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Basically a hive is a few boxes called supers. They can be shallow, medium or deep. Each box/super can have from 7-10 frames depending on the type you decide to use when you take up beekeeping. Hives must have a few supers for brood and to raise more bees. The honey they put away is for them but we tend to take what "extra" there is knowing they need at least a full box/super for their winter. From a medium super which has 9-10 frames you can expect from 40-60 lbs of honey generally speaking about 3 gallons worth. Some hives if strong can give you 2, 3 or 4 supers full of honey but it depends on where you live, the strength of the colony, if it is an established or new hive and of course the weather.
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How do you get honey out of bee hives?
You put some honey in the new hive and the bees will go there
Why do bees leave their hives and have to start new ones?
because their hive is full of honey
Why have honey bees made a hive on your lawn?
Honey bees have made a hive in your lawn because there previous hive has reached maximum capacity. When this happens it is called swarming. The queen produces a female and allows her to take a portion of the drones or workers with her to form a new hive. If the hive I in the lawn it has used a preexisting hole supplied by some form of animal.
What do female bees do in the hive?
female bees make honey and do other things in the hive Answer: With the exception of a few male (drones) in the hive all bees in a hive are female. They do all the work. The only task the males have is to mate with the new queens if the hive swarms or if the present queen dies
Why do bees make bee hives?
Obviously bees don't make the hives - humans do that. The hives we see today were designed to make it easier to keep bees and harvest honey. Before the current type of hive, it was necessary for the beekeeper to destroy the nest each autumn in order to take the honey.
How does a beekeeper make the bees go inside the hive?
They normally start by locating a dark enclosed, dry space (in a tree trunk, roof or wall cavity - or indeed a man made hive). The colony of bees including the queen move into this and the worker bees use honey that they have stored in their tummies as they left their original hive to make wax (bees wax). they chew up this wax and shape it into a new comb with hexagonal cells. The queen lays new eggs in this and the new colony starts. With more bees, more time, and more comb is produced to store honey and brood young and the new hive becomes established. A resinous substance collected from the buds of certain trees (called Propolis) is used by the bees as a cement or sealant to plug up any gaps in the the walls of the hive so that predators can not get in and the hive entrance is guarded by young workers.
What do manuka honey bees have as their primary food?
Manuka honey bees produce Manuka honey which comes largely from new Zealand. These bees feed on the flowers of the Manuka plant in order to produce the honey.
What are the types of bees tha live in a hive?
In a honey bee hive there is one queen, who lays all the eggs; from none (in winter) up to about 300 (in summer) drones (males) whose only purpose in life is to mate with new queens; and between 20,000 and 60,000 workers (all sterile females) who do all the tasks in the hive and all of the foraging for honey and pollen.
In a normal hive what types of bees are there?
In a honey bee hive there is one queen, who lays all the eggs; from none (in winter) up to about 300 (in summer) drones (males) whose only purpose in life is to mate with new queens; and between 20,000 and 60,000 workers (all sterile females) who do all the tasks in the hive and all of the foraging for honey and pollen.
How long before a new bee hive has honey?
Bee's are constantly making honey from the nectar that they collect. The primary use of the honey is to provide them with food stores to over-winter. The "time" it takes to go from nectar to honey depends on the water content of the nectar. Once just the right amount of moisture has been evaporated the bees seal it up and store it away for future use.
Do honey bees carry their hives from one place to another?
Honey bees don't usually migrate. Nor do they hibernate, but they won't leave the hive if it is too cold or wet. They only time they will leave a hive as a group is as a swarm, where roughly half of the colony will leave to start a new hive elsewhere. The only time the whole colony will move is if their current hive becomes uninhabitable for some reason, in which case they will move anything from a few metres up to two or three kilometres.
Will bees live in an old hive?
Bumble bees rarely re-use an old nest, but honey bees will certainly use a hive that has been used before, although the beekeeper will have probably have replaced the old comb with new comb foundation for the bees to draw out new comb.
