Keeping Backyard Beehives – Backyard Beekeeping For Beginners

By Teo Spengler Keeping bees in the backyard is a natural extension of gardening to many outdoor enthusiasts. Having bee hives in your own garden means ready pollination for your flowers and plants and, in time, a generous personal honey supply. Read on to learn about backyard beekeeping basics. Backyard Beehives It doesn’t take much time or money to begin keeping backyard beehives. Oftentimes, you can purchase a new hive complete with bees for less than $200. You may be able to recoup that amount the following year if you harvest and sell your honey. You’ll need three kinds of bees for backyard beehives: The queen, who lays all the eggs in the hive Drones, who fertilize the queen’s eggs Worker bees, who perform all the remaining functions – including nectar gathering and care of the eggs. The bees work as a unit to care for the colony. In addition

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