The bee family and its composition

Spring is the time of flowering, the abundance of food and the most intensive brood rearing. With the rapidity with which the larva develops, the zealous egg laying by the uterus leads to a rapid

A significant number of lovers, to buy one or two bee colonies, want to increase them quickly. There are two ways of accelerated reproduction: the first – the use of swarm queen cells, the second,

With the advent of spring, beekeepers and bees are accepted for work. For the first flight I put the bees out of the winter hut at a stable air temperature of 8-10 њ C and

In a warm time, when a single bee does not chill, healthy and strong families guard the ice and reflect the enemies. Bees carrying security often change. Fig. Uterus on a honeycomb. Weak families do

The life of worker bees is very active, especially in spring and summer. They all their lives carry out various works, which are extremely numerous. Therefore, the bee’s strengths are soon depleted and the wings

The bees are waiting impatiently for spring. As soon as a warm day (10-12 њ in the shade) comes out, they hurry to fly around in order to get rid of the feces. And when

To the newly planted uterus in the cells, bees do not always treat the same: sometimes they are accepted willingly, but there are cases that they do not accept or kill at the release. It

With the onset of spring time comes an important moment in the work of every beekeeper – a complete inspection of the bee colon. It is carried out after the first spring flight of bees

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

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

In June, the uterus of Ukrainian and Carpathian bees has the greatest fertility, laying over 2,000 eggs daily. At the end of the month, each family can number more than 55-85 thousand bees. During this

At present, in Ukraine, the nectariferous base is poor. In a number of areas, honey is not significant or even completely ceases. After flowering of nectariferous plants, families prepare for wintering, and the bees have

For the apiary, an elevated dry place, a sloping southern or southeastern slope (up to 5 њ), the edge of the garden, is best suited, so that the plantations protect the apiary from the northern

The latest studies show that bees of one family during their stay in the hive are in constant “feed” contact with each other. Beginning from the first day of life, the young bee not only

Even before the bookmarks of the queen cells are registered, the bee-cells are built, where the first drones, “gluttonous, fat, lazy and stupid” are deduced in early May, as the German poet-satirist Wilhelm Bush talks