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April 27th, 2016

4/27/2016

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On Sunday we went to check on the 4 new bee hives and to stick the yellow sticky trap onto the legs of the frame. To our surprise we already found two of the hives teaming with bees although it isn't the main swarming season. I reckon with so many old trees being cut down in Karen these days, many swarms are surviving in less than optimal conditions and as soon as their scouts had found our new hives they decided to move! Great for us. This brings the number of our beehives up to 7!
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Yellow sticky trap

 We use yellow sticky traps to keep ants out of the hives. The easiest to use is the sticky traps that is sold for greenhouse use. It comes in a 100m roll and is 15 cm wide. It is easy to wrap around the legs of the frame as it is a softer material than the usual sticky trap cards. It is also very useful in the garden to trap whitefly and fruitflies. Hier in Kenya it is available from Koppert as yellow rollertrap https://www.koppert.com/company/subsidiaries/kenya/
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A piece of yellow sticky trap is tightly wrapped around the legs of the frame. It is then covered with the empty water bottle to prevent bees from getting stuck on it.
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The finished set up with 2 Langstroth hives and 1 Warre hive. Notice the sticky yellow trap already fixed on the leg in the back. The bees moved into the hive in the front and the second hive from the back. The Warre hive will be attractive to larger swarms. We are hoping to get one soon and to see all 4 hives filled. After the cold season is over we will place "supers" a second storey on the Langtroth hives. It will be separated from the bottom box by a Queen excluder. This way the bees will start storing only honey in the upper box, while brood will be in the bottom box. This way the beekeeper can harvest the upper box without disturbing the brood in the box underneath.
​The Warre hive works in the opposite direction and doesn't use a bee excluder. It uses the principle that Queens only move a certain distance from the brood and that bees build from from the top down. In a Warre hive you always add a new box underneath and remove the one on the top.
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6/27/2018 05:15:17 am

I do really get amazed with how hard yet exciting it is to harvest honey that can be collected from bee hives. One of my dreams is to actually visit a farm that had this kind of harvesting because I want to try it myself. I know it is quite dangerous but I just can't help myself from the excitement that I am feeling just thinking that I will try it someday. But of course, I still understand that people will not allow me to do it most especially I am not really knowledgeable with the proper way of doing it so I will let them teach me first before doing it.

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    Anja Weber is the chairperson of Mama Chakula Foundation, a members' organisation dedicated to rural transformation through education & exchange; honouring old principals while embracing new technologies. She came to East Africa in 1997, when she set up the food processing units at Irente Farm. She has since worked as manager for different companies in East Africa. 

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