Instrumental insemination of queens

For beekeeping, it is simply necessary to identify, fix and breed the best genotypes in which the best signs of economically useful bees are fully present. That is, the newly-derived bees must be as productive as possible, and also be able to adapt well to natural climatic and medosborne conditions. A high degree of purity […]

Feed in a hive

If the season has developed unsuccessfully and the bees do not even stock up their food for the winter, they have to feed sugar syrup. However, it is better to give them honey. Experienced beekeepers in this case always keep it in reserve. But bees can live on sugar forage. The syrup is prepared as […]

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 bees, has the amazing ability to store a colossal number of eggs (up to 2,000 or more per day) , […]

A solution for dressing skins

Rabbit For 3 liters of water a tablespoon of salt and detergent. For 3 liters of warm water on a tablespoon of salt, washing powder, a glass of vinegar. In both cases, soak the skins for 3 days. Nutria 1. To 3 liters of water half a glass of salt, and a half cup of […]

The simplest wax-furnace

Wax raw materials in the apiary are processed in two ways: without boiling – in wax and with boiling – on voskopresse. The greatest yield of quality wax is obtained when pressing raw materials. The magazine published a lot of descriptions of the original high-performance designs of waxes, allowing you to combine the processes of […]

Sopka for controlling weeds in the apiary

This hoe will be useful, to everyone who has a household plot. It has a simple design and a rather awkward manufacturing technology. The hood consists of brackets 1, at one end of which there is a fixed yoke 2 with a handle 3, and on the second – a knife 6. The handle is […]

Gingerbread honey cake

Proteins from 5 eggs and yolks from 3 eggs to bring down with honey (preferably with buckwheat), add wheat flour, crushed nutmeg, cinnamon and a bit of anise. Mix well and pour lightly toasted crushed almonds. Ready dough to swing a layer of 1 cm thick, cut out into shapes or bake whole. Dough: 220 […]

Stretcher for hives

Bear hives with bees within a point is often enough, especially during the wandering and when putting them into a winter hut. For this purpose I made a stretcher of my own design. They consist of four metal plates measuring 400X20XX5 mm. In each of them, two holes with a diameter of 5 mm were […]

Swarm of bees

Spring is the time of flowering, the abundance of food and the most intensive brood rearing. With the rapidity with which the larva develops, the zealous egg laying by the uterus leads to a rapid increase in the number of bees in the family and, as a result, to a rapid increase in the family, […]

Petrovsky kvass with honey

For 1 liter of water, take 100 g of kvass extract, 75 g of honey, 40 g of grated horseradish, 8-9 g of yeast. Extract kvass diluted in warm boiled water, add horseradish, yeast and put in a warm place to ferment for 5-6 hours. As soon as kvass begins to foam, strain it, add […]