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It is known that there is a strong correlation between the life activity of honeybees and the timing of flowering, starting with the flowering of primroses (Tussilago farfara, Salix caprea, Padus racemosa, Taraxacum officinale), when bees build up a family, activity collect pollen and nectar. According to observations for three years, the amount of effective temperatures necessary for flowering of spring honey plants in the Udmurt Republic is 2.2-129.0°C. In the summer the timing of the active growing brood bee colony coincides with abundant blossoming are the major honey plants – forest raspberry, epilobium angustifolium, Melilotus officinalis and white, buckwheat sown small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata). The sum of the effective temperatures for summer honey plants is 661.80°C, which is on average 78^oC lower than in the literature [Kulygin, 1980; 1992]. Phenological observations taking into account the amount of effective temperatures will help beekeepers not only to know in advance the time of the main honey collection, but also to determine the timing for the performance of apiary work. For example, early colony on infertile queens in honey harvesting from Tilia cordata can be effective only if they are formed during the flowering of gardens and yellow acacia and not later than the flowering of rowan. The queen breeding should be made during the flowering of maple, dandelion. Knowledge of the amounts of effective temperatures allows you to predict the timing of the beginning and end of flowering of honey plants, facilitates the planning of many works on the apiary and help beekeepers to plan their farm and earn big profits.

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