Bustilat enjoys the public deserved popularity. Or gluing a tile, or linoleum, or wallpaper – everywhere it is necessary. Probably, that’s why it’s hard to get it. What to do when there is no bustle, and you need to glue? It turns out that a universal adhesive can be obtained at home. It is necessary […]
This delicious drink is prepared in a keg. Pick up the mature and clean cherries and fill them with a barrel, leaving unfilled at the top 15-20 cm. In the barrel of cherries pour honey. Honey must be poured slowly, so that all the space between the cherries was filled. Then the barrel is carefully […]
The annual cycle of development and life of a bee family can be divided into the following periods: A) the period of spring development of the bee family, B) the period of reproduction of families or swarming, C) the period of honey collection, D) the period of preparation for wintering, E) wintering period. In practice, […]
In the spring, when looking at bee colonies, it is possible to find moldy and worn honeycomb frames. As a rule, they are rejected, but the apiary is not always provided with honeycombs. Therefore, I try to use them after appropriate processing. I do so. I slowly immerse the frame in the bath so that […]
The content of hives and frames in the purity is the most important duty of every beekeeper. It is unacceptable to keep bees on stained cell stems and in a dirty beehive. Sludge and dirt represent a fertile soil for the development of diseases and pests. The main spring cleaning and disinfection of the hives […]
Many beekeepers of large industrial farms, realizing the inevitability and high efficiency of fertilizing, are seeking ways to reduce labor on distribution of food to bees. In bee-breeding farms, it is necessary to feed the families-educators daily during all without honey-gathering days. It is necessary to feed the fathers’ families in order to prevent the […]
Requirements for the hives. The beehive is the home of bees, an artificially created man, so it must most fully satisfy the biological characteristics of the bee family and at the same time be strong enough, cheap, easy to manufacture and convenient to work with. As a home for bees, the beehive must be sufficiently […]
The presence of large stocks of feed in the nest developed a complex reflex in bees, aimed at reliably preserving them from the adverse effects of temperature and humidity of the surrounding air and protecting them from numerous enemies and pests. Cells with ready (mature) honey bees are sealed with thin, air-tight wax lids. Honey […]
Coriander bees are readily collected from white or pink flowers of a valuable essential oil plant of coriander, which grows wild in Central Asia and Transcaucasia. From a hectare of flowering coriander bees collect 500 kg of honey, which has a sharp aroma and a specific taste.
Acacia (white-acacia) honey is one of the best varieties. In the liquid form it is transparent, crystallization (sugariness) becomes white, fine-grained, resembling snow. Acacia honey contains 35.98% of glucose and 40.35% of levulose (fructose) – the sweetest sugar in nature (levulose is 1.7 times sweeter than sucrose sugar extracted from sugar beet and sugar cane, […]