17 May

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nibxGfeNlQM)

Beekeeping is a fun hobby. You get to learn about the #bees, food cycle, #Pollen, #Honey, #beeswax and all things related to #beekeeping industry such as the different beehives, beekeepers tools and different methods for keeping bees, maintaining bees and managing various parasites and bee related illnesses. If you are successful though, you get to share in the spoils of the honey bee.  Once the beehive and the bee colony living within it grows to strong and healthy size, they will start to to produce more honey than they can consume. In late spring to early autumn usually. At these times, you get to harvest a few frames per hive and extract the liquid gold that has been gathered by the bees and capped over with a thin layer of perfectly white beeswax capping.

Once you rob a beehive of its fresh honey frames full of raw honeycomb, you need to extract the honey. There are many tools and methods you can choose to achieve this. If you are only a small backyard beekeeper, you will most likely not have at your disposal a honey extractor or a spinner, and nor would you need one either. You can use a simple crush and strain method which is simple to do and very cheap to make the equipment for. Although this is a more labor intensive method, and will also completely destroy the honeycomb foundation, you can easily extract 20-50 honey frames in this fashion and also recover enough beeswax a few raw beeswax candles as well. In our video, we give you a few tips on how to extract honey using the crush and strain method. We also take a close up look at the fresh raw honey we extracted and reveal some of the health benefits of honey, propolis, and beeswax. Enjoy the video, thumbs up and share. To support our channel, we invite you to subscribe. Every vote counts, and we would be happy to have you along for our beekeeping journey.
Thank you for visiting our beekeeping YouTube channel
MahakoBees

•Website                  http://www.mahakobees.com
•eSTORE:                 http://www.mahakobees.com/store.html
•Blog:                        http://mahakobees.com/blog
•Blog kids:                 http://beekeepingwithkids.blogspot.com.au/
•Youtube:                  https://www.youtube.com/user/mahakobees
•Google+:                 https://plus.google.com/+MahakoBees
•Facebook:               https://www.facebook.com/mahakobees/
•Pinterest:                http://www.pinterest.com/mahakobees/
•Twitter:                    https://twitter.com/mahakobees
•Flickr:                  https://www.flickr.com/photos/125372235@N04/
•Stumbleupon:          http://www.pinterest.com/mahakobees/
•Tumblr site:             http://mahakobees.tumblr.com/
•Tumblr blog:            https://www.tumblr.com/blog/mahakobees
•LiveJournal:             http://mahakobees.livejournal.com/
•Delicious                  https://delicious.com/mahakobees
•Diigo                          https://www.diigo.com/user/mahakobees
•Plurk                          https://www.plurk.com/MahakoBees

04 Mar

http://www.mahakobees.com
Beekeeper GLOVES REVIEW – Beekeeping 101 Bee equipment
Beekeeping supplies offer many options for hand protection against bee stings. Leather beekeepers gloves are one of the most popular, but often bee keepers choose to use rubber gloves, work gloves, or work leather gloves. These don’t offer a new beekeeper enough protection whilst they build up confidence looking after their beehives and bee colonies. Beekeeping supply stores usually have two or three options. We look at these in the video but also look at some other, much cheaper options that many use. We prefer to handle our bees without beekeeping gloves all together, but there are times that you simply need to put them on for protection. If the weather is unfavorable, or the bees are agitated in the beehive for other reasons, you are best advised to put the gloves to be on the safe side. Sadly, when wearing leather beekeeping gloves, the beekeeper immediately looses much of their finger control and many more bees usually die during the apiary visit and bee hive inspections, especially if you are inspecting and manipulating all the frames. All the bee keeper can do, is take extra care to minimize the unnecessary bee deaths.

Bee gloves vary in price greatly. The quality goats leather or softened cow hide beekeeping gloves, with long ventilated sleeves and an elastic band will cost about $25 dollars or more. The cheapest option in a proper beekeeping glove would be around the $15 dollar range, which uses synthetics. And then you have the other styles of gloves, such as worker gloves, gardening gloves, dish washing gloves, or just very simple food preparation rubber gloves that can and do provide limited protection, which can be as cheap as a dollar or two. These provide only minimal protection, but they at least keep your hands clean from honey, beeswax and propolis. Bees will usually sting right through these.

So, in closing, we recommend all new beekeepers to purchase the full sleeve length beekeepers gloves, and in our view, the best gloves are leather, ventilated, and softened. The extra $10 dollars is well worth the investment. The gloves will protect your hands against bee stings almost 100%, and they will last many years to come.

Enjoy your beekeeping.
MahakoBees

•eSTORE:                 http://www.mahakobees.com/store.html
•Website:                  http://www.mahakobees.com
•Blog:                        http://mahakobees.com/blog
•Blog kids:                 http://beekeepingwithkids.blogspot.com.au/
•Youtube:                  https://www.youtube.com/user/mahakobees
•Google+:                 https://plus.google.com/+MahakoBees
•Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/mahakobees.mahakobees
•Pinterest:                http://www.pinterest.com/mahakobees/
•Twitter:                    https://twitter.com/mahakobees
•Flickr:                     https://www.flickr.com/photos/125372235@N04/
•Stumbleupon:          http://www.pinterest.com/mahakobees/
•Reddit:                    http://www.reddit.com/user/MahakoBees/
•Tumblr site:             http://mahakobees.tumblr.com/
•Tumblr blog:            https://www.tumblr.com/blog/mahakobees