Stir well the food, add egg whites to the foam and mix gently once more. Sheet grease with butter, a teaspoon spread on it dough in the form of tubercles and oven at low temperature. Dough: 50 g of honey, 100 g of sugar, 6 eggs, 300 g of ground walnuts, 50 g of hazelnuts […]
Once upon a time, my wasps attacked my apiary. They completely destroyed four families of medium strength. Bait in bottles here did not help. Then I decided to find another way to deal with these predators. Focusing on the fact that all workers in wasps die in winter, and only the fertilized females survive, began […]
Tear sugar with bacon until white and add the knocked egg and other ingredients. Bake in a frying pan or a plate with low heat. You can decorate the cake with glaze from melted candy. Dough: 2 cups of honey, a glass of butter, 2 eggs, a glass of sour milk, a teaspoon of soda, […]
If there is a possibility to choose an economy, where it is possible to buy bees, preference should be given to those apiaries that are famous for good honey collectors. Before buying bees, it is necessary to find out through the district zootechnician-beekeeper and veterinarians whether there are any infectious diseases and parasites of bees […]
To observe the life of a bee family it is good to have a small (just one frame) hive with transparent glass side walls. Through them you can see everything that is done in the nest. Bees as in a display case. They do not even suspect that they are being watched. They calmly do […]
At the apiary at the end of the productive season, a significant number of nesting and shopping honeycombs free from use in families are collected. After collecting the nests for wintering, it is advisable to divide these honeycombs into suitable for further use and those that need to be processed to produce wax raw materials. […]
Equipment and utensils: marching laboratories for determination of admixture of honey paddies, pad determinant, salt cellars with lids, glass sticks (sharpened at one end), chemical test tubes, 10 ml graduated, muffle furnace, desiccator, analytical balance. Materials and reagents: distilled water, rectified spirit (96 њ), acetic acid lead (25% aqueous solution), calcareous water, samples of honeydew […]
Looking through the old books, I found a recommendation to lay inter-frame spaces with slats 9X12X470 mm in size. I used this technique on my apiary and was very pleased with them. Reiki for a nest I make in the size 9X12X470 mm, for shops – 12X16X470 mm. Once a year (in free winter time) […]
Paratyph – an infectious disease, accompanied by late winter and spring diarrhea and death of adult bees. The causative agent – Bacterium paratyphi alvei – is a small, polymorphic rod with a rounded ends, 1-2 m long and 0.3-0.5 m wide; the spore does not form, mobile (peritrich), it is well painted with all aniline […]
Since I can not go to the apiary on a daily basis, I have made a timer device that gives bees syrup to stimulate the growth of families, replenish the stock of fodder for the winter, etc. To the vertical tank, equal in height to the multi-hull, attached the tap and filled it with water, […]