One summer morning, just as if a dozing hive at the bees of scouts suddenly comes to a strong excitement. Sobbing in the tap, the bees begin to fly out of the nest, as if some unknown force drives them. Insects, trying to get ahead of each other, hurry and hard take off and, as […]
Perhaps you will not meet a village or a farm, wherever bees are kept. You look, near the house in a small garden in a row there are colorful hives, pieces 5-6, and even a dozen and a half. Over the apiary there is a thick, even and even solemn ringing. In different directions hastily […]
It is not difficult to increase the apiary. Every swarm is a new family. Swarms work well and grow, safely winter. The next year they become strong families and can swarm themselves. Of course, not every family should leave swarms. After all, often swarm mediocre families, who collect a little honey. Due to such families, […]
The bee-thief can be easily recognized by behavior. She is cautious and cowardly, carefully examines the hive from all sides, tries to find some unprotected gap. Not finding any progress, eats to enter the summer, fearfully approaching the bee-sentry. At the slightest danger, he jumps back and immediately looks for a loophole in the tap […]
Then came late autumn. Became shorter and cooler days. Trees and shrubs discard the yellowed leaves. With the withering of nature, the activity of honey bees gradually decreases. They, like the plant world, are preparing for a long period of winter peace. Only on fine days the bees fly out of the hives in search […]
In a large cluster of bees (and in the winter club of a strong family there are 30-35 thousand insects, and their density is very high) it is quite easy for them to create the heat necessary for life and support it without much effort. The accumulation of insects, densely covered with hairs, is a […]
In addition to the uterus and worker bees, drones live in the bee family – its male part. These are large insects with large, almost full head, complex eyes, powerful wings, developed muscles. They are stronger than females, fly with great speed, quickly navigate in space. No drones perform any work in the nest or […]
Uterus is the main member of the family. It is often called even a queen or queen. It is very different from working bees. A long, round at the end rounded abdomen banded with light strips. The body of the uterus has a dark brown, and sometimes yellow, quite golden tone. It depends on her […]
With the advent of spring, just before our eyes, the bee family grows, grows stronger and stronger. In the midday hours, young bees fly more and more often, flying and noisy in flight, for the first time in their life saw the sun and flowers. It is not by chance that the beekeepers call the […]
The most important means of communication between bees is special movements on the honeycombs, so-called “dances”. Indeed, in these movements, as in a real dance, there is a rhythm, some definite figures, pretty clear turns, runs, circles. Only they are performed without music. The old Russian observant beekeepers called this behavior of insects a dance. […]