Often in beekeepers through ill-timed struggle with varroatosis die bee colonies. It should be remembered – the critical moment in the bee colonies comes when the old bee is replaced with the winter bee, ie. after the honey collection. During this period, and you need to maximally release the bees from the tick with the […]
Black currants wash, drain, remove stems, wipe through a frequent sieve and mix with honey. Serve in small cups, adding carbonated water and putting in each cup of a piece of food ice. Norm of products: black currant – 600 g, honey – 5 tablespoons, carbonated water – 2 cups (from Polish cuisine). Recipe 2 […]
The composition of the wax includes about 50 chemical compounds, among which up to 75% of complex fats, 12-15% of limit carbohydrates and 13-15% of free fatty acids. Wax also contains trace elements, substances that give it a certain color (white, yellow, reddish) and odor. Wax is dissolved only in fatty essential oils, gasoline, turpentine, […]
Sturgeon honey is greenish-yellow, has a weak aroma and pleasant taste. For long-term storage is not suitable. The bees make it from the nectar of the fragrant golden yellow flowers of the weed of the rape, which is often found near lakes, marshes, on moist meadows, etc. About 40 kg of honey is collected from […]
Fig. Steam knife for printing out honeycombs. Ordinary double-edged knives with a long thin blade and a curved handle fully meet their purpose. To heat the knives during work, the baths or samovar are used. Each worker should have 2 knives: one heats up, and the other works. However, opening with knives can not satisfy […]
To save spare queens in winter, I made a nucleus for a quarter of the standard frame. Its internal dimensions are 410X180X XI60 mm. The thickness of the walls is 25, the height of the overburden is 70 mm. The nucleus was divided by plywood partitions into three compartments, in each of which he placed […]
Scientists estimated that a large titmole per day flies to the nest with food for chicks more than 350 times, and a gray flycatcher and some other small insectivorous birds – over 400. For 14-16 days, when a yellow-headed baby is in the nest, a large titmouse brings in more than 2 kg of different […]
Wintering bees at will is economically advantageous, since there is no need to build winterers and in unnecessary laborious work for placing bees in them. Bees used to fly over, more viable. Practice has proved that bees are free to winter successfully when there is a lot of snow on the apiary, when the ventilation […]
The work is performed on August 8-15, at the end of the honey collection. Selection of honey hulls, formation of a nest for preparation for wintering and autumn building of bees, feeding of bees with sugar syrup, 12-15 kg of sugar per basic family and 6-8 kg per batch are made. After removal of the […]
I had to apply various methods of combating varroatosis: I poisoned the mite with phenothiazine, thymol, burning some herbs in the smoke, but everything was ineffective. Finally, I found what to take him. In the period of active development of bees in families there is a lot of drone brood, that’s when I start to […]