Maintenance of Apiary Records

Maintenance of Apiary Records
    Observations: Keep the record of every colony and enter your observations whenever the colony is examined. These observations can be made in the given proforma.
    Periodical Colony Inspection Record:
    Colony Number:
    Date of Inspection Total number of frames Number of frames covered by bees (Bee strength) Brood area (sq.cm.)
    L x B
    		 Pollen area (sq.cm)
    L x B
    		 Honey / nectar stores (g)* Presence of queen and its working Remarks (date & amount of sugar feeding, drone rearing, honey extraction, temper etc.)








    *Estimation based on assumption that each fully sealed Langstroth type frame of honey contains 2kg and BIS Type A&B about 750g of honey

Last modified: Friday, 13 July 2012, 10:40 AM