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

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Where Do HoneyBees Come From?

There are five general ways to begin a colony of bees.

Start with a swarm.

Start with a nuc colony.

Start with an established hive.

Start with a hive from a structural removal.

Start with a package of bees.

 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.

Hive Products Honey Propolis Wax Pollen Bees

Beekeeping Math Caste Hatch Cap Emerge Queen 3½ days 8 days days +-1 Laying 28 days +-5 Worker 3½ days 9 days days +-1 Foraging 42 days +-7 Drone 3½ days 10 days days +-1 Flying to DCA 38 days +- 5

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 Books and References

Olivarez Honey Bees, Inc Dayton Rd Chico, CA Strachan Apiaries 2522 Tierra Buena Rd. Yuba City, CA Strachan Apiaries CF Koehnen and Sons 3131 Highway 45 Glenn, California Ebert Honey Company S. 102nd Ave. E. Lynnville, Iowa VP Queen Bees— P.O. Box 99— Frederick, MD Bjorn Apiaries 696 Potts Hill Rd. Lewisberry, Pa BeeWeaver Apiaries 6301 Highland Hills Dr, Austin, Texas The R. Weaver Apiaries Inc C.R. 319 Navasota, TX 77868The R. Weaver Apiaries Inc. Rossman Apiaries Inc. GA Hwy 33 North PO Box 909 Moultrie, Georgia Rossman Apiaries Inc.

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