Pumpkin juice with honey

The pumpkin contains many pectin substances, fiber, which favorably affect the motor function of the colon, prevent constipation, and also promote the removal of cholesterol from the body. Through a low energy value, pumpkin dishes are useful with excessive body weight, obesity. It is necessary to use pumpkin juice in diseases of the kidneys, liver, […]

Acarapidosis of bees

Acarapidosis (tick disease, acarosis, White’s disease) is an invasive disease of bee colonies, which causes tracheal injury. Economic damage. Disease in winter and spring causes weakening and death of bee colonies; spreads slowly, first weak, and then much harm to the apiaries. The causative agent of the disease is Acarapis woodi mite. The tick is […]

Reproduction of bee colonies and the withdrawal of queens

Equipment: boxes for transferring frames, uterine cells, hives of various systems, caps for isolation of queens, hacksaw, plane, hammers, mites, pillows, insert boards. Materials: thin plywood, wooden bars, small nails, canvases. Drawing up a calendar plan for the withdrawal of queens. Drawing up a plan for the withdrawal of queens is usually divided into three […]

Hyssop honey

Hyssop honey in its organoleptic properties refers to first-class specimens. The bees make it from the nectar of the dark-blue flowers of the medicinal and honey-bearing semi-shrub plant of hyssop, found in wild condition in Ukraine, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Altai, etc. Bred hyssop for obtaining essential oil and as a valuable honey on apiaries.

Hook for the queen bee

The cell, used by beekeepers for uterine growth, is not without flaws. I designed my universal uterine cell. It is simple in structure and consists of a body, lid, feeder (fixed tightly), hook and flaps. The size does not differ from the standard. Due to the fact that the cell has a flap on the […]

Protection of bees from poisoning

To obtain sustainable high yields of hothouse crops, pest and plant diseases are controlled using pesticides. Pesticides used in greenhouses are classified by action: – on contact – cause the death of insects when they fall on their body. Most of these pesticides do not pose a threat to bees; – on intestinal – cause […]

Bee venom with hypertension

In folk medicine, it is known that bee venom lowers blood pressure. This property of bee venom is confirmed by experiments on animals. In studies on dogs, it has been established that intravenous injection of the venom of one bee causes a slight decrease in blood pressure; the introduction of poison from several dozen bees […]

Artificial formation of new bee colonies

In order not to allow a large number of bees not to work in the bee colony, and to maintain a high working mood, distracting bees from swarming, from strong, healthy bee colonies, reaching 7-9 frames of brood, a mature printed brood with bees (or without bees) in so much (2-3 frames), so as not […]

Buckwheat honey

Buckwheat honey is dark yellow with a reddish tinge and dark brown color. Unlike other varieties has a peculiar flavor and specific taste. When crystallized, it turns into a gruel-like mass. Some tasters note that when eating buckwheat honey, it “tickles your throat.” Buckwheat honey contains 36.75% glucose and 40.29% levulose, as well as much […]

The first inspection of a bee family in a greenhouse

After the purification flight, the bees proceed to clean the nest, begin to feed the uterus intensively, and the uterus – lay eggs. If the brood was seven before the introduction of the hive into the greenhouse, now its number is significantly increased. On the 3-4th day after the introduction of the bee family into […]