Melon – a surprise with honey

1 medium-sized melon, strawberries, raspberries, plums, ripe peaches, currants, 2 tablespoons brandy, honey to taste. Melon is washed out under a strong stream of cold water. Cut out the “cap”, take out the core with a spoon. We put inside strawberries, raspberries, cut plums, peeled and crushed peas, currants so that the melon was almost […]

Miracle-wax-furnace

Each apiary has a solar wax-up. In it, bright light honeycombs are re-heated and with a minimum of labor they receive high-quality wax. However, it can not be used effectively in the early spring and autumn, when the days are short, and the sun warms poorly. This can be avoided. The corpus of the voskotopki […]

Bronchial honey

Bronchial honey belongs to first-class honey, has a light amber color, a pleasant aroma, very good taste qualities. This honey is a thick consistency, slowly crystallizes. The bees collect it from the pink and bright blue flowers of the bruise, or the blush, a plant widespread in the south of the Soviet Union. A blooming […]

Extract honey

Extraordinary honey of white color, fragrant, delicious. This first-class honey honey bees are made from nectar collected from numerous golden-yellow flowers of weeds – sow.

Podsadka uterus in the cell and under the cap

The young families-laps of queens are planted in metal or plastic cages. For the bees, the uterus is inaccessible and safe. Wire mesh cells – a reliable protection. In order for the bees to take the uterus, it is necessary to give them the opportunity to feel their orphanhood properly. Only after this, the cage […]

Cake “Ideal” with honey

Prepare this cake in a water bath. In a large pot put a smaller saucepan, put her butter, sugar and a little bit of eggs. All stir well and add honey. Mass a little salt, pour soda (extinguished with vinegar). Keep the mass on the steam bath for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Then pour in […]

Pasechnye buildings

In the apiary it is necessary to have an apiary house, a canopy for a control hive and a winter hut. Pasechny little house The house is best placed in the middle of the apiary, if it is large, so that you do not have to do too far with loads in the form of […]

Beating the Drones

Even before the bookmarks of the queen cells are registered, the bee-cells are built, where the first drones, “gluttonous, fat, lazy and stupid” are deduced in early May, as the German poet-satirist Wilhelm Bush talks about them. Drones do not participate in the collection of food; nature has not at all adapted them for this. […]

Fly around after a long winter

And then, finally, the day comes when bees after a long winter can come to freedom. All winter they stayed in the hives, fleeing from the cold. All the long winter they patiently waited for this warm day of spring. When only the hive warms up with the sun and the air warms, the family […]

Framing frames

Beehive frames should be piled with whole sheets of artificial wax. With this nastavity, the work of the bees is facilitated and accelerated; a smaller number of bees are occupied by the construction of honeycombs, therefore, more bees can go for nectar and pollen, resulting in a greater honey harvest; usually honeycombs with bee cells […]