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

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

Every beekeeper worries about what is expected in the coming winter, a spring or a long spring is coming, rainy or dry summer, etc. I want to share my observations with readers, who help to

Usually beekeepers aspire to winter to provide bee colonies with the necessary amount of food. In late February, brood appears. If there are no pergas in the nests, then there is very little of it.

Every beekeeper knows the importance of accounting for the weight of hives. However, many beekeepers can not obtain suitable scales. I offer scales of own design. Stand 1, welded from pipes, welded racks, with which;

If in the beehive from the beehive in the presence of the beekeeper, he began to remove the swarm, that is, the opportunity to quickly catch it, without waiting for him to be planted on

In the spring, when looking at bee colonies, it is possible to find moldy and worn honeycomb frames. As a rule, they are rejected, but the apiary is not always provided with honeycombs. Therefore, I

It has long been known that if a bean for feeding bees is placed behind a plaque at the bottom of a beehive or under a roof on a frame, the bees will glue it

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

One day in early August, in the field on a tractor mill, the machine operators noticed the years of bees, called me, and I was surprised at this unusual choice of place for a home.

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