Is it advisable to use silica gel for collection of moisture in hives? The silica gel is used indoors, but it is inconvenient to do it in a hive. First, by packing it, bees worry. Secondly, to trace when it is filled with water and ceases to function, there is no possibility. However, it can […]
Beehive: a – side view, b – top view. 1 – housing; 2 – ceiling; 3 – roof; 4 – frames; 5 – leaflet; c – barred holes; 7 – exhaust openings; 8 – vertical duct. Ventilation of hives in winter is not an easy task. The bee club should not receive outside cold air, […]
We have made universal supports that enable us to transport beehives, to replace racks in the hibernate and to fully mechanize these processes. And here in a month in the brigade smithy 80 such supports were made, which greatly facilitated the movement of the apiary and breaking it into points from 12 to 48 hives. […]
The beekeeping season begins with the fact that on the day of calling the bees out of the winter hut, immediately after the flight, a cursory examination of the families is carried out. In order not to overcool the nest, use special mobile tents. Obviously, the frame of the tent is conveniently placed on a […]
Diagram of a collapsible beekeeper’s house: A is a general view; b – front wall: 1 – folding table; 2 – a window on the turntable; c and d – side walls: 1 – shield-bed; d – house layout (top view): 1 – honey extractor: 2 – hatch through which the canister is put; 3 […]
Fig. 1. Two-bladed wind power unit: 1 – windmill; 2 – reducer; 3 – generator; 4 – support; 5 – tail; 6 – post; 7 – extensions; 8 – the lever. Correctly made windy unit at good service works 5-7 years without special expenses. It generates electric energy sufficient to illuminate two or three small […]
Wax raw materials in the apiary are processed in two ways: without boiling – in wax and with boiling – on voskopresse. The greatest yield of quality wax is obtained when pressing raw materials. The magazine published a lot of descriptions of the original high-performance designs of waxes, allowing you to combine the processes of […]
Bear hives with bees within a point is often enough, especially during the wandering and when putting them into a winter hut. For this purpose I made a stretcher of my own design. They consist of four metal plates measuring 400X20XX5 mm. In each of them, two holes with a diameter of 5 mm were […]
To make a cork for a round tap of a multihull hive, you can do without a lathe, just cut the bushing-stamp. 25mm A narrow, sharpened end of the die bushing is applied to the workpiece and punches are punched from above with a kyanite. When stamping the next cork, the previous one comes out […]
The cell, used by beekeepers for uterine growth, is not without flaws. I designed my universal uterine cell. It is simple in structure and consists of a body, lid, feeder (fixed tightly), hook and flaps. The size does not differ from the standard. Due to the fact that the cell has a flap on the […]