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 has long been known that in the breeding of queens, the entry of fresh nectar and pollen into the hive […]
For normal life and reproduction, animals, including bees, should receive with food the following nutrients: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, mineral salts, vitamins and water. All these substances are complex, high-molecular, have a large energy reserve. In the body they decompose to simple compounds, eventually forming simple low-molecular substances that are removed from the body by the […]
Use perga, folded into a honeycomb. To obtain pergi, beekeepers use the old honeycombs culled (in autumn and spring). With the autumn culling of honeycombs, you can select all the frames (only from healthy families) that contain a lot of perga. To get a small amount of perga, the honeycomb is cut into strips so […]
The state of honey collection in nature is taken into account by daily weighing the hive with bees (control family) standing on the scales. For weighing, take a hive with a strong bee family, which is put on a decimal scale, installed under a canopy, protecting the hive from atmospheric precipitation. The beehive is weighed […]
On large apiaries, sucrose dough (kandi) is used successfully for feeding bees in the spring. Top dressing has a number of advantages in comparison with the feeding of sugar syrup. There is no time-consuming work to store, check feeders, transport them, put them in hives, for which it is necessary to remove the roof of […]
The main component of nectar is sucrose. It is a complex sugar that is not absorbed through the walls of the intestine into the blood either from the bee or from the person. But in the process of digestion, sucrose decomposes into two simple sugars: glucose (grape) and fructose (fruit). The decomposition of sucrose in […]