Fecha de publicación:
26/08/2020
Fuente: WIPO "beekeeper"
This invention discloses a method of feeding honey bees (Apis mellifera) with natural mixtures including additives of medical plants. Feeding mixture is made of natural ingredients, such as honey, water and the following plants: great nettle, black currant, sea buckthorn, single-seed hawthorn, lemon, black currant berries, mistletoe, and cucumber. The invention describes production of the feeding mixtures with such plant additives, and the embodiments of purposeful feeding the honey bees with said mixtures. The plants used in the present invention have scientifically proven composition and nutritional, medicinal and healing properties for bees and also for people, so feeding bees with mixtures containing these additives and selecting a nutritional and maintenance pattern results in different and compatible cultural beekeeping results, such as complete feeding of bee colonies, their health maintenance, disease prevention (including varroatosis), as well as obtaining selectively modified honey with pre-selected constituents, and honey having intended healing properties and uses.