Onion honey of golden or yellow color with a slight smell and taste of onions, which after a while disappears. Onions bloom in July, on hot days, when the flowers of other honey plants almost do not emit nectar. Bees willingly visit the flowers of onions, getting nectar and a lot of flower pollen. The […]
No matter how much information is published about varroatosis, the fight against it, interest in this does not decrease. Prepared article, which contains the most necessary, priority information about this disease, showing the dynamics of the fight with the pathogen. As a result, we offer a kind of “memo” with a unified table of data […]
Just recently – just two years ago – I first got a beehive from the beehive … I remember how many difficulties there were in the first time. And at the deadlock I did not ask “what to do?”, But “how to do?”. In all the manuals, the authors disclose the technological side of beekeeping, […]
Strawberry drink. Mix half a glass of milk, 2 tablespoons of honey, 1/2 cup of mashed strawberries. Add a bunch of salt, knock down until a uniform mass is formed. Orange drink. For 1.5 cups of milk and 1/2 cup of orange juice, add 3 tablespoons of honey and beat well. Oat and milk drink. […]
2 tablespoons of honey, 3 eggs, 100 g of semolina, 100 g of walnuts, 50 grams of sugar, a little lemon zest. Beat eggs with sugar, honey and lemon zest until the appearance of foam. We mix the semolina and the nuts passed through the meat grinder. We pour the mass into a form covered […]
In a warm time, not having a prey in the field, bees make attempts to profit from other bee colonies. In such cases, the bees swirl around other hives and try somewhere through the gap, unnoticed by the bees guarding the chutes, to get inside the hive, and sometimes they climb straight into the chute. […]
Pylishche – a cutting knife for printing honeycombs, which I made, easy to manufacture, does not require large expenses, it is convenient, durable. To make a knife you need a frame and sawing – cutting blades. As a frame, I use a commercially available apiary knife (large or small). Pylasch – the cutting blade is […]
Chestnut honey of dark color, has a weak aroma, unpleasant to taste. Bees make this honey from the nectar of the chestnut tree flowers growing in our country mainly in the Crimea and Transcaucasia. Bees also make honey from nectar bell-shaped white and pink flowers of ornamental chestnut wood. This honey, unlike the first one, […]
Kvass (bread, berry, honey, etc.) – a favorite drink in our country. Even before the formation of Kievan Rus, the art of cooking different kvass was owned by the Eastern Slavs. Honey kvass (honey) is distinguished by good taste qualities, they are useful for the human body. Kvasses quickly quench thirst, excellent influence on the […]
During the migrations most of the work of the beekeeper must be performed in hot weather. And no matter how easy his clothes are, there is still a secretion of sweat, which excites and angers bees. It’s good to have a pond nearby. And if not? To wash from a bucket or a basin is […]