AU2021103101A4 - Drone breeding device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to the technical field of bee breeding devices, and
particularly provides a drone breeding device, including a hive box. The hive
box includes an upper top plate, a lower bottom plate and side plates, and
heating plates for heating the inside of the hive box are arranged in the hive box.
The temperature in the hive box can be increased by energizing the heating
plates, and the temperature in the hive box can be controlled so that the hive box
is suitable for the survival of drones.
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Technical Field The disclosure relates to the technical field of bee breeding devices, in particular to a drone breeding device. Background Art Drone breeding is of great significance in bee breeding and is related to the normal insemination of virgin queen bees. Normal bee colonies mostly breed drones during the colony swarming season in late spring, early summer or autumn. The number of drones bred in each colony is related to the population of the bee colony, variety and upper top plate status. Generally, hundreds or thousands of drones are naturally bred and go out to mate with the virgin queen bee when the weather is normal. In the late autumn and early winter, especially when the outside temperature is lower than about 20 °C, the worker bees in the
colony will drag the eggs, larvae and pupae of the drones in the colony out of the hive without feeding, even if drones that have left the hive will be expelled out of the hive by the worker bees and starved to death or frozen to death. In the process of bee breeding, in order to speed up the breeding of generations, especially in the winter to the south of the Yellow River, the virgin queen bees must be bred for artificial insemination when the outside temperature is 10-15 °C for a long time. In the conventional situation, the artificial insemination was completed by using frozen semen; however, the protection liquid, freezing and thawing, etc. will cause certain damage to drone semen. Chinese bee breeders have also designed methods for breeding drones in the ultra-early and ultra-late stages; however, in the actual production process, when the outside temperature is low, especially when the outside temperature is lower than 15 °C, the main problem is that the drones cannot be bread successfully, or the drones are expelled to the outside of the hive and starved to death or frozen to death before they reach sexual maturity. Therefore, it is desired for a device capable of breeding drones at a low temperature. Summary of the Disclosure In view of this, the objective of the disclosure is to provide a drone breeding device that can control the temperature in the hive box through a heating device so that the hive box 1 is suitable for the survival of drones. For achieving the above objective, the disclosure provides the following technical solution: The disclosure provides a drone breeding device, including a hive box, the hive box includes an upper top plate, a lower bottom plate and side plates, and heating plates for heating the inside of the hive box are arranged in the hive box. Further, the upper top plate, the lower bottom plate and the side plates are each provided with the heating plate. Further, the upper top plate, the lower bottom plate and the side plates are each provided with an interlayer space, and the heating plates are arranged in the interlayer spaces. Further, one sides of the upper top plate, the lower bottom plate and the side plates facing the inside of the hive box are each provided with heat-skin holes. Further, first sliding grooves are formed in the hive box, and the upper top plate is in sliding fit with the first sliding grooves. Further, the upper top plate is provided with a vent for ventilation. Further, the upper top plate is provided with second sliding grooves along the side of the vent in the length direction; an adjusting plate is arranged in the sliding grooves and is in sliding fit with the sliding grooves; and the upper top plate is provided with an avoidance opening for avoiding the adjusting plate.
Further, the upper top plate is provided with a water trough, a honey water trough, and a pollen trough. Further, temperature detection probe for detecting temperature are arranged in the hive box, and a switch for controlling the start and stop of the heating device is arranged on the hive box. Further, the hive box is provided with a hive door for bees to enter and exit, and a honeycomb is arranged in the hive box. The utility model has the following beneficial effects: The temperature in the hive box can be increased by energizing the heating plates, and the temperature in the hive box can be controlled so that the hive box is suitable for the survival of drones. Brief Description of the Drawings In order to make the objective, technical solutions and beneficial effects of the disclosure clearer, the disclosure provides the following drawings for illustration: FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram of the drone breeding device of the disclosure; FIG. 2 is a front view of the upper top plate in the drone breeding device of the disclosure; and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the installation of the heating plate in the embodiment of the drone breeding device of the disclosure. Description of reference numerals: 1- hive box; 2- heating plate; 3- upper top plate; 4- lower bottom plate; 5 side plate; 6- first sliding groove; 7- vent; 8- second sliding groove; 9- adjusting plate; 10- avoidance opening; 11-water trough; 12-honey trough; 13-pollen trough; 14-switch; 15-hive door; 16-temperature detection probe. Description of Embodiments The disclosure will be further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments, so that those skilled in the art can better understand the disclosure and implement it, but the embodiments taken are not intended to limit the disclosure. As shown in FIG. 1, it is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a drone breeding device of the present invention, including a hive box 1 in which heating plates for heating the inside of the hive box 1 are arranged. Specifically, the hive box 1 in this embodiment includes an upper top plate 3, a lower bottom plate 4, and side plates 5, and heating plates 2 are provided on the upper top plate 3, the lower bottom plate 4, and the side plate 5. A hive door 15 uses the heating plate 2 to heat the inside of the hive box 1, and the upper top plate 3, the o lower bottom plate 4 and the side plates 5 are each equipped with a heating plate 2 to evenly heat the inside of the hive box1 so that large temperature difference inside the hive box 1 is reduced and the hive box 1 is thus more suitable for the survival and breeding of drones. Further, in this embodiment, the upper top plate 3, the lower bottom plate 4 and the side plates 5 are each provided with an interlayer space, and the heating plates 2 are arranged in the interlayer spaces. By arranging the heating plates in the interlayer spaces, the heat of the heating plates can pass through the upper top plate 3, the lower bottom plate 4 and the side plates 5 to be indirectly transferred into the hive box 1, and the drone can be prevented from directly contacting the heating plates 2, so that the hive box is more suitable for the survival of drones. Further, in this embodiment, one sides of the upper top plate 3, the lower bottom plate 4, and the side plates 5 facing the inside of the hive box 1 are each provided with heat-sink holes by which the heat on the heating plates 2 can be more easily transferred to the hive box 1. Further, first sliding grooves 6 are formed in the hive box 1 in this embodiment, and the upper top plate 3 is in sliding fit with the first sliding grooves 6. Specifically, the width of the sliding grooves is set to 1 cm. The upper top plate 3 can be pulled to open or close the hive box 1.
Further, the upper top plate 3 is provided with a vent 7 for ventilation. The vent 7 is used for air circulation inside and outside the hive box 1. Further, as shown in FIG. 2, in this embodiment, the upper top plate 3 is provided with second sliding grooves 8 along the side of the vent 7 in the length direction, and the upper top plate 3 is provided with an avoidance opening 10 for avoiding an adjusting plate 9. The size of the vent 7 can be controlled by pulling the adjusting plate 9 so that the hive box 1 can adapt to the specific culture conditions for ventilation. Further, as shown in FIG. 2, in this embodiment, the upper top plate 3 is provided with a water trough 11, a honey water trough 12, and a pollen trough 13 to facilitate free feeding by drones. Further, in this embodiment, temperature detection probes 16 for detecting temperature are arranged in the hive box 1. In this embodiment, four temperature detection probes 16 are installed on the lower bottom plate 4 and evenly distributed; the hive box 1 is provided with a switch 14 for controlling the start and stop of the heating device. The temperature detection probes can monitor the temperature in the hive box 1 in real time and provide the breeder with reliable temperature information in the hive box 1. The switch 14 can control the start and stop of the heating plates 2. When the temperature detection probes 16 monitor that the temperature in the hive box 1 reaches 25 °C to 28 °C, the switch 14 can automatically turn off the heating plates 2 to stop heating. Further, the hive box 1 in this embodiment is provided with the hive door 15 for bees to enter and exit, and a honeycomb is arranged in the hive box 1. Preferably, the honeycomb is 40-47 cm long, 30-45 cm wide, and 20-28 cm high. In this embodiment, the honeycomb is preferably 44 cm long, 40 cm wide, and 25 cm high. In the case of a temperature of 10 °C to 15 °C, the operation steps for breeding drones with the above-mentioned drone breeding device are as follows:
1. Preparation is made for breeding drones 35 days before the use of drones. The bee colony is transferred to the drone breeding device, the population of the colony is replenished until the hive box is full; the relationship between bees and honeycomb is adjusted so that the number of bees is 2 combs more than the number of combs; bees are fed with honey (3:2) and pollen cake from the feeder every night (until sperms are collected from the drones); the switch of the drone breeding heating device is turned on; the temperature in the box is adjusted to the highest level of 28 °C when the ambient temperature is 10 °C, the temperature in the box is adjusted to the lowest level of 25 °C when the ambient temperature is 15 °C, and the temperature in the box in other cases can be set to corresponding level according to the ambient temperature. 2. The drone combs are placed after the bee colony excretes in flight for 2 days, and the queen bees are each restricted to only lay 2 eggs on the drone combs. 3. The worker bee combs are added 4 days after the queen bees lay eggs and the queen bees are restricted from laying eggs on the worker bee combs. 4. 9 days after the queen bees lay eggs, a plurality of queen breeding frames with wax cells are placed in the center of the bee colony to be cleaned by the worker bees, and the queen bees in the colony are removed; after the worker bees clean up for 2 hours, worker bee larvae obtained in step 3 are transferred into the wax cells, and the bee colony breed virgin queen bees. 5. 19 days after the queen bees lay eggs, all the virgin queen bees are placed in a queen storage cage; artificial sugar (made by steps of crushing and sieving cane sugar, adding acacia honey in the cane sugar, and kneading into a solid paste) is placed in the queen storage cage. 6. The drones in the colony can be used for sperm collection 32-36 days after the queen bees lay eggs.
7. If it is necessary to keep the drones alive at a low temperature with a range of 10 °C to 15°C for a long time, after step 3, the queen bees in the above queen storage cage are replaced with virgin queen bees regularly bred from another swarm every 18 days (10 days for Chinese bees (Apis sinensis)) (the queen bees must be unmated virgin queen bees) until the end of the use of the drones. By adopting the drone breeding device of the disclosure and through the above steps, the drones can be bred at a low temperature within a range of 10 C
to 15 C to produce the drone, and the device and method can realize the
o long-term survival of the drones at a low temperature within a range of 10 C to
15C to the day of sexual maturity.
The above-mentioned embodiments are only preferred embodiments for fully describing the disclosure and the protection scope of the disclosure is not limited thereto. The equivalent substitutions or transformations made by those skilled in the art on the basis of the disclosure are all within the protection scope of the disclosure. The protection scope of the disclosure is subject to the claims. It will be understood that the term "comprise" and any of its derivatives (eg comprises, comprising) as used in this specification is to be taken to be inclusive of features to which it refers, and is not meant to exclude the presence of any additional features unless otherwise stated or implied. The reference to any prior art in this specification is not, and should not be taken as, an acknowledgement or any form of suggestion that such prior art forms part of the common general knowledge. In some cases, a single embodiment may, for succinctness and/or to assist in understanding the scope of the disclosure, combine multiple features. It is to be understood that in such a case, these multiple features may be provided separately (in separate embodiments), or in any other suitable combination. Alternatively, where separate features are described in separate embodiments, these separate features may be combined into a single embodiment unless otherwise stated or implied. This also applies to the claims which can be recombined in any combination. That is a claim may be amended to include a feature defined in any other claim. Further a phrase referring to "at least one of' a list of items refers to any combination of those items, including single members. As an example, "at least one of: a, b, or c" is intended to cover: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, and a-b-c.
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1. A drone breeding device, comprising a hive box (1), wherein the hive box (1) comprises an upper top plate (3), a lower bottom plate (4) and side plates (5), and heating plates (2) for heating the inside of the hive box (1) are arranged in the hive box (1).
2. The drone breeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper top plate (3), the lower bottom plate (4) and the side plates (5) are each provided with the heating plate (2).
3. The drone breeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper top plate (3), the lower bottom plate (4) and the side plates (5) are each provided with an interlayer space, and the heating plates (2) are arranged in the interlayer spaces.
4. The drone breeding device according to claim 3, characterized in that one sides of the upper top plate (3), the lower bottom plate (4) and the side plates (5) facing the inside of the hive box (1) are each provided with heat-skin holes.
5. The drone breeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that first sliding grooves (6) are formed in the hive box (1), and the upper top plate (3) is in sliding fit with the first sliding grooves (6).
6. The drone breeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper top plate (3) is provided with a vent (7) for ventilation.
7. The drone breeding device according to claim 6, characterized in that the upper top plate (3) is provided with second sliding grooves (8) along the side of the vent (7) in the length direction; an adjusting plate (9) is arranged in the sliding grooves (8) and is in sliding fit with the sliding grooves (8); and the upper top plate (3) is provided with an avoidance opening (10) for avoiding the adjusting plate (9).
8. The drone breeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper top plate (3) is provided with a water trough (11), a honey water trough (12), and a pollen trough (13).
9. The drone breeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that temperature detection probes (16) for detecting temperature are arranged in the hive box (1), and a switch (14) for controlling the start and stop of the heating device is arranged on the hive box (1).
10. The drone breeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that the hive box (1) is provided with a hive door (15) for bees to enter and exit, and a honeycomb is arranged in the hive box (1).
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