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Bees bring pollen bread to the hive, store in honeycomb cells, compact it with head and pour with honey. During the long-term storage in the cells, pollen is subjected to lactic fermentation with the formation of lactic acid, which protects the pollen from spoilage. Thus, after a complex enzymatic process, pollen and honey form bee bread.

A wax moth ( bee moth) is a night butterfly. At night, it flies into a beehive and settles in a place where it lays a large number of eggs. Larvae are dangerous to the entire hive. At first, they eat honey and bee bread, but very soon they grow up and eat wax.

Bee venom is widely used today for medicinal purposes and for its unique properties is recognized as a source of longevity. In folk medicine it was called a "natural healer".

Cotton honey, known as "white honey", is highly valued for its medicinal properties. Today it is among the best and rare varieties. This honey is obtained from cotton. The place of nectar collection is Central Asia, particularly Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. Its main distinguishing feature is the vegetable oil content and high caloric value.

Bees live in a swarm, which consists of a queen, drones and working bees. Queen and working bees, female, are the main ones in the swarm. Drones are male. Each individual performs its function. The basis of the swarm is the queen; the duration of its life is up to 5 years. She lays eggs. Drones live very little, after insemination of the queen, they can not live. Working bees live about 2 months in summer and up to 8 months in winter. Swarm is always updated. Dead bees on properties and composition are unique.

Drone milk (homogenate) is produced by pressing the brood of bee drones. It is a transparent, thick mass, slightly viscous, light yellow and with a special sweet and sour taste and smell. Its composition is similar to royal jelly by 50%. Homogenate of drone larvae has a health and rejuvenating effect. It contains hormones, natural testosterones, extradiol and progesterone.

Not every day you can hear about honey from Ferula, asafetida (Ferula assafoetlda L.). This is one of the rare and most useful types of honey and has unusually valuable healing properties. And all thanks to the honey plant, which is not only unique, but even endowed with almost magical properties.

In beekeepers interviews, "What sort of honey is the rarest and exclusive?" The answer was unanimous: "Undoubtedly, Flower Honey!" Early spring nectar is collected by bees in mid-May-early June. The period of the heyday of oak, alder, maple, coltsfoot, willow, bird cherry, clover, dandelion, and other plants.

Honey from a camel thorn is considered a rare royal variety and very few people know about its true healing properties. Such honey is obtained from flowers of camel's thorn (Jantak) which grows mainly in the regions of Central and Minor Asia in the deserts of Kara Kum and Kyzyl Kum. Despite the fact that the plant of camel thorn has not particularly attractive look, its medicinal properties are striking.

Honey in honeycombs (comb honey) is honey, sealed in honeycombs. Cells are covered with wax lids, so honey is considered sterile. If you follow the rules of storage, the honey inside is liquid, because propolis has the properties of a preservative. Such characteristics as color, taste and smell vary depending on the plants from which the bees collected pollen and nectar. Comb honey is considered the most useful, it retains all the enzymes and nutrients.

Honeycomb capping is the upper part or "cap" of sealed honeycombs, consisting of wax, secretion of salivary glands, enzymes, pollen, royal jelly and propolis, which are an indicator of the quality of honey, its ripeness. Color of honeycomb capping differs depending on the weather, the time of year, as well as the type of bees.

Of all the varieties of honey, the most useful and popular is mountain honey. This product is environmentally friendly, as its nectar is collected in the foothills and at the foot of the mountains, and this in turn is the main confirmation of quality natural honey. About 50 different herbs are used as honey- plants for this kind of honey.

Propolis is a substance of brown color (can vary from yellow to brown with different shades), which has a pleasant peculiar odor, sticky and resinous in consistency. Propolis is produced by bees. They close the gaps in the hive, which allows to keep the warmth, disinfect cells and wrap the objects and even small rodents falling into the hive.

Royal jelly considered a valuable product of beekeeping, and it costs more expensive than honey.Royal jelly is the secretion of allotrophic glands of young bees. Bees feed larvae and their queen with it. Royal jelly in consistence is creamy mass, opaque, milky white. It tastes sourish, it smells like honey.

Steppe honey refers to varieties of polyfloral honey. It is also known as feral (meadow), polyfloral honey. Why it is called "steppe». The fact is that the nectar of this product is collected from different plants of the steppe during their flowering period. It is usually late May to early June.