If we do not talk about technology, then beekeeping is divided into two types: stationary and nomadic.
Stationary beekeeper content only with those melliferous plants that grow near its apiary. It is also strongly attached to the flowering time of these honey plants.
It is difficult to find a place where the so-called honey conveyorwhen one strong honey plant blooms, and after a short time another blooms.
Honey in such an apiary is usually pumped once a year at the end of the season. This is polyfler honey, in which one pronounced honey plant is not present. People call it honey from herbs.
Of course, such a situation does not suit all beekeepers. And in order to get a variety of monofleur honey, in which one pronounced honey plant prevails, it is necessary to move or, as beekeepers say, roaming.
The beekeeper who does this on an industrial scale can also not roam. That is, the apiary is located in its own fields, where a honey conveyor is provided.
A nomadic beekeeper is a professional beekeeper who made beekeeping his profession!
Transporting bees is not easy. It is one thing to deliver 50 televisions from point A to point B, and it is quite another to transfer bee families.
Each hive can have from 50 to 80 thousand bees. And such a move does not give them any pleasure at all. They constantly strive to break out of the hive.
If the beekeeper did not prepare the hive well enough for moving, did not eliminate all the cracks and did not fasten them well, the bees will definitely take advantage of this.
They will begin to mass out in large numbers, which will cause the beekeeper big problems and a lot of unplanned work.
Transportation of bees, as a rule, is carried out at night. It is necessary to provide adequate ventilation, because during transportation, the bees come in a very agitated state, intensively consume food, thereby increasing the temperature inside the hive, and this can lead to the so-called steaming of the bee family and death. Personally, I have never had such cases, but I have heard from such beekeepers about such incidents.
Carrying bees is a responsible business that requires accuracy and skill.
It is also important to determine in advance the place of the future apiary. Read about how to prepare in this article.
