Perhaps all of you love honey. In fact, what could be sweeter than honey! In its fragrant amber drops like infusion of meadow grasses, the smell of July lime groves, the spark of the sun. And in them a huge work of amazing insects – honey bees. Since ancient times a person has used the […]
Working bees are females, but in the process of development these insects lost their ability to reproduce. They ceased to operate the reproductive system, although in the distant past, like all females, they laid eggs, raised their descendants, continued the genus. Now on working bees lie literally all the responsibilities for servicing the bee family. […]
Blueberry honey of reddish color, has an exceptional aroma, pleasant to the taste. Bees produce honey from the nectar of the well-known low bush semicrubberry. Blooming blueberry is a good honey plant, from which bee colonies collect 2.5 kg of honey per day.
Nowadays, the wax is made in factories, because ordinary beekeepers do not have enough skill for its manufacture, without spending excessive wax and damaging the finest engraving on the surface of the rollers. Propolis depleted by bees is removed from wax plants. Acids are not used for cleaning. With this treatment, the wax retains its […]
Growth and development of the bee family under favorable conditions of the environment (plenty of food, proper temperature, etc.) is provided by all three forms of individuals: the uterus, working bees and drones, but their role in this is not the same. Uterus is the only fully developed female in the family. Its function is […]
The frame is one of the most important components of the hive. It provides a strong impact on the life of the bee family during all periods of its existence, creates convenience in working with bees. The standard Hoffmann frame for the multi-hull Langstroth-Ruta with a width of 37 mm permanent separators does not allow […]
The work is carried out in the first half of October, when you can not count on a natural flight of bees. At a temperature of 10-12 њ C, the windless and sunny pavilion warms up to 20-22 њ C. During this period, bees are given 200-250 ml of warm syrup, placing an inverted half-liter […]
Bees are angry and all the sharp movements are running along the apiary, brushing off the approaching insect, nervous behavior. Obviously, in this they perceive a threat. By the way, the eyes of the bees are arranged so that they instantly perceive the slightest fluctuations and immediately react to them. If the bees are angry, […]
Procurement of fodder stocks is made during a good bribe. The frames completely occupied with printed honey are selected, as well as honey-pergovian. If the families are kept in 12-frame hives, then during a strong bribe, families are often replaced by second-frame hulls instead of the usual half-frame supplements, using, if necessary, two stores knocked […]
To obtain honey containing various vitamins, sweet solutions were made from rose hips, which contains a large number of vitamins C, B, E, A (carotene), from juices of various vegetables and in some cases from synthetic vitamin preparations. Bees produced from artificial multivitamin solution honey, which contained not only a complex of vitamins, but also […]