Viktoriya Ostanina

Hi! My name is Viktoriya. I am 20- year experienced beekeeper.

Assemble beehives, using hand tools.

Arrange with sellers for purchases of honeybee colonies.

Insert honeycomb of bees into beehive or induct wild swarming bees into hive of 

Prepared honeycomb frames.

Place screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees and set hive in orchard, 

Clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen.

Force bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad 

Over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycombs.

Scrape out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds

And mice.

Collect royal jelly from queen bee cells for sale as base for cosmetics and as 

Health food.

Destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming.

Burn hive of diseased bee colony or sterilize hive, using caustic soda solution.

Uncap harvested honeycombs and extract honey.

Arrange with buyers for sale of honey.

Cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale.

Ryazan agroecological university in Russia