Removal of the brood brood

On the photo: 1 – honeycomb; 2 – frame with a drone brood. The proposed method of combating varroatosis consists in removing bee colonies from the nest and destroying the tartar brood affected by the varroa mite. The essence of the method is to embed a small frame with a drone honeycomb into a regular […]

Bees under the ground

One day in early August, in the field on a tractor mill, the machine operators noticed the years of bees, called me, and I was surprised at this unusual choice of place for a home. To store oil products, underground storage facilities were built here. The walls were laid out of stone to the surface […]

Accelerated way of growing seedlings

Fatima did not have enough pegs for a garter of tomato seedlings. What to do? Then the woman paid attention to the pipes her husband had laid over the beds in the fall. “I’ll fasten the seedlings to the pipe,” thought the peasant woman. And in order not to tie up with the growth of […]

Honeydew honey

Spray honey is transparent, with a greenish tinge, crystallization becomes white, in the form of snow pellets, and sometimes resembles cream or bacon. It becomes yellow when heated; has a delicate aroma, pleasant to the taste. The bees make it from the nectar of purple-red flowers of Cyprian, or Ivan-tea, which is often found in […]

Recipes for toning masks with honey

Recipe 1 A tablespoon of honey to warm up in a water bath to a full melting, add gradually a tablespoon of oatmeal and egg whites knocked into foam. Mass with a consistence of thick sour cream to put on the face and leave for 20 minutes. Wash the mask first warm, then with cold […]

Bee venom with neuralgia

Patients with inflammation of the sciatic, femoral and other nerves were treated; the majority in the past had rheumatism. It should be noted that almost all patients before the start of the course of treatment with bee venom had already been treated ineptly by usual medicamentous and physiotherapeutic methods. As a rule, after one or […]

Rotary mechanism of solar wax-furnace

Tip 1 It is known that the efficiency of the solar wax-up depends on the degree of illumination and the angle of incidence of the sun’s rays. To do this, it is made beveled to a certain angle, and also equipped with a device for turning around the vertical axis. Often rotary mechanisms are laborious, […]

Flower Pollen and Perga

Each plant has pollen grains of a certain shape (spherical, triangular, polyhedral), different in color (from white to dark brown), a size that in different plants is 0.01 to 0.05 mm in diameter. Plants form a huge amount of pollen grains. For example, one apple tree contains about 100 thousand, hazel – 4 million, birch […]

Bee venom in folk medicine

Long-term observations and collected personal data on the state of health of beekeepers have shown that bee venom is a good remedy for certain diseases and has preventive properties. However, it should be remembered that with mismanagement, bee venom can bring irreparable harm. In vain are beekeepers, and some doctors consider bee venom as a […]

Bezalaceous bees of melipon

Bees that do not sting? Yes, there are such! They exist even a few hundred species, but not with us. They live in the tropics of the Old and New Worlds. There were attempts to acclimatize these bees from us. Who does not want to have a “rose without thorns!” But this was a double […]