Temiz Petek : Petek bir arı kolonisinin ruhu ve bedenidir. Koloninin asıl evidir. Arılar herhangi bir kapalı oyuk, kovuk, kovan dışında, açıkta bir dalda da koloni kurabilirler; ama petek örmeden, petek olmadan arı kolonisi olmaz. Petek, süper-organizma olarak bir arı kolonisinin iskeleti, rahmi, sinir sistemi, duyu organı, belleği, bağışıklık sistemi, enerji ve besin deposu, kısaca […]
Çam balı üretiminin önemli bir bölümü Muğlalı arıcılar tarafından yapılmakla beraber ülkenin diğer bölgelerden gelen göçer arıcılar tarafından da önemli miktarda çam balı üretilmektedir. Bu özelliği nedeniyle Muğla ili bir yandan kendi yöresel üreticileri için ana üretim kaynağı sunduğu gibi, diğer bölge üreticileri için de ikincil üretim alanı olarak bal üretimin sigortası durumundadır. Ülkemizde arıcılık; […]
It is a privilege to watch a master beekeeper tending his hives. He comes to the apiary with calm steps, first looking at the air, at the flying bees, then at the surrounding plants and trees, then going through all the hives one by one and carefully watching the bees entering and leaving the hive. He puts his ear close and listens to the shells, or if that doesn't work, he hits the side of a few of them and listens again to the changing sound. Finally he chooses a [...]
Beekeeping in Turkey is a traditional agricultural activity and today beekeeping is practiced in all provinces of our country. In Turkey, where four seasons are experienced at the same time, there are many bee races and ecotypes that easily adapt to different ecological conditions and very rich floral resources that provide nectar and pollen throughout the year. The fact that each region of Turkey has its own unique environmental and climatic conditions, each [...]
Actually, should we say the state of the beekeeper? Among beekeepers, 'basra', 'beetle', scientifically known as 'pine cottony pest', in Latin 'Marchalina hellenica', is an insect that lives mainly on red pine, and to a lesser extent on Aleppo and pistachio pine, and feeds and reproduces by sucking the sap of the tree. Just because it ends in honey, don't think that the tree sucks the sap for its sweet needs; it sucks it for its protein needs. Since there is little protein in the sap [...]
Spring is the time when we use first the fluffed comb and then the basic comb the most. Probably the beekeeper's greatest joy during this season is when he opens the hive and sees the colony "asking" for comb. The more joyful the moment, the more frustrating it is when he reaches out to hand over the requested comb, only to find that his fluffed comb from last season has been ruined. The culprit is almost always the "honeycomb [...]
This month, I would like to take you to the recent history of Anatolia, this fertile land of bees and beekeeping, and introduce you to a valuable research historian, Nadir YURTOĞLU (Assist. Assoc. Prof. Dr., Kastamonu University, Department of Turkish and Social Sciences Education). I came across his work "Beekeeping Activities in Republican Turkey - (1923-1960)" while I was scanning the sources for our ongoing "Local and Historical Beekeeping Routes" study and [...]
A Natural Ecological Agriculture and Agro-Tourism Region -2 Industrial agricultural production for the market faces price fluctuations due to market conditions and unexpected crop losses due to climate change. To cope with such problems and increase their incomes, farmers find the only solution in the application of modern agricultural technologies using both chemicals and machinery. But [...]
A Natural Ecological Agriculture and Agro-Tourism Region -1 Are we beekeepers or honey producers? Does the question sound strange? What if I ask you like this; are you a beekeeper or a producer of beekeeping products? What do you think? The right question is; from how many of the approximately three million "local and foreign" hives that stay in Muğla every year do we harvest beekeeping products other than honey? Yes, beekeeping products, bee [...]
Farmlands now constitute one of the largest ecosystems. And agricultural production has been rapidly and increasingly industrialized over the last century. This process takes the form of more hybrid monoculture crops, more intensive use of artificial fertilizers, more toxic chemicals and increasing sprawl of agricultural areas into other areas. Industrialized agriculture is also using bees and other pollinators for a variety of [...].
