Being engaged in beekeeping, I heard and read a lot about the early-day exhibition of bee colonies. Itself did not have to do this. But it so happened that I had to take the family out of the winter hut well ahead of schedule. At the point there was still a thick layer of snow, […]
When cleaning the hive, brown spots are especially carefully scraped – traces of diarrhea during wintering. These spots can serve as a source of spores of a dangerous disease of adult bees – nosematosis. Carefully cleared of scum, dirt and stains of diarrhea, the hive and plaited boards are burned with the fire of the […]
The invention of a movable hinged frame facilitated the appearance of a large number of different designs of hives. In accordance with this, the size and shape of the frames changed. Used square, narrow, low and wide. Naturally, there was a need to find the best option for a promising beehive. So there were several […]
The most common way to get new families is usually to build offsets. In this case, the family is formed by selecting from the one or more families 3 … 4 frames with young bees and a sealed brood. The brood is given a uterus or a sealed mother fruit. If frames with bees are […]
Sometimes, as a result of unsuccessful wintering or for other reasons, some bee colonies are greatly weakened and occupy no more than 4 standard frames in the spring after the show, that is, they are very weak. Such families also need urgent correction. Many beekeepers correct such families, podsalivaya their printed brood and young bees, […]
Three weeks before the beginning of the main bribe from the linden trees in the Ussuri taiga, most of us had a part of the bee colonies in the swarm state. We did not want to form the layers immediately in front of the honey, and the released swarms can not always be removed from […]
In the magazine was published an article “Who kills the queens?” There the author, in particular, writes: “Usually the temporary peaceful coexistence of the old and young queens occurs with a quiet shift. The old one then disappears. Probably, not without the help of a young uterus, and maybe even bees themselves. No one has […]
Under natural conditions, the newly formed family of bees (swarm), settling in a suitable place for housing, for example, in the hollow of a tree, a cave, a cleft of a rock, etc., is immediately taken to be a nest of wax. The allocation of wax is associated with a certain age of bees and […]
For the formation of the layers and the withdrawal of the queens, I made five nucleus hives. Each of them is divided by three diaphragms into four compartments with three frames each. Here you can keep from ten layers on six frames and up to twenty – on three. In the diaphragms, drilled thirty holes […]
Along with the hives-lounges, two-hull beehives are now widely distributed. Methods and methods of keeping bees in such hives are usually called bicomponent contents. With a bicomponent content of bee colonies, significantly more bees grow than in 12-14-frame hives; improve the working conditions of bees and queens; the area of honeycombs for folding the forage […]