The content of bees in hives-loungers
The content of bees in hives-loungers
Many of the older generation of beekeepers containBees in large-volume hives - sunbeds, achieving good results. In the proposed article, beekeepers can get acquainted with one of the old methods of keeping bees, this can help in practical work.
The method provides for the maintenance of bees in hives - sunbeds, adapted for the maintenance of each family with two umbrellas - assistants.
In the middle of the hive against the main worker of the vigil contain a strong family, and on both sides of it - along a line.
To exclude cases of wandering bees, the frontThe walls of the hives are desirable to be painted in different colors. Branch offices are populated with bees 30-35 days before the beginning of the main bribe. Do this. Of the fetal uterus, rejected for the purpose of replacement, but still able to work, form the layers. Alternately take out each frame from the nest and shake the bees from it equally in both departments, carefully watching to not shake off the uterus together with the bees. Hundreds with brood immediately return to the nest, and some frames with honey are placed in the layers. From the frame on which the uterus was, the bees do not shake.
After this procedure, the nests of the maternal family and the layers are closed and opened with emergency flasks in the side walls, enabling the flying bees to exit through them.
After 3-4 hours, when the meeting of the old bees is over, proceed to distribute the layers of fetal cells in the cells. Simultaneously, the nests of the layers are supplemented with frames of land and honey, pergolas and water.
In the evening, when the family calms down, the queen is released, and by the end of the first day the blind partitions are replaced by a dividing grid, the side flaps are closed.
Simultaneous work of three queens in one hive,a sharp increase in the volume of the nest of the maternal family and the years of bees in the general summer are factors that have a positive effect on its growth and activity and negatively on the manifestation of the instinct of swarming.
With the onset of a major bribe, not strong, butprolonged, the queen-assistants are imprisoned and placed in the middle streets of the nest. This operation is of great importance, since only thanks to her, bees do not usually build fistula cells within 8 days. At the end of this period, with the beginning of the honey collection, the cells with the uterus and the dividing lattices are removed, and a shop with a set of thickened honeycombs is simultaneously placed on the hive. The family, prepared in this way, meets the main bribe with huge flight reserves and a large number of printed brood and therefore honey collects much more of those that were kept without the help of the queens.
