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Frank, thank you for a highly interesting and professionally impressive website. I'm interested but have to see what the other half thinks.

Thanks for the kind words.
Course delivery will be in Khmer and English.
All being well, a bee hive can produce 20-50 kg of honey per year in a suitable environment with proper management.
A beehive costs around $300 for a 20 frame double Langstroth hive. the first hive can be split into 4 more hives over the course of six months if you feed the bees.

Honey collection season runs sept- march. the intervening period can be used to increase stocks by feeding sugar syrup and pollen. By producing your own new beehives during this period your cost per hive can drop to perhaps $150.
Pure honey finds a ready market at $19-20 kg which is in line with average world retail price. the market is in short supply and honey easily sold.

Khmers are rushing into this now the equipment is available. A few guys went over and trained with the Vietnamese bee keepers where the industry is very successful.

I had about 50 plus hives on the farm in NZ. Mostly Manuka [ teatree ] honey and I did not requeen the hives,, letting them revert to a native black and very nasty bee that would attack you even if you were within 100 m of the hives.. But in rainy weather these bees were out working , unlike the requeened Italian hives that were even so timid they could not fight off the big waikato wasps that invaded the hives.

I bought 3 books back to Cambodia encase someone in the family might get interested in having bee hives , and I'm hoping a 14 year old boy in the village might get interested one day.










News item from the PP Post a few years ago.

Just completed the 2nd introduction to beekeeping field day. It was fully booked, and we will be starting a beekeeping club here in Phnom Penh

I have had some good success queen rearing, you can read about it here:
http://biologiccambodia.com/bees/queen- ... -cambodia/

Second run of queen bees, i have gone from 23 hives to 31 this week if all my current mating hives take.
then there is this next lot of queen cells to find nucleus frames for

I made some 5 frame nucleus hives for mating queens and shipping nucs to customers


i do not know how but some of these cunt bees end up in bed with me about twice a week and sting about 3 AM.
so far only on the finger. but i may start wearing jammies to bed.

Oh my god this look so great!

If I'm ever out that way would it be possible to check out your erm bee farm? I do love bees, so interesting.

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 4:53 pm Second run of queen bees, i have gone from 23 hives to 31 this week if all my current mating hives take.
then there is this next lot of queen cells to find nucleus frames for

I made some 5 frame nucleus hives for mating queens and shipping nucs to customers


i do not know how but some of these cunt bees end up in bed with me about twice a week and sting about 3 AM.
so far only on the finger. but i may start wearing jammies to bed.

I hate seeing all those [ 99 ] Queen bees , so have given another Queen bee. [ karma point ] 100 looks so much better.

visitors welcome. you could bring me a bottle of Stoli

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 4:53 pm Second run of queen bees, i have gone from 23 hives to 31 this week if all my current mating hives take.
then there is this next lot of queen cells to find nucleus frames for

I made some 5 frame nucleus hives for mating queens and shipping nucs to customers


i do not know how but some of these cunt bees end up in bed with me about twice a week and sting about 3 AM.
so far only on the finger. but i may start wearing jammies to bed.

I like to think that for every bad mod decision you make, you get 10 bee stings.

Glad it all seems to be going well