Celandine Bee
Celandine Bee: treatment and processing.
Celandine – bur'yan, which grows in vacant lots and overgrown gardens.
This plant beekeepers have long used for treatment of hives.
Bee celandine helps get rid of varoatozu, foul brood and mites.
At the same time improving the health and strength of the family. It is faster growing and stronger.
Celandine Bee: treatment
Grass used in beekeeping in the form of infusions and decoctions. Often dried raw material is spread inside the hive.
Crude drug beginning to the end of June and continue the whole of July.
For this plant is cut and dried in the shade.
Allowed to enter the plant layer thickness 5 cm and dried in the attic.
If weeds during drying darkened, it should be discarded, it is not suitable for further use.
When processing families, patients and varroatozom mite, prepared infusion.
For this 2000 ml of boiling water is removed from the heat and pour into it 100 g dry material.
Need container cover and leave 25 minutes. Then the broth is ready.
He recruited a sprayer and handle all streets. The walls and floor also rubbed broth.
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Treatment of foul brood bees celandine
Often enough to eliminate foul brood processing saponins and other drugs.
Many beekeepers use proven methods – celandine tincture.
To this end, after the last evacuation of honey in late August or September, the empty frame is taken.
Then brood frame is completely sprayed streets herb broth.
If the apiary little family, You can use the sprayer "Rosinka".
For large scale apiary using pneumatic sprayer.
The treatment should be done in a day, ie 7 days is 3-4 spraying.
The solution thus should be warm. Treatment of bees held in the evening after fumigation nest chimney.
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Treatment of celandine bees in April
A spring after revision. This beekeeper has reviewed all nests, and reduced their uteplyv.
It is not necessary to conduct an audit and processing in one day. Treatment of bees held in the evening.
Manual processing hive:
- fill 100 g grass 2500 ml of water and leave to simmer;
- mixture should boil 25 minutes;
- The solution is cooled to 35 ° C and treated with all the streets, bottom and walls of the hive.
Treatment of bees held several times a week. Try not to prepare a concentrated solution, since insects may die.
Usually after handling bees and independently activated cells purified from rot and make all the debris from the hive.
This is due to the presence of celandine biologically active ingredients and essential oils.