The bees are hibernating in the wild. In order to improve the ventilation of the hive, in autumn I remove one of the last frame from the nest and in the corners at the back

In September, bee colonies are still preparing food, so now sugar syrup should be fed only for the night, after inspecting the bees in the morning or in the evening. Weak families (layers) should not

For the winter period, as is known, the bee family requires 8 to 15 kg of feed, depending on the climatic zone and wintering conditions. The amount of feed intake, brood heating, wax release, evaporation

For ten years I have been engaged in beekeeping, and the magazine began to read even earlier. Many tips and recommendations, drawn from the articles, immediately tried to use in their practice, but, not having

Many consider the climate of the Arkhangelsk region unfavorable for the wintering of bees at will. But a villager, an amateur beekeeper thinks differently. Over the past ten years he had to experience different wintering

During the wintering in the courtyard in the southern regions with a short and mild winter beehives with bees are left in their places without additional external warming. In areas with snowy winters, single-stem hives

Some beekeepers believe that the most serious shortcoming of multi-hull bees is the frequent deaths of bees during their wintering at will, as the deceased families have a typical pattern of feeding with a honeycomb

I equipped my apiary on a mobile platform. Its width is 245 cm, the hives have 22 frames on the narrow frame 300X430 mm. Letka two: the lower slotted and upper round, oriented to a

In the first months of wintering, beekeepers check the microclimate of the winter hunter with a psychometer for 1-2 months, use the control family for food consumption, which is installed on the scale, listen to