal rate of collection

  8. Forage Chart

  9. Plants for Bees

  10. Products of the hive • Honey • Wax • Propolis • Pollen • Venom • Royal Jelly

  11. Selling Honey • Preparation • Sales • Regulations

  12. Honey bee ‘products’

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