Wasps

Wasps prbnikayut in a hive and kidnap honey, and sometimes bees for feeding larvae. There are many species. The most common on apiaries are common wasp (Vespa vulgaris), polist (Polistis gallica), forest wasp (Vespa silvestris), average wasp (Vespa media), red wasp (Vespa rufa). Wasps live, like hornets, by families, which become numerous at the end […]

Honey for wound healing

In combination with fish oil honey is suitable for the treatment of infected (purulent) wounds, burns. AS Budai used honey to treat long-healing wounds and ulcers and received a good therapeutic effect. During the Great Patriotic War, some surgeons used honey in the treatment of the wounded.

Drones of a bee family

In addition to the uterus and worker bees, drones live in the bee family – its male part. These are large insects with large, almost full head, complex eyes, powerful wings, developed muscles. They are stronger than females, fly with great speed, quickly navigate in space. No drones perform any work in the nest or […]

Feeding bees treacle

To use sweet substances for feeding bees, it is necessary to know if bees are able to assimilate them, and if they are capable, then to what extent. There is a simple and sufficiently reliable method for assessing nutritional value for bees of carbohydrate feeds (sugars), soluble in water. For the experiment, bees are taken, […]

Nuts with honey

Fresh nuts to peel, peel, dry. White honey boil until it turns red. Stir all the while, pour in so many nuts, so that the mass becomes thick. Brew is not very long. Try: If the honey on the spoon will stiffen and keep up with a spoon, just take a spoon nuts, put on […]

Radioactive honey

Radioactive honey. It has long been established that different types of honey differ not only in color, specific flavor and taste, but also in chemical composition and medicinal properties. The chemical composition of honey depends in part on flowering honey plants, from which bees collect nectar, and even from the soil on which the mead […]

A peculiar winter hut

The scheme of the greenhouse: a – partially composed; b – mounted completely. There are many options for building greenhouses. This is a kind of construction of multifunctional purpose with a spatial casing of plastic pipes and awning or film coating. The frame is made from polyvinylchloride pipes in the form of arches 7, which […]

Lavender honey

Lavender honey belongs to the category of first-class. This golden honey, which has a delicate aroma, makes bees from the nectar of light blue or bluish-violet flowers of the perennial essential oil plant of lavender. Lavender is cultivated on the southern coast of the Crimea, the Kuban and the Caucasus.

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 […]

Cake honey “bird’s milk&quot

Dough: 2 tablespoons of honey, 4 tablespoons of milk, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 egg, 2.5 glasses of flour, a teaspoon of soda. Cream: 1 cup of milk, 1 tablespoon of flour, 1/2 cup of sugar, 100 g of oil. Glaze: 4 tablespoons of milk, 2 tablespoons of cocoa, I an incomplete glass of sugar. Honey, […]