To produce a small number of queens, the beekeeper, who has little experience in this direction, can use a very simple method. From a strong and productive family, the uterus and the open brood are removed for a while. It is temporarily placed in a small batch, which is produced in the process of the […]
There are many types of bee marks output. Each beekeeper prefers this or that type of withdrawal depending on what he has a professional background, working conditions, and what he needs the number of queens. At the heart of some methods lies the transfer of one-day larvae from their cells into artificial bowls. But such […]
It is often possible to learn from literary sources and from practitioners that when selecting the queens during the main honey crop, this is negatively indicated on the ability and productivity of the bees. I was convinced: the working capacity of bee colonies without queens is reduced, but not their productivity, i. e. amount of […]
Postage of the queens by mail is made in special cells that have 2 compartments: one for bees and a uterus and the second for a smaller one – forage. The stern compartment of the cage is covered with a thin layer of wax before laying the feed into it, which protects the feed from […]
Artificial insemination of the uterus in magazines of beekeepers rises quite rarely. There are too few people who want to know the details of this case, since they are completely convinced of the hopelessness, complexity and uselessness (the interest to this topic in the territory of Russia at the moment is quite large.). During the […]
The uterus in the bee-family occupies a prominent place. She is not only a mother here. Its pheromones are substances that not only attract drones during pairing flights, but also regulate behavior, inhibit the development of the ovaries, direct the activity of bees to feeding and rearing the brood, restore the honeycombs, supply the family […]
The main goal of the breeding work is constant improvement of useful and economic qualities in bee families, as well as an increase in the productivity of beekeeping. Breeding work consists in: Selection and selection of the total mass of bees of such families, which have the best productivity. For them, the conditions of maintenance […]
For beekeeping, it is simply necessary to identify, fix and breed the best genotypes in which the best signs of economically useful bees are fully present. That is, the newly-derived bees must be as productive as possible, and also be able to adapt well to natural climatic and medosborne conditions. A high degree of purity […]
Fig. 1. General view. I offer readers a uterine cell of its own design. It consists of a transparent body 2 and a bottom 4, in which holes are made for ventilation and contact of the bees with the uterus. The upper end of the body is closed with a stopper 1. There are also […]
Receiving from the beekeeping nurseries of valuable breeding queens, beekeepers often lose them through mistakes in the placement in the family. Causes, when bees take hostilely other people’s queens, a lot, I will not recount them. I just want to share one of the ways that guarantees the survival of the queens without any difficulties. […]