Hives in the hibernate

You can carry bees for winter. These winterers are either especially suited, or accommodate empty buildings. Some large beekeeping farms use subterranean and semi-underground zymovniki. Beekeepers-lovers, especially in places with severe winter, often put beehives in and underground homes. Zimovniki protect bees from winds and frosts, and even those equipped can even maintain the necessary […]

Limitation of the laying of eggs by the uterus

Some beekeepers persistently recommend limiting (laying down) the laying of eggs by the uterus during the main bribe, claiming that such a technique can get much more honey than with complete freedom of drafting. At the same time, they proceed from the fact that a lot of honey is spent on brood rearing and the […]

How to use pollen

Pollen in the form of grains is indigestible, since human gastric juice can not destroy the outer membrane (film) – the ectium, which surrounds each grain. The components of the pollen grains can be extracted only through the smallest holes of the ecthim, if you grind pollen grains in the smallest powder, or insist pollen […]

Transportation of bees for pollinating crops

It has long been observed that the best yield of fruits or seeds of crops and the greatest honey harvest are when the apiary is on the area of ​​flowering crops or in the immediate vicinity of it. That is why for pollination of plants and increase in yield, as well as for honey harvesting, […]

Top dressing of bees in the pavilion

Among beekeepers there is a different opinion about the need for feeding bees to bees to replenish winter food reserves, and for the most rational concentration of sugar syrup. Some speak convincingly about the unacceptable wear of bees when processing a significant amount of sugar syrup, others on the basis of experimental data show that […]

Feeding bees with stern honey

To feed bees with honey it is necessary in rare cases, as it is more expedient to leave fodder honey in honeycombs (not to pump out) and if necessary to substitute honey combs in nests of bees. Usually bees are fed with sugar syrup replacing honey, or honey in the following three cases: – to […]

Prospects for treatment with bee venom

Tablets contain different amounts of bee venom, purified from toxic protein (protein), and are colored in different colors depending on the dose of the poison. Coloring is carried out by harmless vegetable paints. For one course of treatment, it is recommended to take 28 tablets containing 215 bees poison. The studies showed that the tablet […]

Honey dried kvass

Well brown rusks (rye) pour warm water and put on a day in a warm place. On the other day, add the dried water to another dish and add honey (twice as much as biscuits for biscuit), add yeast diluted with kvass, stir, cover and warm. When the yeast floats up, remove them, and carefully […]

Size of the apiary in the greenhouse

The number of bee colonies in the apiary is established on the basis of the maximum need of the economy for bee colonies for pollination of greenhouse crops. To do this, greenhouses in which cross-pollinated crops will be grown and the required number of bee colonies for their pollination will be counted. In addition, we […]

How do bees talk to each other?

The previous chapters talked about training, which allows you to get some data about the feelings of bees. The prerequisite for such experiments is that the bees we want to train come to our experimental table. To attract bees to the experimental table, we put on it several sheets of paper, richly oiled with honey. […]