Currently in our country, when moving bees to a distant distance, it is often used to transfer bees with brood and without it in deaf dark boxes (without ventilation). Bees in such boxes during transportation remain calm. To send bees without brood, make a box on one frame, and with brood – on 4 or […]
Equipment: boxes for transferring frames, uterine cells, hives of various systems, caps for isolation of queens, hacksaw, plane, hammers, mites, pillows, insert boards. Materials: thin plywood, wooden bars, small nails, canvases. Drawing up a calendar plan for the withdrawal of queens. Drawing up a plan for the withdrawal of queens is usually divided into three […]
To work with bees was productive, you must properly handle them. First of all, we should set ourselves the rule – never to disturb the bees in vain, for the sake of simple curiosity. When carrying out more complex works, it is necessary to plan in advance what bees must be made and prepare the […]
To remove the swarm, I use a simple and convenient device. It consists of a stand and a set of metal tubes. To the length of pipe 2, three supports 1 are welded from the corners of 20X20 mm, connected with each other by the same angle. In the pipe there is a threaded hole […]
About the main bribe. The time when the largest number of honey-plants blooming, giving bees abundant prey to nectar, is called the main bribe. The duration and abundance of the bribe depends on many factors: the number and diversity of the honey plants, weather conditions, soil moisture, etc. The bribe offensive can be determined by […]
Sixteen-frame hives I make myself with some constructive changes. The bottom made detachable. It enters the quarter of the back wall and is attached to it on the window hinges 5. The side walls 2 of the hive are supported by the bars 1. The front 8 is on the bottom 3. The flying board […]
Unfounded families must be transplanted into a clean hive on clean honeycombs, feed and insulate the nest. Of the stained frames, only those transferred to a new hive, which have bee brood. In this case, you need to prune the honeycomb before brood, frame scrape with a knife and wipe with a cloth soaked in […]
Only strong bee colonies are biologically full and most productive in honey and wax. They are always ready to use any, even short-term bribes. Therefore, the methods of taking care of bees and their contents should be directed primarily at ensuring that all families of the apiary are strong. Among the conditions that contribute to […]
After the bee family grows stronger, will renew the nest, fill the honeycomb with brood, honey and perga, it directs its worries to the creation of a new family. On the ninth day after the laying of eggs, the first swarm emerges into the queen cells. Spinning for a while over the hives, insects in […]
In a warm time, not having a prey in the field, bees make attempts to profit from other bee colonies. In such cases, the bees swirl around other hives and try somewhere through the gap, unnoticed by the bees guarding the chutes, to get inside the hive, and sometimes they climb straight into the chute. […]