Pavilion equipment for bees

A warmed pavilion for keeping 4-10 families of bees can have a minimum area (from 6 to 10 m2), but at the same time an auxiliary room is needed to store inventory and equipment (reserve parts of hives, honeycombs, etc.) with the same or larger area. You can not insulate the storage room. With up […]

Milk and fruit drinks with honey

Recipe 1 A glass of yoghourt, 2 cups of fresh milk, 3 tablespoons of honey and sour cream, 150 ml of strawberry or raspberry juice (you can do without sour cream). Recipe 2 Two glasses of boiled cold milk, a glass of fresh carrot juice, juice of one lemon, a tablespoon of honey. Recipe 3 […]

Lateral warming of hives

The insulating cushions we sew almost always the same size – only for the top. If the nest is within nine frames, then such a pillow will not enter the empty lateral space. Lateral insulation in this way. I take two nested frames that have served their time, I put together their upper bars, and […]

Pasteurized honey

Pasteurized honey refers to light honey with good taste qualities. Bees make it from the nectar of large yellow flowers of a two-year-old parsnip plant growing wild in the Volga region.

Celery juice with honey

Potassium salts, which are contained in the celery juice, favorably affect the cardiovascular system, magnesium salts – on the nervous system, iron salts – on the processes of blood formation. Juice improves water-salt metabolism, acts as a diuretic, useful for obesity and neuroses, increases the general tone of the body, physical and mental activity. Applied […]

Cake “Red” with honey

In eggs, shot down with powdered sugar, add softened butter and honey and, without stopping whipping, put the mass on a water bath, heat to a temperature of 75-80 њ C. Heated mass removed from the water bath, add flour to it and bake 2 cakes (for each cake you have one tablespoon of dough). […]

Pollen in folk medicine

Two famous scientists informed the French Academy that clinical observations showed a positive therapeutic effect from the use of flower pollen in the treatment of sick children with anemia (anemia); due to the pollen, the content of red blood cells and hemoglobin rapidly increased and led to recovery. In patients with chronic colitis (inflammation of […]

Inspection of bee colonies

It is better to begin an examination with weak families, since they are more calm. Before proceeding to the inspection, prepare the necessary inventory: -2 … 3 frames with a drying or artificial wax are put in a portable box, kindle a smoke. Then I 2 smoke smoke clubs are allowed into the duct. After […]

Rice with honey

Boil rice in salted water (or milk) so that it is soft and crumbly, discarded on a sieve, cooled. Add raisins, toasted and chopped nuts, honey and mix. Put the slide into a salad bowl or vase, top with raisins, candied fruits, sprinkle with chopped nuts. It is very tasty, when you put down tops […]

Chemical composition of bee venom

Bee venom is a colorless thick liquid with a characteristic smell and bitter burning taste. She has an acid reaction. In the air it rapidly thickens, hardens and is freed from the volatile fraction. Easily soluble in water, worse – in formic acid and alcohol. Resistant against temperature changes. Cold (freezing) and high temperature (115 […]