Apiary Beefs

The beekeeper must know the melliferous flora of his locality and enrich it. Only then can he count on high honey gathering. He should remember that bees collect the maximum amount of nectar and pollen from those plants that are from the apiary within a radius of 2 km. With the removal of plants, the […]

Preservative properties of honey

Avicenna almost a thousand years ago pointed out that honey has high properties “to prevent decay and damage to meat.” Arab doctor and traveler of the XII century, Abd-al-Latif, found in one of the famous gizeh pyramids a tightly clogged vessel with honey, in which there was a fully preserved corpse of the infant belonging […]

Raspberry honey

Raspberry honey is light, has a very pleasant aroma, a wonderful taste. The honey from the raspberry is very gentle and it seems to melt in the mouth. This honey bees make nectar flowers of forest and garden raspberries. Raspberries in our country are widely bred and occupies a place of honor among the fruit […]

Preservation of skins

Quality hides – raw materials for the production of household items (footwear, clothing, etc.) depends on feeding, care, keeping animals, the rules of their slaughtering, as well as removal, storage, primary processing of raw materials. It must be remembered that the wrong face reduces the quality of raw materials. Experienced workers of slaughter stations perform […]

Honey Cake Gingerbread

Knead the dough and thinly shake. Cut into ribbons 2-3 cm long. Pieces of dough fry in sunflower oil, like verguns. Put the finished ribbons in a bowl with a slide. Honey lead to a boil and fill them with a hill of cookies. Let stand for 3-4 hours, and then put for a while […]

Combating wax moths by popular methods

Salt The wax moth, if not taken, can destroy the entire cellular stock. So, after you have pumped out the honey and released a significant number of honeycombs, dry them. Take a conventional sprayer OPS-5, which our industry produces to combat pests, in particular the Colorado beetle, fill it with a saturated solution of salt […]

Honey Nuts in Honey

Put the softened butter in the dishes and knock it down. Add, stirring, sour cream, and then in small portions – flour (50% of the norm) and knead the dough. Ready to put the dough on a table, sprinkled with flour, add the rest of the flour and continue kneading for 7-10 minutes. Simultaneously prepare […]

Hibernation of bees in the pavilion

The work is carried out when frosty weather sets in – November – early December. External tapholes are filled with a heater and tightly closed by gate valves, and internal ventilation openings are opened in the pallet bar. The hive provides a reliable (without drafts from the club) vertical ventilation. For this purpose, ventilation tubes […]

Cleaning of nectar from pollen by bees

In most plants, pollen and nectar are formed in one flower. The volatile, easily dispersed pollen in the air inevitably, sometimes in large quantities, falls into the nectar and is taken away by the bee. Honey with a lot of pollen is unsuitable for wintering bees. Nutrients of pollen grains at a low temperature in […]

American foulbrood

American foulbrood (malignant foulbrood, printed foulbrood) is an infectious disease of bee colonies, which causes their weakening and death as a result of decay of bee larvae at the age of pupation. American foulbrood is found in all countries of the world where beekeeping is developed. In the subtropics and tropics, the disease is more […]