Your staple crops, gardens, herbs, ornamentals and wildflowers thrive on guaranteed pollination year-round.
Apiary Management, Pollination and the Environment
BeeCARE offers on-site apiary management, which differs from the typical pollination services provided by other beekeepers, who temporarily truck the hives onto the site just during the pollination period. On-site management means the honeybees live and work on your own site! This benefits you in the following ways:
| | Your staple crops, gardens, herbs, ornamentals and wildflowers thrive on guaranteed pollination year-round. |
| | You benefit the natural environment where you live. |
| | You may keep the honey and other products of the hive for your own use or sale. We can even extract and package it for you! |
| | For businesses with store-fronts, allowing customers to see active beehives on the site is an additional attraction, especially during hive maintenance. |
| | You have the opportunity for more direct involvement in learning about the apiary and the lives of your own amazing honeybees. |
An apiary is a bee farm, or a managed area of bee colonies. Each bee colony lives in a bee-hive and contains a single egg-laying queen. A mature, healthy colony contains from 40,000 to 60,000 busy honeybees (the females) and about 500 to 1000 lazy ones (the males, or "drones").
Apiary management is the involved process of managing multiple beehives for pollination and production of bee products. Proper management ensures the honeybees are healthy and very busy, which means they will forage on lots of flowers and crops, fulfilling their critical role in the environment by ensuring high pollination rates and plentiful fruit and seed production. Without honeybee pollination, many flowering plants and crops will not produce either the volume or quality of output that is needed by commercial growers, and some plants will not survive.
Apiary management involves all of the following basic processes, among others:
Assessment of pollination and colony density requirements
Periodic Apiary Inspections
Preparing to Visit the Apiary
Opening and Inspecting the Hive
Reasons for Opening the Hive
Package Honeybee & Queen Suppliers
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