In the nest of the family, from which the swarm came out, there are always a lot of good mature swarm queen. Bees grow queens for their new families – swarms. Moreover, they are taken out with a large margin, as if just in case. Most bee queen cells do not use. If, after the […]
On a summer clear day, bees can be watched with unflagging interest from morning till night, without departing from the hive. Look at how hard they work on flowers, collecting food, how they hurriedly leave their nest and come back loaded with prey. The beehive seemed to be boiling. It’s time for the main honey […]
If the season has developed unsuccessfully and the bees do not even stock up their food for the winter, they have to feed sugar syrup. However, it is better to give them honey. Experienced beekeepers in this case always keep it in reserve. But bees can live on sugar forage. The syrup is prepared as […]
An extremely important role in the life of honey bees is played by the so-called chemical language – odors. This is the oldest and most perfect way to communicate insects. Their nest is full of aromatic substances. Nectar and pollen of different plants, fresh honey, propolis of birch, poplar, aspen, chestnut, wax, spirit spirit of […]
With each passing day new honey plants grow. Bees find more and more nectar for themselves. Tens of thousands of them are busy at this time pollen extraction. In the nest appear oblong-oval lumps of pollen of various colors: bright yellow, dark brown, gray, light blue, as pitch black. Hence, many of the plant-blossom plants […]
If you need to withdraw a lot of queens, use a special inoculum. This is the same nesting frame with two reinforced bars in it. Horizontally located bars divide the frame into 3 equal parts. The width of the bars is 25 mm. From the plywood or a thin board cut into squares – cartridges […]
As with any specialist, the beekeeper has his own tools, his own special equipment. Perhaps the most necessary and indispensable tool of the beekeeper is a beekeeping chisel. Fig. 20. Beekeeping chisel. Without it, you can not separate the housing from the housing, raise the ceiling of the hive, move the honeycombs apart, or remove […]
Go closer to the hive, and you will hear the noise of the family, deaf, even, unison. It is similar to the sound of boiling. It is the sound of everyday bee labor. After all, the bees are in the nest in constant movement and work, not knowing the day and night, in any weather. […]
Of all the melliferous plants that grow in our country, there is no equal lime. From a hectare of lime forest, you can collect a ton of honey. One century old, a century-old tree, growing in a well-lit place, can distinguish five buckets of nectar for one bloom! Lipu by merit is called the queen […]
Many, of course, saw the bees drinking water at the wells, near the springs, on the warmers by the rivers and ponds. Especially a lot of them are at the watering place in the spring or on hot days in the summer. In fact, they satisfy their need for water by eating honey, in which […]