TYPE OF HONEYBEES

Oriental Honeybees are known for being excellent honey forager, while Western Honeybees are much efficient in productivity and maintenance.

ORIENTAL HONEYBEE
Apis Cerana, or Eastern honeybees, are great crop pollinator and combs builders. They exhibit mild, tolerant, timid, and low stinging tendency.

WESTERN HONEYBEE
Apis mellifera, are poikilothermic or coldblooded, are excellent foragers and resistant to European foulbrood disease, and exceptionally easy to work with.

Western Honeybee species found in Bhutan

• Carniolan Honeybee Apis mellifera carnica
• Italian Honeybee Apis meddifera ligustica

HARVEST PERIOD
First Harvest Season – July

80 percent White Clover Flowers + 20 percent Mustard, Bush Berry & Various Wild Flowers

Second Harvest – August

Native Wild Flowers – Chenduensing

Third Harvest – September

Buckwheat Flowers

Fourth Harvest – October

Native Wild Flowers – Singzam Flowers & Yesgurma Flowers