Where Do HoneyBees Come From?

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Where Do HoneyBees Come From?
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• There are five general ways to begin a
• colony of bees.

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Start with a swarm.
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Start with a nuc colony.
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Start with an established hive.
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Start with a hive from a structural removal.
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Start with a package of bees.
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• Start with a Swarm.
• Start with a Nuc hive.
• Start with an established hive.
• Start with a Colony from a structural removal.
• Start with a package of bees.

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Hive Products

• Honey
• Propolis
• Wax
• Pollen
• Bees

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Beekeeping Math Caste Hatch
Cap Emerge Queen 3½ days 8
days -1 16 days -1 Laying 28
days -5 Worker 3½ days 9 days
-1 20 days -1 Foraging 42
days -7 Drone 3½ days 10
days -1 24 days -1 Flying to DCA
38 days -5
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Books and References

• Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding (1997) by Harry
  LaidlawJr. and Robert Page Jr., Wicwas Press,
  Cheshire, Connecticut.
• Successful Queen Rearing by Dr. Marla Spivak and
  Gary Reuter
• Contemporary Queen Rearing (1979) by Harry
  Laidlaw Jr., Dadant and Sons, Hamilton, Illinois.
• Breeding Queens (1997) by Gilles Fert,
  O.P.I.D.A., Argentan, France.
• Rearing Queen Honey Bees by Roger Morse
• Fifty Years Among the Bees - by C.C. Miller
• BushBees Michael Bush http//www.bushfarms.com/b
  ees.htm

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• Olivarez Honey Bees, Inc.1750 Dayton RdChico,
  CA  95928
• Strachan Apiaries2522 Tierra Buena Rd. Yuba
  City, CA  95993-9654
• CF Koehnen and Sons
• 3131 Highway 45
• Glenn, California 95943
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• Ebert Honey Company
• 14808 S. 102nd Ave. E.
• Lynnville, Iowa 50153
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• VP Queen Bees P.O. Box 99
• Frederick, MD 21705
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• Bjorn Apiaries
• 696 Potts Hill Rd.
• Lewisberry, Pa. 1733
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• BeeWeaver Apiaries
• 6301 Highland Hills Dr,

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