Types of propolis

Related posts:

1. Reproduction of bee colonies Natural swarming of bees. In natural conditions, the increase in the number of families occurs by digestion. Swarming is a manifestation of the instinct of reproduction of a bee family. The swarming is as follows....
2. Wax Economic importance of wax The value of beeswax for the national economy is extremely large. Thanks to a number of valuable properties, beeswax is the most important raw material for the socialist industry, and is...
3. Hibernation of bees Properly organized bee hibernation is one of the most important tasks in beekeeping. A good winter is considered to be a wintering, in which not only there is no escape of bee colonies or corn...
4. Magic Propolis The beneficial effects of bee products on our organism are diverse. But the main thing, perhaps, is that they neutralize the pathogens – bacteria, viruses, fungi or their toxins, cleanse the body of excess unnecessary...
5. Diseases of adult bees The most common diseases of adult bees are caused by parasites; most pathogens of these diseases have microscopic dimensions (for example, the causative agent of nosematosis), but there are also visible by a simple eye...
6. Soy flour replaces penguin For a long time already beekeepers noticed that in the absence of pollen in nature, bees willingly collect and carry flour in beehives (in the form of patches), visiting mills, barns, warehouses and other premises....
7. The eyes of the bees and their ability to see If the reader ever had breakfast at a village in the air, there is honey, then probably the bees attracted by the honey smell were also on the table. In this case, you can always...
8. Work on an apiary at the end of a bribe and making nests for a winter Before the end of the honey collection, it is necessary to immediately begin to organize the hives and prevent the theft of bees, which can occur when the bribe breaks. Measures against the attack of...
9. Feeding of a bee family Among animals, as well as among people, there are sophisticated gourmands. But people have ample opportunities to satisfy their whims, whereas in animals nature has more strictly defined to each species what it can eat...
10. How do bees talk to each other? The previous chapters talked about training, which allows you to get some data about the feelings of bees. The prerequisite for such experiments is that the bees we want to train come to our experimental...
11. Digestion of pollen by bees Bees feed on pollen unevenly throughout life. In the early days. after leaving the cell, the bee eats a lot, which causes the midgut to increase greatly: the intestine volume from 6.7 mm3 increases to...
12. Internal structure of the bee’s body Muscles. The bee can produce a variety of movements: crawl, fly, bend the abdomen and sting, clean the antennae, perform various kinds of work – collect nectar and pollen, build honeycombs, etc. In addition, the...
13. Keeping the bees in working order In the bee families exhibited in January in the hothouse, a lot of broods appear in a week. To grow it you need honey, perga and water. In search of food, bees come into active...
14. Propolis treatment Coryza. Grind 20 grams of ground propolis (in a porcelain mortar) with a small amount of butter, add sunflower oil to a total mass of 100 g. Mix well. Soak small cotton swabs and put...
15. Schemes of pollen catchers Receiving pollen from plants or pergs from honeycombs is a very laborious process. You can get the pollen already collected by bees, by selecting their updates from the tap when returning to the hive. Practical...
16. Feed preparation It is known that bees prepare their own food, the surpluses of which are used by man. In greenhouses there is a glut of bee pasture by bees. In addition, we are forcing bees already...
17. Protection of bees from poisoning To obtain sustainable high yields of hothouse crops, pest and plant diseases are controlled using pesticides. Pesticides used in greenhouses are classified by action: – on contact – cause the death of insects when they...
18. Sense of smell and taste in bees A person likes to talk about his “five senses,” although science has long established that, in addition to a sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, there are also some other feelings that correspond...
19. Feeding bees with protein substances The natural, natural protein food for bees is pollen and perg. In greenhouses, bee colonies often lack protein food. In the literature there are many recipes for feeding bees to liquid and condensed honey –...
20. Properties of propolis Propolis (from Greek words: pro-front and polis-city) plays an important role in the life of the bee family. They are reduced by the bees through the hive into the hive. Fig. 12. An open beehive...
21. Collection of nectar and pollen Bees collect nectar and flower pollen from the flowers of plants. Nectar is distinguished by special glands of plants – nectaries. After processing with a bee, it becomes honey. Bees can collect other sweet substances....
22. Pollen grains in honey In addition to the liquid phase, honey is always found in microscopic solid particles – pollen grains, which, despite cleaning in honey cind, get into honey together with nectar. Since each plant species has its...
23. Feeding base of beekeeping and measures to expand and improve it For successful development and high productivity of beekeeping, as well as any branch of animal husbandry, a powerful and stable fodder base is necessary. The feeding base of beekeeping is honey plants of field crop...
24. Main properties of honey The color of honey depends to the greatest extent on what plants honey comes from. Thus, honey from white acacia, linden, sweet clover, alfalfa and clover is light in color, from almost white to pale...
25. Honey food product The value of honey as a food and medicinal product. Honey is known as a food product for a very long time. Excellent taste qualities of honey are perfectly combined with its high nutritional content...
26. Transportation of bees The work begins with the development of a calendar plan for the use of bees for pollination of crops. Then they get acquainted with the basic methods of using bees on pollination of plants, taking...
27. 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...
28. Life of a bee family In order to properly and effectively manage the life and activities of bee colonies in order to increase their productivity and maximize the use of bees for pollinating many crops, the beekeeper must know not...
29. External structure of the bee’s body Outer cover. Bees, like all insects, do not have an internal bone skeleton, which in vertebrate animals represents the basis and support of the whole body. Instead of the internal skeleton, bees have a hard...
30. Medical properties of propolis Propolis has high antimicrobial properties, therefore it is widely used in medicine and veterinary medicine. In particular, it detects antifungal, antiviral, anti-inflammatory activity, heals wounds, stimulates regeneration of tissues, raises the body’s reactivity, delays seed...
31. Nervous system, sense organs and behavior of bees Every living organism exists in changing environmental conditions and is able to adapt to these conditions. The existence of an organism without its interaction with the external environment is impossible. A living organism is capable...
32. Providing bees with water Bees eat liquid food, and the water available in honey completely satisfies their need, until they perform no work (in autumn, in winter). However, during the growing of larvae, the need for water increases. If...
33. Propolis production In addition to nectar and pollen, bees are collected from plants (mainly from the kidneys), and resinous substances, which are necessary for the bees produced by bees (bee glue). The main constituent of propolis is...
34. Species and breeds of bees Biological science, creatively developed by scientists, teaches that the entire animal and plant world, all living nature consists of separate groups of animals and plants, called species. There are many similarities between close species, which...
35. Flower Pollen and Perga Each plant has pollen grains of a certain shape (spherical, triangular, polyhedral), different in color (from white to dark brown), a size that in different plants is 0.01 to 0.05 mm in diameter. Plants form...
36. Pollen in folk medicine Two famous scientists informed the French Academy that clinical observations showed a positive therapeutic effect from the use of flower pollen in the treatment of sick children with anemia (anemia); due to the pollen, the...
37. Chemical composition of honey Bees are adapted to highly specialized food. From nectar and pollen, they receive all the substances they need to reproduce, grow, develop and perform numerous works. Honey is a product of bee processing of plant...
38. Collection of honey and pollen in the forests (forest meadows) The common walnut is a shrub up to 7 m in height, with simple regular oval sheets. Stamen flowers in dangling cylindrical earrings, without perianth, with four split stamens. Common hazel throughout the territory. Hazel...
39. Beef feeding for the winter When replenishing fodder reserves for the winter, and when replacing a portion of honey with sugar, time and quantity of sugar fed, the concentration of syrup and the addition of substances that improve the hibernation...
40. 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)...