Honey recipes from allergies in children

Last time we already started talking about the “illness of the century” – allergies, which, alas, so often affects our kids. One of the most common forms of it is an allergic rhinitis. In the spring, hardly the sun warms, the grass turns green, the first leaves appear on the trees, the apple trees blossom, […]

Shanrow honey

Shantrovy honey belongs to light honey and has an exceptionally pleasant aroma and high taste qualities. Bees extract this honey from nectar of gray-white flowers of a branchy perennial plant of shandra white, or horse mint, in the Caucasus, in Central Asia. Bees willingly visit shandra, whose flowers attract them with their concentrated sweet and […]

Use of honey in folk medicine

The healing properties of honey known to man for a long time. Honey as an important healing agent is recommended in the recipes of many ancient medical institutions. It is sung in the annals, bylinks, stories, songs. An ingenious doctor and thinker of antiquity, Hippocrates, who lived for 107 years, used honey in his medical […]

Rat-catcher with their own hands

1 – the chamber; 2 – pipe; 3 – canvas sleeve; 4 – wire, 5 – bait. I want to offer you a simple and fairly effective rat-trap. It is simple: we insert a canvas sleeve into a pipe with a diameter of 50 mm, in which we fasten several rows of a steel spring […]

Wax Sushi Storage

An important condition for the development of bee colonies, preservation of their health and saturated pollination of greenhouse crops is the provision of bee families with honeycomb (wax drying). In large beekeeping farms, the sushi is stored in sewers, where frames with a small distance are suspended from one another on racks. Thanks to the […]

Carefully snakes

In early August, I transported bees from sunflower to tobacco. The field of tobacco was near the forest. Apiary placed in a clearing. During the inspection, the hives in one of them suddenly discovered a snake. She climbed into the ventilation slits and curled into a tangle between the net and the roof lining. The […]

Latvian honey kvass

Put honey in boiling water and stir well. When the liquid has cooled to 20 њ C, add the yeast, lemon juice or citric acid, and leave to stand for 10-12 hours. Cool and pour into bottles, cork. 5 liters of water is required: honey – 800 g, yeast – 25 g, lemon – 2 […]

Bees of the genus

You could talk about all this for a long time. But it is better to turn to those forms in which you can find the beginnings of a social way of life. Some species of bees in places with good conditions for nesting have their nests close to each other. Although these insects are completely […]

How to treat nezematosis of bees

Nosematosis is an invasive disease accompanied by a disorder of the intestine and changes in the midgut of adult bees and queens. Economic damage. In northern and central regions, this disease causes great harm – causing death or a strong weakening of bee colonies. The causative agent of the disease. Nosema – Nosema apis – […]

Pollen and Perga

Flower pollen has recently enjoyed such a huge success that its value can be placed close to honey. On a clear summer day, standing not far from the hive hive, one can observe how bees return to their wax city with a load of flower pollen. Collected pollen bees are carried in the “baskets” of […]