Once a week the cages of bees need to be examined. Inspection carried out calmly, carefully, and deft. Examiner should use the full uniform (face masks, gloves, gowns, long boots) and pengasap tool. In addition to cleaning the cage of dirt and avoid the transmission of pests and diseases, the examination was also carried out to see the inventory of feed and egg. Fight wax moths are often seen in the number of bee colonies slightly.Nest box floor boards should be diligent to clean because dirty fast. It's a dirty place or be easily invaded ant nest wax moth larvae.Honeycomb should always be checked to see if there tidaknnya eggs will be worker bees. Nest that does not contain anything to be removed from the box Eraman. If in case there is Eraman eggs, bee colonies should be given nest contains eggs and larvae of bees that have good qualities.If the colony queen bee has made plots, it is a sign that the herd lebh not have the queen. Let it go. Wait until the queen bee out of the nest.If the queen bee has not yet fly out to mate, preferably honeycomb box decorated with leaves to keep the queen bee that will not get lost off the road while returning back from fly-mating. If the bees in the colony without the queen cage, care should be taken given a nest of another cage containing eggs.A more intensive inspection primarily conducted during a famine. Inspection activities, among others, to make improvements and the replacement frame equipped with nest nest foundation.
6. Supplementary Feeding
At the time of severe drought and heavy rains, difficult to feed bees. Insects that have fed atu stimulation in the form of liquid sugar syrup. Cooked mixed sugar water with a ratio of 1: 1 tau 2: 1.Feeding stimulation is mainly done on the new colony or colonies that are experiencing long drought or heavy rain season. Given the amount of syrup contains sugar as much as 9 kg per colony per year.Pollen artificial awarded once every ten days, which made Dair one piece of bread yeast or brewer's yeast, two parts soy flour, and syrup. Knead the ingredients until form a paste.