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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 5463" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>To make wax bees require nectar or sugar. It takes quite a bit of nectar to make the wax which means you will get less honey to extract if you continuously harvest combs for their wax but that is not necessarily a problem. What is a problem is that most areas are heavily overstocked with bees now and a lot of areas are grossly overstocked so that both honey and wax production is way down on what it was a few years ago. Wax production is quite seasonal and only really occurs when there is a honey flow on and that doesn't happen very often when there are too many hives. It's also becoming increasingly difficult to keep hives alive with varoa becoming resistant to the easier methods of treatment.</p><p>If you seriously want to be a beekeeper then I wish you well but don't think that a level III courses going to make you one and I strongly suggest you join a local bee club. If you are just doing this for pollination then I don't no anywhere in the North Island that doesn't have more than enough bees in the area and if you're doing it to save money on ingredients, both honey and wax are now being sold at below the cost of production.It takes a few years to get up to speed with beekeeping and with varoa even very experienced beekeepers are struggling to keep hives alive these days and it's only gonna get worse.</p><p>You can do it but don't think it's going to be easy and if you haven't got the time to do things on time then don't get started.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 5463, member: 207"] To make wax bees require nectar or sugar. It takes quite a bit of nectar to make the wax which means you will get less honey to extract if you continuously harvest combs for their wax but that is not necessarily a problem. What is a problem is that most areas are heavily overstocked with bees now and a lot of areas are grossly overstocked so that both honey and wax production is way down on what it was a few years ago. Wax production is quite seasonal and only really occurs when there is a honey flow on and that doesn't happen very often when there are too many hives. It's also becoming increasingly difficult to keep hives alive with varoa becoming resistant to the easier methods of treatment. If you seriously want to be a beekeeper then I wish you well but don't think that a level III courses going to make you one and I strongly suggest you join a local bee club. If you are just doing this for pollination then I don't no anywhere in the North Island that doesn't have more than enough bees in the area and if you're doing it to save money on ingredients, both honey and wax are now being sold at below the cost of production.It takes a few years to get up to speed with beekeeping and with varoa even very experienced beekeepers are struggling to keep hives alive these days and it's only gonna get worse. You can do it but don't think it's going to be easy and if you haven't got the time to do things on time then don't get started. [/QUOTE]
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