Assembling the nests for the winter

In natural conditions in hollows and caves, bees build honeycombs and have fodder reserves so that in winter they are easily accessible to them. The frame hive makes it difficult for bees to migrate from one honeycomb to another in the winter with insufficient honey. Besides, the nest of bees during the season repeatedly and […]

The contents of the bees in the reserve apiary

Reserve apiary is necessary to provide bees with saturated pollination of greenhouse crops. A significant role in this is the quality of the queens bred on the reserve apiary. The strength and productivity of the family depends on the uterus. Only strong families, even under unfavorable weather, manage to provide themselves with fodder and saturated, […]

Feed collected by bees

Honey. Honey bees are produced from nectar collected from the flowers of plants. Nectar is an aqueous solution of complex and simple sugars. The sugar content of nectar depends on the type of plants, night and daytime outdoor temperature, soil and air humidity, time of day and many other conditions. Bees prefer to collect nectar […]

Storage of forage stocks of bees

Prepared for bees, peregu, pollen or pollen, it is important to be able to save, so that this perishable product may have lost its fodder quality. To do this, it is necessary that the storage of fodder reserves be dry, ventilated and inaccessible to pest infestation. In the process of air exchange, fungal spores penetrate […]

Accommodation of hives in a greenhouse

As the long experience of using bees in greenhouses shows, it is very important to choose the right place for placing the hive. The best place to house a hive in a greenhouse of any design is the south-west corner. Before coming to this conclusion, the beekeepers-hothouses were tortured by many options. At first it […]

Paseychnye and subsidiary outbuildings

Usually pasechnye buildings (heated house, sotohranilische, zimovnik for bees, storage for fodder and stocks, warehouses) are erected on central manors, where, at the end of the season of work, bees in the greenhouses and in the wild carry all bee families and property. If the beekeeper lives at the department or near it, and the […]

Improving the food base for bees

The break in honey collects negatively affects the development of bee colonies and their general physiological state. The honey reserve of the area is distributed according to the flowering time of the honey plants: in spring, in summer, in autumn. To eliminate the impotent period, take into account the flowering period of the honeycombs and […]

Pollination by bees of cucumbers in the greenhouse

In winter, in the central regions of the country, because of the insufficient intensity of solar radiation and the short duration of the day, it is impossible to grow cucumbers in greenhouses. At this time, only artificial crops such as onion, beet, celery, parsley, parsnip and some others can be grown without artificial lighting. To […]

Swarming of the bees in the apiary

After the change of overwintered bees to young, the number of births increases rapidly. In the bee family, which reached 7-9 frames of brood, the mass of bees increases every day. Even the maximum egg laying by the uterus is already unable to fully load the bees by brood rearing. Usually such a moment coincides […]

Preservation of bees in greenhouses

In the years of the initial use of bees for pollination of crops grown in greenhouses, there were many factors that adversely affected bees, for example, greenhouses were of small size, most of them were odnoskatnye, cluttered shelves, which made bees more difficult to orient, led to the weakening and death of bees. The main […]