Drying cabinets for berries and fruits

Fruits, berries, mushrooms can be dried in drying cabinets. Dried plums, apricots, and pears are delicious and mouth-watering in appearance. Drying cabinets should be placed in an unsealed area. The cabinet is made of sheet

Breeding work on the withdrawal of queens

The main goal of the breeding work is constant improvement of useful and economic qualities in bee families, as well as an increase in the productivity of beekeeping. Breeding work consists in: Selection and selection

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

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

Hive multi-storey

The best hive is one that resembles a hollow – the natural habitat of honey bees. This is just the case with the multi-hull vertical hive. In it, bees can live just as they have

How to make a universal trolley at home

Fig. 1. Universal lift truck A hand pallet truck is required in each household. Some design changes allow to significantly expand the possibilities of using this vehicle. The welded frame 1 of the lift truck

Harvesting, storage and use of honey combs

Prepare winter-spring honey reserves should be in the form of full honey combs with sealed cells. Honey in the sealed cells is easier to store, since it is isolated from the surrounding air. In unsealed

How to protect honeycombs from wax moths

In winter, all honeycomb frames are placed in a warm room with a temperature of 20-24 њ C, I clean the bars of wax. At the same time, I partially destroy the eggs of the

Procurement, storage and use of honeycomb with perga

The bees primarily consume freshly introduced pollen. But if it is not enough or the shoulders can not make it because of the bad weather, or there are no flowering pollen plants, they consume the

Mobile Pavilion

Being engaged in the pavilion content of bees, I regularly get acquainted with the relevant literature. I carefully read all the materials published on the pavilion content of bees in Siberia, the article frankly surprised.

Parsnip and honey juice

This is a wonderful remedy for angina pectoris, neuroses with spasms, carpio neuroses, as well as spasms of the digestive tract, bile ducts, kidneys, ureters, and impotence. Juice of parsnip is added to other juices,

Need of a bee family in the stern

When organizing a beekeeping farm, it is necessary to be able to calculate how many bee colonies can be kept under given specific conditions or what honeybase should be created for the required number of

Properties of royal jelly

Beekeepers from the time of Aristotle were interested in the question of why the queen bee, which emerged from the same egg as all bees, is almost twice as long and heavier than the worker

Change of two-year-old queens

The work is carried out on June 5-8, during the flowering period of gardens and yellow acadia, in order to eliminate swarming and the simultaneous replacement of two-year-old queens in half of the families. In

Ham Hamster

Hamster kozheed (Dermestes lardarius L.) – a beetle 8 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, black, with transverse grayish-brown stripes on the anterior part of the elytra, on a strip of 6 black dots. Eggs he