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 kg of stocks in the hive and in no case less than 4 kg. Only with sufficient supplies of food […]
Receiving pollen from plants or pergs from honeycombs is a very laborious process. You can get the pollen already collected by bees, by selecting their updates from the tap when returning to the hive. Practical implementation of this selection of updates was possible only after careful observation of the behavior of the bees, which were […]
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 her small insects (aphids, leaf-blocks and chervets), parasites on plants, and sometimes themselves Plants without the participation of insects. In […]
Bees are small insects, and therefore it is not possible to determine from them the digestibility of feed by the method commonly used in animal husbandry. In addition, the bee honey taken can not be considered eaten, since the bee in honey crab can store it for a long time. Bees under normal conditions excrete […]
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 nectar. It is a very sweet, viscous aromatic liquid with a peculiar taste and smell, a variety of colors – […]
Feeding bees is a big and laborious work. Therefore, the apiaries should take measures to provide bee colonies with fodder, at least 18 kg of honey in the honeycomb, for each bee family for the winter-spring period. Such reserves are usually sufficient before the onset of favorable weather and the flowering of early honey-plants. In […]
Bee families in many cases feel a lack of protein feed – pollen. For example, in early spring, there often does not occur flowering plants in nature, or plants bloom at a time when unfavorable weather prevents the bees from flying out of the hives and the stocks of pengu in the nests quickly run […]
Of the woody honey plants, white acacia, maple, linden, gledicia, willow and fruit trees are of the greatest importance. Acacia white – a tree, reaching a height of more than 20 m, has a variety, characterized by the shape of the trunk, crown, leaves (mast, pyramidal, Besson, having a spherical shape of the crown). Acacia […]
Prepare winter-spring honey reserves should be in the form of full honey combs with sealed cells. Honey in the sealed cells is easier to store, since it is isolated from the surrounding air. In unsealed cells honey easily spoils. In a damp room, honey will absorb moisture, liquefy and can ferment. In an excessively dry […]
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 long time is in a liquid state. However, it can crystallize in the honeycomb. In the winter, this leads to […]