Masonry bees

But, perhaps, the most amazing nests are arranged by a bee – a mason. She looks for an empty shell for each egg, brings her fodder dough to the depths for the larva and lays an egg on it. Fig.107. The nest of a bee is a mason in the empty shell of a snail. […]

Cold bees are not terrible

In a large cluster of bees (and in the winter club of a strong family there are 30-35 thousand insects, and their density is very high) it is quite easy for them to create the heat necessary for life and support it without much effort. The accumulation of insects, densely covered with hairs, is a […]

Bee baby

The young, just hatched chicken – the creature is in many respects underdeveloped, but in general it is very similar to the parents. He, like them, already has wings, legs and eyes. And out of the bee-egg, a small white worm without a head, eyes, wings and without legs, has no the slightest resemblance to […]

Wax

Economic importance of wax The value of beeswax for the national economy is extremely large. Thanks to a number of valuable properties, beeswax is the most important raw material for the socialist industry, and is used in more than 40 of its branches: aviation, metallurgy, electrical engineering, radio engineering and many others. Thus, in the […]

Enemy bee bee-eater

We have two kinds of bee-eaters (osoidae): 1) Pernus apivorus and 2) Pernus apivorus orientalis. The former is found mainly in the European part (except for the Crimea and the Caucasus), and the second, larger in size, is distributed in Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, southern Transbaikalia, southern Baikal, Irkutsk region and in some cases in southern […]

Orange honey

Orange honey is one of the best varieties of honey. A fragrant, reminiscent of the smell of citrus flowers. Pleasant to the taste. Bees make it from flowers of citrus plants-mandarines, lemons, oranges-growing in Abkhazia, Ajaria, Georgia.

Apiary in September

Warming of the hives, which was used in August to stimulate the deposition of eggs by uterus, should be removed. Malomedovye honeycomb in the center of the nest should be replaced by full-honey. Each of them should contain about 2 kg of honey. At the same time, you need to take care that there are […]

Councils with honey in folk medicine

Aloe (century, Sabur). For medicinal purposes, a thickened leaf juice is used. In folk medicine, the juice of fresh aloe leaves mixed with fat and honey in the following proportions is used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in the following proportions: honey of high-grade bee, especially lime honey, 100 grams of butter, 100% of […]

Honey in diseases of the stomach

Folk wisdom says that bees are the best friend of the stomach. Honey has a good effect on digestion. The systematic use of honey in food normalizes the work of the gastrointestinal tract. Based on clinical observations, the author of the book came to the conclusion that bees honey in combination with certain foods reduces […]

Clover honey

Clover honey is colorless, transparent, has high taste qualities, is considered one of the best light varieties of honey. When crystallized, it turns into a solid white mass. This honey contains 34.96% of glucose and 40.24% of levulose. Bees are processed from nectar harvested from a hectare of white or creeping clover flowers, 100 kg […]