Experience of using stimulating feeding for honey bees "BiHit" in the Moscow region and the Republic of Crimea

Unfavorable environmental factors: pesticides, chemicals, poor nutrition of bee colonies lead to a decrease in the bee's immune defense. Currently, there is a continuous search for biologically active substances that stimulate the vital activity of bees and increase the egg-laying of queens. Analysis of scientific sources data has shown high efficiency for stimulating the viability and increasing the productivity of bees of such biologically active additives as chitosan and its derivatives, probiotic strains of bacteria Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus Lichineformis, as well as sources of vital amino acids. The experience accumulated to date in the use of chitosan and its derivatives in veterinary medicine makes it possible to classify chitosan as an effective adaptogen with multifunctional properties capable of providing the body's resistance to numerous adverse environmental factors and pathogens of various diseases. Due to the excess positive charge, chitosan acquires the properties of a highly active anionite. It binds and firmly holds ions of various heavy metals, radioactive isotopes, toxic elements with their subsequent removal from the body of animals, including bees. Chitosan and its derivatives have high antibacterial, sorption, fungicidal, antiviral activity, being a natural biocompatible product that is biodegradable to CO2 and H2O and does not pollute the environment. To stimulate the vital activity of bees and increase the egg-laying of queens, stimulating protein supplements are needed to cover the lack of vital amino acids, probiotic preparations that improve the microbiocenosis of the intestines of bees, sugar syrup. Earlier, at the preliminary stage of research, we developed a recipe for stimulating feeding for bees "BiChit", which includes low molecular weight chitosan, chitosan succinate, dry bacterial mass of Bacillus subtilis VKM B-2716D and Bacillus licheniformis VKM B-2717D, lactose-free edible glucose hydrolyzate, lactose-free whey. In this work, the influence of the multifunctional stimulating feeding "BiHit" on the economically useful traits of bee colonies based on private apiaries in the Moscow region and the Republic of Crimea has been studied. Studies have shown a positive effect of feeding on family strength, brood and honey production.