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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
Collection of padi and honey dew
In addition to nectar, which is allocated by flowering and non-flowered nectaries, bees, under certain conditions, collect and carry in the hives a sweet liquid appearing on the leaves of certain plant species. Sometimes isolated
Preparation of artificial feed
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
Chemical composition of honey
Bees are adapted to highly specialized food. From nectar and pollen, they receive all the substances they need to reproduce, grow, develop and perform numerous works. Honey is a product of bee processing of plant
Hive feeders
Of all the variety of feeders proposed and described in the literature for bees, we will focus only on those that meet the requirements to the greatest extent. A wooden feeder placed above the frame
Special feeding of queen bees
In the spring-summer period, supplementary fertilizers are used to replace natural maintenance honey, or to cause increased activity of bees, or to give bees medicinal substances. Addition of bees during the withdrawal of queens. It
Beef feeding for the winter
When replenishing fodder reserves for the winter, and when replacing a portion of honey with sugar, time and quantity of sugar fed, the concentration of syrup and the addition of substances that improve the hibernation
Replenishment of fodder stocks and top-dressing of bees
Since in the early spring for bees the food and heat in the nest are the most important, then all families that have little or no honey should be given enough feed to have 6-7
Feeding base of beekeeping and measures to expand and improve it
For successful development and high productivity of beekeeping, as well as any branch of animal husbandry, a powerful and stable fodder base is necessary. The feeding base of beekeeping is honey plants of field crop
Preventing the crystallization of honey in honeycombs
The pumped honey crystallizes within 2-3 months. Separate honey (for example, with labial and legume plants) persists for a long time in the liquid state. Honey in honeycomb, sealed with wax lids, usually for a
Perga extraction from honeycombs
Perga and pollen of flowers have recently become more popular in apitherapy. Of these products, many drugs are manufactured that are used to treat many diseases. Flower pollen can be produced in two ways. The
Allocation of nectar flowers of honey plants
Nectar is a sweet liquid with an admixture of organic and mineral substances emitted by flowers and other glandular cells of plants. Allocate nectar to about a thousand species of plants, which are united under
Forcing sugar feeding
Bees can live for a long time, eating pure sugar syrup, but they can not grow brood, allocate wax, intensively collect nectar and perform many other works, because sugar is a purely carbohydrate food and
Digestion of pollen by bees
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
How to feed bees
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