Disinfection of cellular frames

The causative agents of infectious diseases of bees persist for a long time on a variety of subjects, being a constant threat of re-infection, a factor in the epizootic trouble of the apiary or the terrain. That is why in the fight against infectious diseases of any kind, treatment without disinfection does not give positive […]

Maple honey

Maple honey belongs to light varieties, has excellent taste qualities. Bees energetically assemble it from beautiful yellowish-green flowers of a decorative shrub or a maple leaf, found in almost all forests. From a hectare of flowering maple, bees collect 200 kg of honey, and from the maple of the field – much more.

Special feeding of queen bees

In the spring-summer period, supplementary fertilizers are used to replace natural maintenance honey, or to cause increased activity of bees, or to give bees medicinal substances. Addition of bees during the withdrawal of queens. It has long been known that in the breeding of queens, the entry of fresh nectar and pollen into the hive […]

Honey and Perga as food of bees

For normal life and reproduction, animals, including bees, should receive with food the following nutrients: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, mineral salts, vitamins and water. All these substances are complex, high-molecular, have a large energy reserve. In the body they decompose to simple compounds, eventually forming simple low-molecular substances that are removed from the body by the […]

Correction of the family-processing

In a family with bee-workers I substitute combs with an open brood. When the first bees begin to seal cells, I again give them an open brood. If the family was weak, then I return some of the frames with the sealed brood to those laborers who have been harvested, since a large number of […]

What bees to plant

Each beekeeper wants to have the best bees to get more honey from them. Desire is quite natural and understandable. However, the possibilities for this are limited. Until now, beekeepers-breeders of the world, despite numerous attempts, failed to breed any breed of bees. It remains to use bees wild. Fortunately, they have excellent qualities. Honey […]

How to prepare pergu and pollen for feeding bees

Use perga, folded into a honeycomb. To obtain pergi, beekeepers use the old honeycombs culled (in autumn and spring). With the autumn culling of honeycombs, you can select all the frames (only from healthy families) that contain a lot of perga. To get a small amount of perga, the honeycomb is cut into strips so […]

Mannequin for boxers

The simulator is so dodgy that it is more difficult to fight with it than with a live opponent on a single dummy can train several athletes. “Boxer pear” – the main trainer in this sport – has no more than three degrees of freedom. It is suitable mainly for testing the force of impact. […]

Moving an apiary to the honey-combs

Our country is very rich in melliferous plants. They conceal huge reserves of nectar. Hundreds of thousands of tons of this healing liquid gold are poured over flowering meadows, fields and forests. But they grow in different places, often so far from the apiaries that the bees can not reach them. From their nests for […]

Meat, stewed in a sauce with prunes and honey

Raw meat, cut into portions, fry and put into a saucepan. There also add the chopped onion, tomato, rinsed and peeled prunes; all this stew on low heat until cooked. Before eating in the saucepan add honey. It is served in “sheep” or in a skillet of stainless steel with a sauce in which the […]