Beekeeping Supplies Maine

This document is intended as a research and standard for honeybee administration in Maine, with certain focus on urban/suburban locations.

Introduction

Honeybees not merely produce honey additionally play an important role into the balance of nature, especially in pollination of farming crops, horticultural plants, and home gardens. Pollination is very important the viability of many agriculture enterprises, market home gardens, orchards, and seed sectors. Some crucial Maine meals crops, including oranges, raspberries, blueberries, and squashes, either depend on or benefit considerably from honeybee pollination. It's been predicted that work by honeybees contributes about $100 to $150 million yearly to your Maine economy. In 1975 the honeybee had been officially designated as Maine’s condition pest in recognition of the relevance to the Maine economic climate.

Beekeeping is becoming ever more popular in nonrural places. Maine presently has around 800 beekeepers, who manage 10, 000 hives. Beekeeping provides honey for residence consumption, pleasure in viewing these very personal creatures, additionally the chance to join an amateur bee- maintaining team. However, honeybees have a sting and for that reason require proper and responsible management so they cannot produce a problem for neighbors.

This document is intended as a guide and standard for honeybee administration in Maine, with particular emphasis on urban/suburban locations.

It might serve as

• a foundation for regional governments generate consistent codes
• A reference for information to reinforce community confidence into the security of beekeeping activities
• A standard guide should complaints or disputes about beekeeping tasks occur
• A compendium of most useful administration methods that all Maine beekeepers should follow.

It really is meant these Best administration Practices form a prescription for unified cooperation between beekeepers, neighbors, and other landowners. The rules for bee colony man- agement in these Best Management Practices additionally constitute a regular for beekeepers operating in Maine to adhere to, and may be acknowledged and made use of as a result by apiarists, decision-making author- ities, therefore the general public. Finally, regarding ordinances enacted by local authorities, the greatest administration techniques supply a consistent strategy for making clear and resolving issues. Beekeepers and local authorities who require more info should seek advice from the Maine State Beekeepers Association or the Maine Department of Agriculture. (See below for contact information.)

Requirement to join up

Renewal forms tend to be delivered yearly to previously registered beekeepers for go back to the Maine division of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry along with the proper annual charge specified when you look at the fee routine. Beekeepers just who change details are requested to inform the Department.

Swarms and Bee Enquiries

The menu of beekeepers whom gather swarms is updated yearly. Swarm queries through the general public are directed into Maine division of Agriculture, to County Extension Offices, or even to the Maine State Beekeepers Association. Other basic beekeeping questions might directed on Maine division of Agriculture and/or Maine State Beekeepers Association. (See web page 5 for several contact information.)

Definitions

Apiarist and beekeeper
A person keeping bees

Apiary
Someplace in which honeybee hives are kept

Apiculture and Beekeeping
The management of beehives

Honeycomb
Removable structures, containing wax cells which home honey, pollen, and/or brood (eggs, larvae, pupae)

Honey movement
The gathering of nectar from flora by honeybees

Honey extraction
Removing honey from combs

Beehive
Removable framed housing for a honey- bee colony

Bee sting
Damage suffered and inflicted by a worker honeybee

Brand
Identification for establishing frames and hives

Flight course
The distinct course taken by many people bees making from or going back to their particular hive

Foraging bees
Bees pursuing water or meals. Bees normally forage flowers for nectar and pollen. In irregular circumstances, when normal sourced elements of water and food tend to be scarce, bees may forage materials of pet feed, water, or necessary protein.

Hive
A honeybee hive, becoming a nucleus colony or a standard size colony

Bundle bees
Many adult bees, with or without a queen, within a ventilated ship- ping cage transported via USPS or other companies.

Pollination
The transfer of pollen by honeybees from anthers to stigmas of blossoms the pur- pose of plant fertilization

Robbing
Bees trying to accessibility honey stored or spilled in another hive.

Powerful hive
A populous honeybee colony

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