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Russian bees:
Health of bees
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Lye increases the alkaline reaction in a bee’s organism. It helps to prevent and fight bee diseases. Bees have two main enemies: these are the deadly nosomitosis and rottenness. Both can be cured by using lye.
The usual way of treating nosomitosis is with fumagillin. Fumagillin hampers the development of a nosema and prolongs the life of a bee. But the infected bee continues to be sick, only at a slower rate. Such a bee becomes defective and not very useful for work outside or inside the hive. It is especially unsuitable for breeding or taking care of brood. Fumagillin does not cure nosomitosis, it only hides the symptoms. The illness remains inside the bee. Upon termination of fumagillin treatment, the nosomitosis can return with much greater force. Using lye is a natural and more effective way of treating this disease. A nosema intensively develops in a mildly alkaline environment of bee bowels. Sick bees, whose organisms are infected by a nosema, rapidly become ill. Such bees quickly die and the nosema, not having had time to leave, remains inside the bowels of bees lost to famine. The sick bees, losing mobility within 1 - 3 days, fall to the bottom of a hive half alive. It is necessary to pick them up and burn them as soon as possible to prevent a spreading of the disease. Alkalinity helps a colony to quickly release sick bees by itself and to keep only healthy bees. Alkalinity also makes the bowels of bees resistant to nosema.
Increasing the alkaline reaction in a bee’s body also cures rottenness. The source of the disease perishes in bees and larvae whose bowels have alkaline reactions. This influences not only the source of the disease, but also increases the protective properties of a bee organism . The bee’s digestive juices also strengthen the clearing role of an alkaline medium. Using lye at an apiary is the best prevention and treatment for this deadly bee decease.
Apparently the alkaline medium is gradually spent on various vital processes in the organism of a bee, together with an updating of a potassium in various parts of the body of this insect. Bees with balanced alkaline reactions in their organism are usually stronger and disease free.
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