Propolis (beer glue) - the substance of greenish or brown colour sometimes having a reddish or yellowish shade. At storage in cold weather it becomes firm, and in warm becomes soft and sticky. The propolis smell depends on vegetative pitches, essence and the wax, entering into its structure. Vegetative pitches in propolis of 50-55%, wax about 30%, essence about 10%. Besides, its structure includes various microcells.

Bees use propolis for zadelyvanija cracks in a beehive and reduction letka. It bees envelop corpses of the mice killed by them at hit of rodents in beehives. Decomposition of corpses thus do not occur,

The Basic advantage of propolis - its high antimicrobic action. In this connection it finds more and more wide application in medicine for lechenijakozhnyh and tubercular diseases. Widespread propolis and in veterinary science.

Long storage propolis slightly changes its chemical compound, not breaking antimicrobic properties. Collect propolis during survey of beer families, scratching out it from walls of beehives, bruskov frameworks, potolochin and holstikov. Store propolis in a dark premise.

Perga represents the pollen of various plants collected and processed by bees. Perga - the important albuminous forage, its lack causes infringement of ability to live of a beer family. Pergu make on apiaries. Honeycombs with pergoj select from beehives in the summer for storage, and then put to their bees in the spring.

On apiaries collect also pollen. For this purpose serve pyltseuloviteli, let out by factories. Establish pyltseulovitel on priletnoj to a beehive board. Passing through it, bees give all pollen brought by them which gathers in special koryttse. Applying pyltseuloviteli on an apiary during the summer period, it is possible to prepare for some days a significant amount of pollen without any damage for bees.

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