{"id":338,"date":"2015-03-28T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T09:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/?page_id=338"},"modified":"2015-05-03T14:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:41:06","slug":"the-simple-system-of-skepbeeking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/the-simple-system-of-skepbeeking\/","title":{"rendered":"The simple system of skepbeekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The colonies kept in\u00a0skeps are allowed to keep their natural sexual behaviour. By so called swarming the number of colonies increase during summer 3 or 4 times. Honey that is gathered is for their own development.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-502\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Swarmcatcher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-502 size-medium\" title=\"Once a year when the swarming saison start, you have to spread some melted old brood comb over or on the oak bark on the swarmcatcher. Then you need  to rub the swarmcatcher, every day before swarming starts with some grass, or citronal. One very hot days it is also practical to sob the swarmcatcher, so the swarm will find a cool place to rest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Swarmcatcher-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Swarm,swarmcatcher,\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Swarmcatcher-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Swarmcatcher.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swarmcatchers, made of a board 30 by 30 centimetres and with bark of oak nailed on it and prepared with a selfmade lure will fonction very well.\u00a0 The swarm can\u00a0easily be shaken in a skep.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Natural swarming does not only mean multiplication, but unfortunately also a splitting of the colonies, that makes them temporarely weaker. So the work of the apiarist or beekeeper during the few weeks after the swarming period till\u00a0heather is in full blooming, exist mainly in stimulating their development.<\/p>\n<p>Than they are brought in the moorlands or the sandy woodland which is dominated by the plant calluna vulgaris, ling or heather.<\/p>\n<p>After the blooming of the heather, that is in August till mid September, the number of colonies are brought back to the number of colonies that were in the beginning of the year. That means that 66 til 75% of the colonies might be harvested.\u00a0 Harvest means, taking out the living bees and unite them to some new colonies, sometimes they might be sold or be used to refortificate other colonies, Combs are taken out of the skeps and will be pressed for honey and later again to gain beeswax.<\/p>\n<p>The colonies that are not &#8220;harvested&#8221; are the new winter stock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special attemps are made to harvest a lot of the so called heathercombhoney,<\/strong> that is not just a simple combhoney, but is simple the finest honey on earth. In the United Kingdom and the USA, special artificial combs of beeswax\u00a0are sold for facilitate the production of combhoney. Here, in the Netherlands as well in Germany and Belgium, this comb is not on the market. We refuse to use them. The bees have to make the combs, that will be eaten with the honey, 100% ly by themselves and then also only during\u00a0nectarflow of the heather, so it is fresh and soft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The colonies kept in\u00a0skeps are allowed to keep their natural sexual behaviour. By so called swarming the number of colonies increase during summer 3 or 4 times. Honey that is gathered is for their own development. Natural swarming does not only mean multiplication, but unfortunately also a splitting of the colonies, that makes them temporarely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/the-simple-system-of-skepbeeking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Verder lezen <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The simple system of skepbeekeeping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}