Beekeepers know that many bees die mostly from January to March. Therefore, from the middle of January, you should be especially careful. At this time, the beekeeper can judge the state of the family only by the noise of the bees inside the hives. In January, you can listen to families once a week, in […]
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 with propolis. There is nothing surprising. All the cracks, cracks inside the nest of the bee, are covered with propolis […]
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 predict the weather not for a day or two, but for several months ahead. These are folk signs. They have […]
Tip 1 When forming the nests, the work is greatly facilitated by the legend on the framework. It is very convenient to mark them with colored plastic buttons with the corresponding letter designations. So, I frame the brood frame with red buttons (P), with a wax – blue (B), honey – yellow (M), control ones […]
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 try to use them after appropriate processing. I do so. I slowly immerse the frame in the bath so that […]
In a family with bee-workers I substitute combs with an open brood. When the first bees begin to seal cells, I again give them an open brood. If the family was weak, then I return some of the frames with the sealed brood to those laborers who have been harvested, since a large number of […]