Cases are frequent, especially in the Primorsky Territory with its capricious winter, when families remain bezmatochnymi. Such families, as a rule, perish. The original method was suggested and repeatedly used by the amateur beekeeper. At the beginning of wintering, he discovered an ice-free family. She behaved very restlessly and would hardly have survived until spring. […]
For several years I have been using a nucleus hive of my own design for the withdrawal of queens. It consists of a body 1 on a standard 435 X 300 mm nest frame, which is divided into two compartments by an inset partition 2. The latter freely enters the grooves 4, available in the […]
Currently, in the apiaries of our country, many homemade devices are used to catch the uterus during the swarming of the bees. Their common disadvantage is the lack of guarantee against damage to it during catching and retrieval from the cell. Developed by us, the slick devices for capturing the queen bee are free from […]
Now the demand for the queen increases significantly, so the mass withdrawal of queens becomes more and more popular, in which conventional beekeeping equipment is used, as well as nucleuses – small bee colonies in which there are few bees. – for the fertilization of the queens and temporary storage of them, as well as […]
For the preservation of fetal queens during the season, I made from two-millimeter boards a two-walled insulated four-place nucleus hive. Inside it is divided by plywood partitions into eight compartments. Each includes two frames without shoulders 100 mm wide, 135 high, 37.5 mm thick. From the sides I restrict them to nails, and in the […]
It is known that high honey gathering can be obtained from strong families with young uterus. For the artificial withdrawal of queens in the early period, I use a special frame-insulator. Cross-section of the upper bar 15X25 mm, medium 12X25, bottom and side 6X25 mm. The rear wall is studded with a brass netting 1 […]
Bezmatelnye families are rapidly weakened, their bees are poorly protected, and therefore easily subjected to attack and looting. Such families should be corrected as soon as possible. Observations show that in the early spring (soon after the exhibition), it is not necessary to force bees of even strong families to withdraw fistula. If there are […]
The application of labels to the bee is made in order to distinguish between the uterus by origin, individual lines and age. You can label the uterus in many ways. For this, multi-colored uterus is used. These labels are glued with glue on the dorsal shield, yellow and red. The color of these marks is […]