Pollen toxicity of bees

Pollen toxicosis is an infectious disease of bee colonies caused by the pollen of poisonous plants. Causes of the disease. The disease develops in young bees when feeding pollen from poisonous plants. The bee pickers bring the pollen of poisonous plants to the hive without harm to themselves, since they place it in the hamstring […]

Replacement of buildings in the main families

The work is done in late May – early June, when the gardens bloom and the yellow acacia. In the evening, in cool weather, it is necessary to warm up the pavilion to 20-25 њ C. Having a good development of families, it is necessary to make a second rearrangement of the buildings in the […]

Homemade American wine with honey

Pour 10 l of apple juice into the dishes. Add honeycomb honeycomb combs (1000 g). The whole mixture is thoroughly mixed and allowed to stand for 10-12 hours, then the liquid is passed through a sieve and honey is added at a rate of 4 kg per 10 liters. The mass is poured into a […]

Cenotainiosis of bees

Cenotainiosis is an invasive disease that causes the death and weakening of bee colonies. The causative agent of the disease is the parasitic Fly Seno-tainia tricuspis. Female flies of cenotainia have a length of 6-8 mm, an ash-gray color with wide white strips on the head. The second tergite of the abdomen has two long […]

Honey with nuts

100 g of honey, 350 g of flour, 80 g of powdered sugar, 100 g of butter, 1 egg, 200 g of ground walnuts, 2.5 g of baking powder, milk. Honey, heated butter and sugar whisk until the appearance of foam. Add 150 grams of ground nuts and baking powder. Mix the flour and milk […]

Harvesting and storage of honey

Natural honey is usually sold in the market in two forms: sealed in a honeycomb or pumped out on a special honey extractor (centrifugal honey). Freshly pumped honey honey is transparent, with various shades (from light to dark), with a characteristic smell and special taste, a viscous liquid, the physical and chemical properties of which […]

Feeding base of beekeeping and measures to expand and improve it

For successful development and high productivity of beekeeping, as well as any branch of animal husbandry, a powerful and stable fodder base is necessary. The feeding base of beekeeping is honey plants of field crop rotations (fodder, oilseeds, technical, medicinal, melon and some vegetable crops, and from cereals – buckwheat), field-protective, forest, fruit-berry and other […]

Productivity of the family of the excretory fistula

In a number of foreign countries, where bees are close in nature to the Carpathian, the way to remove the uterus from brood (during the honey harvest) for the withdrawal of fetal uterus is one of the standard methods of transferring families into double-wool and is used to increase productivity and to multiply families. The […]

Insulator frame

It is known that high honey gathering can be obtained from strong families with young uterus. For the artificial withdrawal of queens in the early period, I use a special frame-insulator. Cross-section of the upper bar 15X25 mm, medium 12X25, bottom and side 6X25 mm. The rear wall is studded with a brass netting 1 […]

Popular signs of weather

Every beekeeper worries about what is expected in the coming winter, a spring or a long spring is coming, rainy or dry summer, etc. I want to share my observations with readers, who help to predict the weather not for a day or two, but for several months ahead. These are folk signs. They have […]