The work is carried out in the first half of October, when you can not count on a natural flight of bees. At a temperature of 10-12 њ C, the windless and sunny pavilion warms up to 20-22 њ C. During this period, bees are given 200-250 ml of warm syrup, placing an inverted half-liter […]
One of the most difficult tasks facing a novice beekeeper – an amateur – is the timely replacement of queens and reproduction of families. Adopted on most amateur apiaries, a bee care system using swarming is unacceptable for those who work in the city and do not have the ability to permanently be with the […]
It is now generally accepted that the vertical arrangement of the hives is more in keeping with the natural habitat of the bees – the hollow. The desire of bees to develop a nest in a vertical direction is well traced in multi-hull beehives. If such a hive contains more than 10 frames in one […]
The work begins in mid-March. There is intense melting of snow. What should I do first? Open the external tapholes for 20-30 mm, remove the spoil from it, close the internal ventilation holes in the pallet bar. The end of March is the middle of April. If bees do not fly around, and about 10 […]
There are recommendations on the need for full pumping of honey from the nest. There was even the term “May drying of the nest”, which allegedly contributes to honey collecting activity of bees. If you follow this recommendation, then, having insufficient stock of old food, the beekeeper in May-early June (the period when bees must […]
A warmed pavilion for keeping 4-10 families of bees can have a minimum area (from 6 to 10 m2), but at the same time an auxiliary room is needed to store inventory and equipment (reserve parts of hives, honeycombs, etc.) with the same or larger area. You can not insulate the storage room. With up […]
The work is carried out, during the flowering of the willow. Do it in the evening, so as not to interfere with the bees. When the heat becomes and the upper body is filled with brood (2-3 extra honeycombs should be still free), it is necessary to warm the pavilion up to 20-25 њ C, […]
The work is carried out on June 5-8, during the flowering period of gardens and yellow acadia, in order to eliminate swarming and the simultaneous replacement of two-year-old queens in half of the families. In the next 3-4 weeks, the apiary can not be visited. The change in two-year-old queens is due to the fact […]
The work is done in late May – early June, when the gardens bloom and the yellow acacia. In the evening, in cool weather, it is necessary to warm up the pavilion to 20-25 њ C. Having a good development of families, it is necessary to make a second rearrangement of the buildings in the […]
In a number of foreign countries, where bees are close in nature to the Carpathian, the way to remove the uterus from brood (during the honey harvest) for the withdrawal of fetal uterus is one of the standard methods of transferring families into double-wool and is used to increase productivity and to multiply families. The […]