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From the bee's biography

"A bee - an old companion of a man. He has watched her beside for thousands of years and therefore has decided that he knows everything about her. more



Camp for beginners in beekeeping

From July to September on the basis of wild hive holding of the "Tentorium Apicompany" BEARS’ GLADE there were 4 shifts of the camp. A total of 25 persons from various regions of Russia were learning the skills of the beekeeping craft. more



Problems of Perm Territory’s A. m. mellifera

Features of the wing venation are traditionally used by entomologists for taxonomy. Morphometry of a honey bee has been developed since the first half of the last century by two schools: the Soviet (V. Alpatovs) school and the German (A. Goetz, F. Ruttner) school, with some differences, including the definition of cubital index. Foreign researchers use the ratio of proximal (nearest to the body) segment of the main stem of the third cubital cell to distal (distant from the body) segment (Picture 1), our country adopted the opposite attitude, expressed as a percentage. more



WSBF Members

The Address of Mr Rail Khismatullin, WSBF President. more



Russian Scientists Alarm Large-Scale Bees’ Extinction Abroad and Situation in Russia

The Russian Research Institute of Experimental Animal Health hosted a seminar organized by the Animal Health and Bees’ Pathology Department of the Russian Agricultural Academy on May 3, 2007. The seminar featured a number of leading experts and researchers of the Russian Research Institute of Experimental Animal Health, as well as representatives of other research institutes, beekeeping experts and journalists. The agenda included an issue of bees’ disappearance in the USA and Europe. Below are the main points of the discussions. more



Northern Bees

We know a lot about beekeeping products: honey, propolis, bee bread, and royal jelly. What do we know about bees that make these products? more



Hollow Log Beekeeping Traditions

Honeybees preceded humans on earth by millions of years. The dark forest bee spread over the Urals and the Cis-Ural region in the early postglacial times. Primeval humans who inhabited forests used to gather and eat the honey and honeycombs of wild bees. They searched for bee nests in tree hollows and extracted the discovered honey. The first records of wild honey hunters can be found in cave drawings that date back to over a dozen thousand years ago. Honey hunting images were discovered in Spain, the Southern Urals, Egypt, India, Italy and Germany. Early humans used to hunt for honey everywhere. It was staple food for hunters and gatherers of the Stone Age. more



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