Already the autumn is coming, the bees know it better than us. They start being protesting, as children when they are tired, and it begins the time for sealing the beehive, because the cold at night starts being obvious, and the wind that in summer is a soft breeze, now looks like a knife that cuts, so it is necessary to close doors and windows as possible.
The bees can foresee this problem, how else could it be if they have been in the Hearth 42 millions of years. The Nature provides, in the yolks or barks of the plants, a few resinous secretions, which the bees gather, mix and re-elaborate, up to turn them into a kind of moldeable clay that is the propolis. In this way the mixture is used by them to seal, in a way more than hygienic, the beehive, since the propolis is a natural antibiotic with healing properties, antinflamatory, antitumoral, antioxidant, antiviral, antibacterial, inmunoestimulant, antiparasitic and many others.
It is gathered by a relatively small number of specialized workers from the beginning of the season, but more intensivelly in autumn. These substances are transported to the beehive to be used in the entrance, as a doormat on whom all the bees are forced to pass through, also in the coating of the beehive, protecting and waterproofing the wood, refilling holes and hardening the wood alveoli.
With the propolis they cover, even the bodies of the “opportunists” who come into the beehive (as mice, beetles and others) that for their size is impossible to get rid off by the bees. Embalmed in propolis, they remained mummified without the danger of infesting. The verified bactericidal characteristics of the propolisguarantee the asepsis and protect the whole beehive.
With the propolis they cover, even the bodies of the “opportunists” who come into the beehive (as mice, beetles and others) that for their size is impossible to get rid off by the bees. Embalmed in propolis, they remained mummified without the danger of infesting. The verified bactericidal characteristics of the propolisguarantee the asepsis and protect the whole beehive.
As bees elaborate it for us, we invite you to take advantage of all the virtuosity aspects propolis has to improve your health.
