“Deiva” ltd. offers to get products brought out from beekeeping products. We offer 100%  beeswax candles of various forms and size as well for daily or special occasions or as wonderful present.

Beekeeping products for your nutriment and health:                                    

• delicious;
• known;
• comfortable for use;
• effective;
• useful.

We are not capable to change many things, but we can improve quality of Your life offering healthy products from nature! "Deiva"ltd. was founded  in 1997. It  preserves  and continues to develop traditions connected with processing of beekeeping products and  introducing market with new products.

Raw materials of  the production are used to be purchased from the beekeepers and farmers of Latvia. "Deiva"ltd. gives priority for production of local producers.  In the course of time stable and trustworthy collaboration relations with them have been formed. We endeavour to purchase raw materiāls from as various districts of Latvia as possible.  In this way we support local producers and in the same time are able to offer our clients  broader assortment of flavour and sort. Our company is proud of wide and varied assortment of production. We pay especially much attention to the quality of our products.

"Deiva" ltd. is aimed to such directions:

• to preserve and to continue increasing the assortment of our production and to form for them a stable place in the market of Latvia;
• to preserve and  to improve collaborating relations with suppliers of raw material;
• to improve the system of quality control  for bringing out the production of higher quality.

• Honey, which can be packed in the vessels starting from 30 g to even 4200 g, individual orders are accepted as well;
• Natural beekeeping products: propolis, pollen, bee bread, royal jelly;
  
• Beekeeping products in honey - supplements: pollen in honey, propolis in honey, royal jelly in honey, bee portion (pollen, propolis, royal jelly in honey).
• We have started series of  products like: aloe in honey, celery in honey, and golden root in honey. Novelty in our production – oranges in honey, kiwi in honey and lemon in honey.

Beekeeping in Latvia

Bees. Latvian local bees are (Apis mellitera mellitera) aboriginal population. Nevertheless, this type actually is of very limited distribution now. A big amount of different south-races queen-bees - Apis mellitera coucasica, Apis mellitera carnica, Apis mellitera pigustica - are brought in Latvia since the end of the nineteenth century, a little more during the thirties of the twentieth century and specially during the sixties till eighties. There are counted up to 150 000 of bee colonies in our State.  

Bee-hive. Latvian standard-hive is more widely distributed type of hives. Prof. P. Rizga is the designer of it. This hive is designed in the earlies thirties of the twentieth century on the basis of Dadant-Blat hive (more distributed before this rime) and frames of it. This hive basically is one-floor, brood chamber consists of 15 selfspacing frames (435 X 300mm). The second and the third block (frames occupies one half from brood body frames in the second and the third block) are put on only in the case of honey harvest for placing of honey. Front and back walls of  the hive are double with packing, side-walls are common, the floor is double with packing. The frames are being covered with doily, than a pillow is put on. The hive is dismountable.

Nectariferous plants. More important of them are:

• osiers, willows (Salix),
• foalfoots (Tussilagofarfaru),
• dandelions (Tanaxacum officinale),
• orchards,
• buchthorns (FrangtHa ohms),
• raspberries (Rubus idacus),
 meadows - more distributed in them are:  

-clovers (Trifolium repens. Trifolium hibridum),

-meaddow-sweets (Filipendula),

-heath. (Calluna vulgaris).

Often honey is harvested (from plantlouses, which carry out parasitism on leafs of maples and others broad-leaf plants). The average harvest of honey is 10 to 20 kg/colony, but in the years of bad harvest, (such years aren't rare in Latvia) - 5 till 8 kg/colony.

Climate. The first fly of bees usually is in the middle of March. It is followed by cool and unfavourable April for bee development. Spring development of bee colonies begins only with blooming of osiers - at the end of April. Nevertheless, it can be certainly called as such, when dandelions, maples and orchards burst into blossom - the first decade of May. The culmination at the colony development is about June the 10^th when the constant, mild summer weather sets in and raspberries blossom out. At the second part of August nectareferous plants finish to be in bloom and bees are being prepared for winter-time. It is accepted to finish autumn feeding up of bees until September, the 20^th. The first serious frosts set in at the end of October and soon after that or at the first part of the November colonies roll up oneself into a ball and begin its winter quiet period, which go on for about 5-6 months.

Apiarists. About one third part of bee colonies are in the hands of professional beekeepers. The amount of  the professional apiaries on a world scale is very small - at an average 120 to 150 bee colonies. In the nearest future, it seems, that the number of them will decrease, but number of colonies in apiaries will increase. It is connected with the fact, that Latvia after recovering independence, participates in the market economy.

It is necessary to mark out high professional level of beekeepers. Latvian beekeepers are able to produce all six beekeeping products. Besides beekeeping products, they cultivate queen-bees for own needs and lead out bee colonies to pollinate agricultural cultivated plants.