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Everyone has benefitted from the bees as a result of this we should ensure that we keep them in existence
Apiculture or Beekeeping is the collection of honey from the forests has been in existence for a long time. Honey bees convert nectar of flowers into honey and store them in the combs of the hive and the growing market potential for honey and its products have resulted in beekeeping emerging as a viable enterprise. Honey and wax are the two economically important products of beekeeping.
Additionally, you do not need a large space or piece of land before you begin to keep bees.
There are various reasons why we need Bees in the environment:
-Bees provides a multitude of useful household items from hive by-products including shampoos, moisturizers, deodorants, tonics, wood polish.
-Bees serve as an excellent tool for educating about pollination, entomology, ecosystems.
- Bees provide similar pollination services to wild plants and flowers. Many of our trees, such as willow and poplar, benefit from the pollination services of honeybees, which help to preserve and spread our natural forests. The wealth of flowering plants that blanket the prairies owe much of their existence to the visits of the honeybees: in fact, many flowers evolved in conjunction with the bees. To remove the bees from the environment would mean the demise of many species of flowers and plants that we take for granted.
Honey made locally from your own bees. The benefits of honey are many, starting with the fact that it is an excellent natural sweetener full of nutrients including niacin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium and zinc. Also, it doesn’t spoil, and can be used for a variety of health benefits, such as soothing coughs, boosting memory, treating wounds, potentially preventing low white blood cell count caused by chemotherapy, relieving seasonal allergies, killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria, providing fuel for the body, and resolving scalp problems and dandruff.
· Many of the plants that our honeybees help to foster provide seeds, fruit, and nuts that feed numerous animal species. This is an indirect benefit of honeybees, but a crucial one. If bees were removed from the environment, not only would the plants suffer and expire, but so would many natural animal species that depend upon those plants for their own survival. Loss of honeybees would mean the collapse of the natural ecosystem, so the value of bees aside from the simple production of honey cannot be underestimated.
Wax: a popular product of bees after honey. You can utilize the wax made in your hive for candles, cosmetics, creams, lipstick, and lip balm.
Pollination: Bees can help make your plants healthy as they pollinate, as well as fruit trees in nearby orchards which helps the local economy.
Low maintenance: Bees work hard without much effort from you. Once your hive is up and running, it takes about 30 minutes a week for maintenance, and a bit more time for collecting honey up to twice a year.
Rewarding experience: Being part of a natural life process in which honeybees pollinate flowers and plants and create beneficial honey is deeply gratifying.
Bee conservation: There are many factors that are killing honeybees, and by keeping your own hives you can help conserve bees and protect their habitat.
Other reasons why you should keep Bees are that
The Honey bee does not compete for resources with any other agricultural enterprise.
Beekeeping has positive ecological consequences. Bees play an important role in the pollination of many flowering plants, thus increasing the yield of certain crops such as sunflower and various fruits.
Honey is a delicious and highly nutritious food. By the traditional method of honey hunting, many wild colonies of bees are destroyed. This can be prevented by raising bees in boxes and producing honey at home.
Beekeeping can be initiated by individuals or groups
The market potential for honey and wax is high.
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