Merenga nut with honey

Mix the white flour with butter and honey, add the egg and 2 squirrels, chopped walnuts, grate the peel with one lemon and its juice, a spoonful of rum and a little soda. Dough well knead, roll out and cut a notch or a glass of round cakes. Bake until rosy. When the product cools, […]

Transportation of bees

The work begins with the development of a calendar plan for the use of bees for pollination of crops. Then they get acquainted with the basic methods of using bees on pollination of plants, taking direct part: 1) in the transportation of bee colonies to the corresponding crops according to plan), 2) in organizing the […]

How to feed bees

The beekeeper has to prepare a sugar syrup of two concentrations: thick (for top dressing with a shortage of honey) and liquid (for stimulating fertilizing). To prepare a thick syrup (for 1 liter of water 2 kg of sugar), the water should be heated. In cold water, this amount of sugar can not be dissolved. […]

Assembling the nests for the winter

In natural conditions in hollows and caves, bees build honeycombs and have fodder reserves so that in winter they are easily accessible to them. The frame hive makes it difficult for bees to migrate from one honeycomb to another in the winter with insufficient honey. Besides, the nest of bees during the season repeatedly and […]

Enemies and pests of bees

Moth, or wax moth. This is the most intrusive pest of honeycombs, and sometimes the brood of bees. There are several types of moths. On our apiaries are seen two of its kind: larger and smaller. Butterflies moths ash-gray, with a roof-shaped folded wings. A small moth and its larvae are quicker than large ones. […]

Honey pie

Dough: 600 g of flour, 150 g of honey, 150 g of sugar, 100 g of margarine, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup of strong black coffee, a teaspoon of soda, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and cloves. Filling: 500 g of plum jam or marmalade, 100 g of peeled walnuts, 100 g of raisins, 100 g of […]

Beef tweezers

Tweezers are an anatomical modification, the free ends of which make it easy to take the bee by the chest and attach it to the skin. The young bees, which are still devoid of poison, do not hold the tweezers. It’s not recommended to catch a bee with an anatomical tweezers, light pressure, the bee […]

Royal jelly in folk medicine

Royal jelly was tested and used for diseases of the cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal tract, with tuberculosis and brucellosis, arthritis, etc. It contains a lot of acetylcholine, a substance that dilates the blood vessels, so it works well for hypertension. Has a therapeutic effect of milk and hypotension. Thus, it is a kind of blood pressure […]

Useful volume of the pavilion hive

How many honeycombs are required for bees to develop normally? In the active period, they need honeycomb for carbohydrate feed and pergi, oviposition, brood rearing, processing of nectar, and for rest. Studies have established that the uterus lays eggs in full force, and bees feed from them the maximum amount of full brood only if […]

Wine-growing plant for precious rubbish

What is planned to receive from the felling areas are trees aged from one hundred to one hundred and twenty years with a size of “waist” of a third of a meter or more. Transported business wood – at least 400 million cubic meters – with whips, that is, without branches and branches. At the […]