Bees

[carlyai]

I need to buy some bees. Love them.

They are for sale on Shopee but checking if anyone has the Flow Hives.

Can buy these on Aliexpress.

Anyone into bees with advice?

 

[Pogust]

Well, if you are going keep bees you have some learning to do. I'm an ex commercial beekeeper and can probably give some advise.

Firstly what bees do you plan to have? The asian bee apis serana  or european bees apis mellifera? Big difference in how you treat them. Asian bees are more difficult but will survive better. Do you want to keep them for honey or pollination?

 

The flow hive is not a magic solution to beekeeping. It will gum up fairly quick due to propolis bees use seal all cracks in their hive. It probably works for a short time only.

 

If you use apis mellifera you will have to treat regularly with chemicals to keep them alive. The varroa mite will kill them off otherwise.

 

Can you post a link to the site where bees are for sale? I'm thinking myself of getting a couple of hives for pollination purpose. But use normal hives that I can manage without problems. Will build the hives myself from available wood.

 

Happy to help you get started, bit be prepared to read up on beekeeping....

[carlyai]

12 hours ago, Pogust said:

Well, if you are going keep bees you have some learning to do. I'm an ex commercial beekeeper and can probably give some advise.

Firstly what bees do you plan to have? The asian bee apis serana  or european bees apis mellifera? Big difference in how you treat them. Asian bees are more difficult but will survive better. Do you want to keep them for honey or pollination?

 

The flow hive is not a magic solution to beekeeping. It will gum up fairly quick due to propolis bees use seal all cracks in their hive. It probably works for a short time only.

 

If you use apis mellifera you will have to treat regularly with chemicals to keep them alive. The varroa mite will kill them off otherwise.

 

Can you post a link to the site where bees are for sale? I'm thinking myself of getting a couple of hives for pollination purpose. But use normal hives that I can manage without problems. Will build the hives myself from available wood.

 

Happy to help you get started, bit be prepared to read up on beekeeping....

Hello and thanks very much. Would appreciate your help.

I saw some people on the 'Tony in Thailand' Facebook page had bought some from the Shopee Web site.

I have attached the pictures.

Know nothing about bees  but love the little native bees that I came in contact with on a remote island of the top of Australia. Lovely little friendly stingless ones.

The ones from Shopee are stingless but don't know anything else.

I was just going to put them in the yard and hopefully one box in my aquaponic greenhouse when I get it back up and running.

The contact at Shopee is @syukrang  . I'll wait till I hear from you before I buy them. No rush.  Thanks again.

[Pogust]

Those are melipona stingless bees. You can't put them in a hive for european bees. They need small hives that you easily can make yourself.

Look here for info: https://www.landuum.com/en/the-lab/the-melipona-bees/

 

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Meliponiculture%3A-Stingless-Bee-Beekeeping-In-Chuttong-Chanbang/ed20a04e65532b5c61afd69e55f88facfffe699a

 

Could be a good way to get pollination here. Not so much honey from them though. You can divide them similar to other bees and get more colonies once you have one strong to start from, if you want honey from them. It also depends on local flora. They need flowers producing nectar, otherwise you have to feed them some sugar so they don't starve during dry season.

 

I will try a couple of colonies myself, thank you for pointing to the seller!

 

You can find hives here too

https://shopee.co.th/กล่องชันโรง-ขนาด-A4-กล่องผึ้งชันโรง-ชันโรง-ผึ้งจิ๋ว-ชันโรง-ผึ้งชันโรง-กล่อง-กล่องชันโรง-ผึ้งจิ๋ว-i.41337900.14496362178?sp_atk=f5ada149-e63e-49ca-8da7-a3b6d72d6f90&xptdk=f5ada149-e63e-49ca-8da7-a3b6d72d6f90

[PBob]

I keep seeing this guy at various shows. He keeps local bees and his has a variety of honey, mostly good but some are challenging.

Often at the monthly fair at the agriculture museum in Pathumthani but not always and not the full display.