Sri Lankan Beekeeping

in sri •  2 years ago 

One of the tricks to beekeeping in beekeeping is to place our tools such as pots and flower pots in a suitable place in the shade and bring the beehives to it. A Bee colony brought in by such a jar should be deposited in a brood hive a few months later to facilitate our control. Here's how to put one together for use with your beehive.

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Here we have to prepare the equipment and other materials that we think are needed for this. A standard type of beehive suitable for burying a colony in a pot is a hive, a smoker for controlling bees, a knife with a thin blade, scissors, banana peel or sackcloth (flax thread) for splitting the pot, and a needle for splitting the pot. A thorn or 2 ”concrete nail and hammer, a container of water and a clean cloth will be of primary use to us.

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First we need to light the coconut husk with a lump of charcoal and light it to light the smoke disposal (smoke) properly. Then some of the smoke coming out of the clouds should be directed to the mouth of the pot and the wires tied to the pot should be removed and stored in a convenient place near us while keeping the position of the pot as it is.

Insert a small amount of smoke back into the pot and check how the bee stings are tied and draw a line through the pot to observe how the pot should be broken so as not to damage the hive. (In this case, the pot should be broken so that the mouth of the pot avoids it.) Then the pot should be covered with a cloth to prevent the bees from coming out.

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Then, with the help of a spike or a "2" wire nail, gently tap it with a hammer to make a series of holes along the line and finally separate the pot. Our next task is to keep the hive tied to the two separate sections and to the upper hive frames in our hive. This should be done quickly and carefully. Smoke consumption should be minimized and care should be taken to minimize fly fly scattering by using it only when necessary.

Then the hives should be cut one by one and placed in frames and tied with banana straps or sackcloth. The edge attached to the hive should be attached to the top of the frame and the top edge of the hive should be cut so that it is straight with the help of a knife. If the hive is larger than the frame, most of the eggs and larvae should be removed from the top edge of the hive. The tortoise should be attached to the frame as shown in the pictures with the help of another person.

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The tortoise should be attached to the frame as shown in the pictures with the help of another person. Images can be used to tie the frame to the hive according to the size of the hive with the help of banana strings / flax threads (sack threads).

They should be tied to each other's hive frames and placed in the hive at the same time. Honeycomb or empty hives can be removed.

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Once all the torso frames have been placed in this way, the existing binge should be placed in the hive. This can be done with a spoon, something like a piece of cardboard or their own hands. If you care about the Queen of the States while doing this, you will not be difficult to find her. But the queen does not necessarily have to bother to find.

If the queen is seen, the handshake should not be done by an apprentice at once as she may be injured in some way. This time we applied a little honey or sugar solution to the queen's feathers when we saw her.

The point is, such resources will supply data and information on a regular basis. Now that we've put the Queen into a hive, we can say that most of our work is done. Once most of the beehives have been put into the hive, the gate plate must be fastened to prevent the queen from leaving.

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It will be important for the hive to be in a shady, easy-to-check location. If placed near the house, the gate of the highway should be oriented so that the night light does not fall on it.

Depending on the weather conditions in Sri Lanka, these directions will be suitable for protection from monsoon rains and winds and for more light during the day. Once the bee colony is placed in the box, the bee colony should be given a sugar solution prepared for food from that night onwards.

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