Category: The bees

Propolis is a resinous substance produced during the activity of bees. This product, like honey, is made on the basis of plant elements. It has a number of useful qualities, due to which it has found wide application in medicine. What is propolis and what is the origin of the product?...

For every honey collection season to be successful, proper preparation of bees for wintering is necessary. Experienced beekeepers are guided by this wisdom. But what should a beginner beekeeper do? To get started, get acquainted with the features of bee wintering, study their winter diet and follow the tips of more experienced...

A honeycomb is a wax structure built by bees for several purposes. Honeycombs are stored in honeycombs, offspring are raised and the bees themselves live. They have the shape of hexagonal prismatic cells, most of whose faces are adjacent to the same cells. In size...

The educator family is a bee family that provides feeding of uterine larvae during artificial breeding of uterus. The family-educator must be strong, which is ensured by its correct formation. This process is carried out according to the rules, taking into account a number of features. Form a caregiver family...

Ukraine is the leader in honey production in Europe, and this is not surprising: beekeeping is one of the most developed agricultural sectors. Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Nikolaev and Khmelnitsky regions account for more than 100 thousand bee families each. In Ukraine...

A honey seal or zabrus are the so-called “caps” with which insects seal honeycombs. The appearance of a kind of cork indicates that honey is ripe and can be collected. So why is zabrus so useful? Why is it considered one of the most valuable beekeeping products? About useful...

The honey decrystallizer is a special device that ensures that crystallized honey returns to its liquid state. Such equipment works according to a certain principle and is designed in a special way. It can be bought ready-made or made independently. Decrystallization Equipment...

Beekeeping involves a lot of subtleties. One of them is catching bee swarms, with the help of which several goals are achieved at once. Traps are used for this process. It is important to correctly create, place and remove them. Catching bee swarms has certain advantages. Why catch bees...

Bee theft is a fairly common problem. Beekeepers need to carefully monitor the apiary, especially in spring and autumn, when bees have nowhere to get honey from. Most often, this problem concerns young bezelless families that lack an organized nest structure....

Printed brood is also called indoor, as opposed to open brood. Each beekeeper needs to familiarize himself with the maturity of the printed brood, as well as understand how to properly spit out the bee colonies. What is print brood? Printed brood is called pupae and larvae of bees...