There are many different methods of fixing the wax on the frame. Unfortunately, many of them require significant technical facilities, and sometimes simply unreliable. In our village, amateur beekeepers, having 29-30 hives each, have long used the simplest wooden rule for this purpose. Using the heat generated by friction for easy movement of the flat […]
I am interested in the history of beekeeping, I purchased the book “Proceedings of the Free Economic Society for the Promotion of Agriculture and House-Building in Russia,” published in 1775. Attention was drawn to the chapters relating to beekeeping, in particular the calendar of works. Considering its content is not uninteresting for modern beekeepers. They […]
It is known that it is necessary to unpack honey combs not only during pumping honey, but also when replenishing feed stocks in the early spring and autumn. Printing with an apiary knife or fork is a relatively time-consuming process, besides attracting bees. This can cause theft. To bees can take honey from the cells, […]
A friend of mine once said: One day in June, when the day was already slipping towards evening, I began to inspect the family and found mature queen cells. It is clear that the swarm is about to come out, and as luck would have it, I was in a hurry: it was necessary to […]
To always have quality honeycombs at hand, I use the building capabilities of bees. Since the flowering gardens in each family I place first one frame with a honeycomb, and with the growth of the family – two or three. I put them through two frames between honeycombs with an open brood. I cut the […]
The method of combining bee families described in the literature consists in the gradual rapprochement (0.5 m per day) of hives. If these families are at different ends of the apiary, this will require a lot of work and time. I do this. I look at the families planned for the association. If necessary, I […]
The occupation of beekeeping brings pleasure to the owner of the apiary, but his neighbors are not always happy with it. The beekeeper himself must find the way out of the conflict situations that arise. He can ask them not to be around for the time being. Frequent aimless inspections of families (almost every time […]
The history of beekeeping began with the so-called “wild” beekeeping. This is an organized hunt for honey. Remains of “wild” beekeeping are found in India, Mountain Shoria, etc. The first mention of beekeeping is associated with ancient Egypt, where the hives were made from baked clay. Such hives can still be found in Iran, Afghanistan, […]
Tip 1 It is known how difficult it is to preserve pear-comb honeycombs. I do this. Honeycombs in which there are sites of spoiled perga, for two or three hours flooded with water, heated to 40-50 њ C. Then, with a sharp knife, I cut these areas to the mediastinum of the honeycomb. Such a […]
Just recently – just two years ago – I first got a beehive from the beehive … I remember how many difficulties there were in the first time. And at the deadlock I did not ask “what to do?”, But “how to do?”. In all the manuals, the authors disclose the technological side of beekeeping, […]