High concentration of sugars of honey ensures its long-term preservation. But bees have a method that reliably protects this product from spoilage during long-term storage: bees give the honey a sharply acid reaction (active acidity), and in acidic environments can not develop fungal spores, putrefactive and other bacteria. Two days after feeding the bees to […]
Portable multi-operation stand The use of typical machine tools, which has significant dimensions and cost, not every apiary is available. To facilitate carpentry, a portable small-sized stand design has been developed, which can be moved and installed in any convenient place. It is adapted for sawing and planing wood, selecting quarters in boards, drilling holes, […]
Foods for preparation: 500 g of honey, 500 g of flour, 20 g of lard, 120 g of powdered sugar, 3 egg yolks. Honey boil well, remove from heat, add to it 250 g of flour, 20 grams of smaltz, mix Homogenous mass and put in a warm place for 2-3 hours. 250 g of […]
Perhaps you will not meet a village or a farm, wherever bees are kept. You look, near the house in a small garden in a row there are colorful hives, pieces 5-6, and even a dozen and a half. Over the apiary there is a thick, even and even solemn ringing. In different directions hastily […]
The most common way to get new families is usually to build offsets. In this case, the family is formed by selecting from the one or more families 3 … 4 frames with young bees and a sealed brood. The brood is given a uterus or a sealed mother fruit. If frames with bees are […]
The work on the composition of the feed balance of apiaries is carried out in the following order: 1) take into account the species composition of the major honey plants, growing in the area of useful summer bees of this apiary; 2) determine the areas occupied by the honey plants; 3) calculate the honey reserve […]
It is not difficult to increase the apiary. Every swarm is a new family. Swarms work well and grow, safely winter. The next year they become strong families and can swarm themselves. Of course, not every family should leave swarms. After all, often swarm mediocre families, who collect a little honey. Due to such families, […]
To collect and bring nectar to the hive of bees, as well as in other insects (Hymenoptera), feeding on nectar, in the course of evolution have developed very sophisticated organs: proboscis licking-sucking type that bees collect even tiny droplets of nectar and honey zobik – tank collecting nectar and bringing it to the hive. Proboscis. […]
When roaming with multi-hulls, it happens that the battens weaken. The clip I offer for a rabid multi-hive hive is easy to use and reliable in operation. It consists of steel hooks, sliding locks and upper bracket. At one end of each hook 1, a M8 thread with a length of 30 mm is cut, […]
First a bit of history. With the introduction of PI Prokopovich (1814), and then L. Langstroth (1851) and L. Berleps (1852) into the practice of apiculture in beekeeping, the efforts of researchers and beekeepers-practitioners were aimed at finding and justifying the most optimal size of the framework and the corresponding Types of hives providing the […]