Behavior of bees-thieves
The bee-thief can be easily recognized by behavior. She is cautious and cowardly, carefully examines the hive from all sides, tries to find some unprotected gap. Not finding any progress, eats to enter the summer, fearfully approaching the bee-sentry. At the slightest danger, he jumps back and immediately looks for a loophole in the tap hole again. Yes, bee-thieves have their ponorings, their special habits. And pickers, as usual, continue to calmly fly out and fly.
If the guard bees catch the thief and she will not manage to escape, they stab the prisoner and she, paralyzed with poison, immediately dies. And if the thief gets into the hive and returns home with the stolen honey, she will send her sisters to this easy prey. In less than a few minutes, as already dozens of bees will aggressively attack a foreign beehive. If the protection of the nest can not give proper resistance, the theft will take a mass character.
The thieves fly out of their nests early in the morning, with dawn, and continue to pump honey until late in the evening. Sometimes they do not even have time to return and spend the night in a strange hive. Heavily laden, they barely rise into the air. The struggle is now being carried inside the dwelling. During the battle, the uterus usually dies. Orphaned bees cease to resist. The survivors submit to the will of the winners. They recruit their honey and carry it into the nest of enemies. There they remain. The family ceases to exist.
But this does not stop the theft. It, like a fire, spreads to other families. Excited by the luck of the robber, they attack the neighboring beehives. And even if they are given worthy resistance and they can not penetrate into other people’s nests, thousands of bees are killed in these battles. Bee-stealing, among other things, promotes the spread of diseases, often very dangerous. The stealing families are more often infected.
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Well, and if the embezzlement of the family has begun, then it is necessary to severely shorten the leaflet, before the passage of 1-2 bees, from the sprayer repeatedly pour water on all the bees that are on the front wall of the hive. To save the family, the hive is often taken to the cold room of the day at 2-3, and in its place to put an empty with 2-3 honeycombs, preferably with the remains of Perga. The stealing bees will be misleading. After making sure that the hive is plundered, they will gradually stop the theft. The retired family is returned to the place.
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