We bought 4 families of bees and one of our employee, Matthias, was looking to them .He has experience as a young man was working with an Italian beekeeper. After about a year I discovered these industrious insects and with a lot of experience in the field and some books i become a beekeeper. In 2 the work is easier.After 6 years we have 12 families with an output of about 200 liters of honey per year. The whole process of production is organic.
Latin American bees are Africanized bees, such as in 1964 a group of American researchers led African bees to Brazil to do experiments. The bees escaped and spread throughout the continent interbreeding with indigenous bees. Arrived in Nicaragua in 1984 and many beekeepers gave up to keep the Africanized bees because are more aggressive even if more productive. It is not easy to work with them because they give too many pinches even when protected and sometimes you want to burn them but they have queens that are very strong and make many eggs and are much more resistant to diseases such as varroa .
MELIPONINI (See all the photos)
Conversely, there are various types of bees of the family of Meliponini stingless that are harmless. Before the arrival of the colonists were commonly used by natives for the production of honey a little more acid than the common, but very good.In nature the nest ( photo ) are found in cavities of trees or palms, but you can "move" inside boxes similar to the beehouses .Il huge advantage is that you can place inside the houses because they are not dangerous and we do not need to buy wax sheets because they put the honey in containers manufactured by them with mud . We have found a Meliponini family very similar to flies and we're planning to place them in all houses including those of the guests.
