Providing bees with water

Bees eat liquid food, and the water available in honey completely satisfies their need, until they perform no work (in autumn, in winter). However, during the growing of larvae, the need for water increases. If bees bring a lot of nectar from plants, then the need for water is met by the available in nectar. […]

Sour cream sour cream sauce

It is good to heat a frying pan, set it aside from the fire, put 2-3 tbsp. spoons of flour and save until light brown. Frying pan leave from the fire, put 2-3 st. spoons of thick honey, mix with flour until the honey becomes liquid. Again put on a weak fire, add 4-5 spoons […]

Perception by bees of polarized light

Fig. 94. Observation beehive in an inclined position. Even with such a slight inclination bees can dance, guided by the direction of gravity. To more accurately study the behavior of bees on a horizontal dance floor, it is best to use an observation beehive that can be tilted and fixed with a screw and nut […]

How to make a heat chamber for processing bees

To increase the efficiency of anti-varrotic treatment of bees, we produced a thermocamera, the structure of which has been described with some modifications. The frame of the thermal chamber is made of bars measuring 30X30 mm. The outer walls are made of plywood, and the inner ones are made of textolite. The front wall consists […]

Sage honey

Sage honey of light amber or dark golden color, has a gentle pleasant aroma, good taste. The bees energetically assemble it from the bluish-violet flowers of the perennial half-shrub of the sage pharmacy, widely bred in Ukraine, in the Kuban, etc. From a hectare of flowering sage, bees collect 650 kg of honey.

Types of Cellular Cells

The bulk of the cells of the usual nesting honeycomb make up the bee cells. They have a hexagonal shape and serve to educate the larvae of working bees, as well as the folding of honey and perga. The trout cells also have a hexagonal shape, but are much larger in size. In them bees […]

Sweet-necked honey

Sladkonozhnikovy honey resembles a lime tree and differs from it only in a darker color. Has a strong aroma and good taste. The bees collect it from the flowers of the tree of the sweet-eared, or the hint, which grows in the Soviet subtropics and has a nutritional and decorative meaning.

Enemies and diseases of bees

The well-being of a bee family can be endangered, because it easily excites the greed of various gourmets. The bee colonies would have disappeared long ago from the face of the Earth if they had not protected their sweet winter stocks with poisonous weapons. In the homeland of their ancestors, in the ancient forest, from […]

Bee venom for the treatment of eye diseases

In folk medicine, bee venom has long been used in the treatment of certain eye diseases. In modern medicine, with the treatment of eye diseases – irites (inflammation of the iris) and umdocyclitis (inflammation of the ciliary body and iris), bee venom is successfully used. However, it should always be remembered that the application of […]

Honey creamy-egg cream with gelatin

Prepare a solution, gelatin with cream; 3 eggs with sugar grinded, warmed in a water bath in a saucepan with a mixture, during the warming up the mixture to knock. Then put the pan in cold water, add 2 tablespoons of honey and continue beating until a loose mass forms, cooling to the temperature of […]