The beekeeper has to prepare a sugar syrup of two concentrations: thick (for top dressing with a shortage of honey) and liquid (for stimulating fertilizing). To prepare a thick syrup (for 1 liter of water 2 kg of sugar), the water should be heated. In cold water, this amount of sugar can not be dissolved. […]
Every beekeeper knows that the sugar syrup has a neutral reaction, and when the bees carry it to the honeycomb, it already gets acidic. Therefore, for normal and healthy life of the insect organism, the food must be acidic. The beekeeper can make it easier for the family to process the syrup by adding 3-4 […]
When feeding bees to sugar syrup, they process it, fold it into honeycomb cells and seal with wax lids, while bees wear heavily. To avoid this and provide the bee family with food, they prepare an artificial feed, which in composition corresponds to the feed obtained after bees processing sugar syrup. When preparing artificial feed […]
High concentration of sugars of honey ensures its long-term preservation. But bees have a method that reliably protects this product from spoilage during long-term storage: bees give the honey a sharply acid reaction (active acidity), and in acidic environments can not develop fungal spores, putrefactive and other bacteria. Two days after feeding the bees to […]
To collect and bring nectar to the hive of bees, as well as in other insects (Hymenoptera), feeding on nectar, in the course of evolution have developed very sophisticated organs: proboscis licking-sucking type that bees collect even tiny droplets of nectar and honey zobik – tank collecting nectar and bringing it to the hive. Proboscis. […]
When organizing a beekeeping farm, it is necessary to be able to calculate how many bee colonies can be kept under given specific conditions or what honeybase should be created for the required number of bee colonies. In order to properly calculate, it is necessary to know the annual need of the bee family in […]
Bees feed on pollen unevenly throughout life. In the early days. after leaving the cell, the bee eats a lot, which causes the midgut to increase greatly: the intestine volume from 6.7 mm3 increases to 22.9 mm3. After switching to flight work, the bee pollen does not consume at all and the volume of its […]
To use sweet substances for feeding bees, it is necessary to know if bees are able to assimilate them, and if they are capable, then to what extent. There is a simple and sufficiently reliable method for assessing nutritional value for bees of carbohydrate feeds (sugars), soluble in water. For the experiment, bees are taken, […]
In Ukraine, on the floodplains of rivers and streams, there are large areas of meadows. They grow many honey plants that are important for beekeeping. Distinct meadows are flooded, dry and forest. The vegetation of meadows is very diverse. The most rich in honey plants are flood meadows. In the meadows, in addition to cereal […]
Natural food for bees and their brood are honey and pepper. The issues of harvesting, quality control and storage of honey reserves are developed in detail, which can not be said about perge. At the same time, because of its lack, substitutes are used. Flower pollen, selected from bees in the form of updates, is […]