DE3828675A1 - Device and method for propagating or breeding queen bees - Google Patents

Abstract

Method of propagating or breeding queen bees taking into account the flow of information within the breeding receptacle. A secondary effect is that the queen bee larvae are less exposed to danger by the varroa mite. In this method and this device for breeding queen bees in the queenright bee colony, the breeding receptacle (1) is separated by means of a separation mesh (2) which cannot be penetrated by bees to form an information space and a space for brood care. The functional information is transmitted by the bees in the information space through the separation mesh to the bees in the space for brood care. Queen bees which are bred by this method are queenright. The acceptance figures achieved in this method according to the invention over the entire breeding period are considerably higher. Moreover, since there is a constant turnover of brood, the queen bee larvae are endangered much less by varroa mites than in the previously known method, where brood is constantly running out, thus releasing large amounts of mites which find no host to parasitise other than the queen bee larvae, which they then can damage extensively. <IMAGE>

Description

According to the previously known breeding methods, it is necessary nimble to prepare a strong people by going through it stimulating feeding is made to swarm.

The queen must then be taken out and subsequently all replacement cells are also removed. Only after 9 days, when the breeding population is hopeless is wiseless, a breeding frame can be tainted with Cups are hung.

This procedure gives good results when used once and useful results.

The following breeding already shows gaps poor care and acceptance, on. That’s why Traced queens of poor quality. A third attempt or re-larvae of the cells fails because of care despite sufficient young bees information of the previously removed queen is missing. The results resulting from series of tests, led to the realization that the strength of care people is only of secondary importance. Primary, and, of far greater importance for quality and Quantity of the breeding result is that the supply of the nursing people with pheromones of the queen is because all the functional information Mations are included, the preservation of the bees serve people.

While supplying the queen with feed juice, through her royal household, the queen also gives pheromones to the bees accompanying them, which are then used for the further dissemination of the information throughout Beehive care.

The flow of information is not interrupted if the breeding trough in an information area with queen  and a care area without a queen using a bee-impermeable grid is separated if at the same time it is ensured that on both sides of the Lattice enough bees to be kept so tight so that this contact with their proboscis through the grid can hold through.

Thus, the bees in the care area are also out adequately supplied with pheromones and remain ready for maintenance.

After removing the breeding frame with queen cells, can again a cultivation frame with loaded cells will.

The breeding result is of the same good quality as that Breeding in the right wise people.

In addition, sufficient remains in the information area open brood combs so that the Varroa mites do not grow to the only still open brood of queen breeding must concentrate, by the expiring worker nenbrut is continuously released.

Of course, the bees of the Care area, so that the cap is covered Brood combs from the information area (with queen) becomes necessary.

It is not necessary to have the brood combs mounted Bees and therefore the information people too weaken, the care information is still about that Partition grid passed.

Nevertheless, the shoulder strap should be worn after 7 days at the latest ten honeycombs examined for possible replacement cells and if necessary, these are removed.

The constant proving and demeaning of breeding colonies ent thus falls, even methods by which foreign colonies young bees are swept away and these to the breeding population be performed.  

This only results in short-term readiness to care sufficient for at most one breeding, approx. 20-25 kings After that, the willingness to care is lacking Pheromones are exhausted, so the procedure keeps coming back must be fetched.

The breeding method according to my Ver driving, works self-sustaining and needs no help from other peoples. It can even if the breeding mother is allowed to develop freely, to swarm. Then it becomes necessary Breeders take bee mass to form offshoots. At the end of the breeding period there is no loss of one valuable breeding people, if it is not in time is again evidenced, but an intact people who as long as the breeding mother lives without long preparation can be used as breeding people.

Swarm prevention is the reverse of breeding driving.

If a bee colony gets into a swarm mood, it will Queen taken from the main people and with some brood honeycomb over the previous frame.

For absolute separation, a base frame Fig. 2 Pos. 3, as well as an insert in this, the parts Pos. 5 and 6, are necessary.

This combination lets heat through, prevents however any contact of the now unwise head people with the queen offspring over the multipurpose base frame.

Become queenside and remaining unmanned Main people with a simple lattice frame or stretch metal separated, so there is contact by bees swarm readiness above the grid and it can be in  about 20% even after swarming to rave to lead.

Years of tests have clearly confirmed this.

The invention based on some characters explained.

Fig. 1 are 2 parts with the reference characters 1 and 2 .

It shows

Pos. 1 A kit without floor boards and lid, arranged side by side, with floor part and floor attachment. A center bar to accommodate the partition frame ( 2 ).

The flight holes are offset from one another arranged to make the bees fly together to complicate. The nursing hole Reichs is said to have a gate become an unwanted fly by to prevent foreign young queen.

To expand the breeding trough with a larger bee mass, series batches or parts of the Erlangen magazine hive ( Fig. 2; Item 3 ) can be used.

Pos. 2: A separating grid, made of wire or synthetic fiber, mesh size from 1 to 4 mm. Bordered in a wooden or plastic frame, suitable in pos. 1, guided by milling on the front and rear of the prey.

The divider frame must be replaced of bees from information to care prevent rich.  

Fig. 2 Pos. 4: Base frame for attachment to Erlanger magazine ( 3 ) and to accommodate Pos. 5 or 6. Can be used in conjunction with the bottom part as a flat bottom and in connection with Pos. 5, closed feed insert plate as a cover will.

Pos. 5: Commercial insulation board. Can be used as a food cover with a central opening.

Pos. 6: Partition grid for spatial separation of peoples arranged one above the other, which are united and should be made the same before information.

• - as insert in pos. 4 ,
• - for time separation,
• - Informally align to Purposes of association.

Pos. 7: An additional inner frame in conjunction with Pos. 6, which completely separates the queenside from the unprofitable economic people according to the invention. The large distance between the two dividers prevents contact between the two peoples and prevents swarming.

• - as insert in pos. 6,
• - prevention of swarm by Prevention of contact.

Claims (4)

1. In the method according to the invention for the breeding or multiplication of queen bees in the right wise people, characterized in that the breeding mother remains in the breeding colony throughout the breeding period. Negative phenomena such as incapacity to care are eliminated. 2. Breeding and implementation of the method according to the invention require an appropriate structure of the breeding trough.
The breeding can take place in one or an extended, side by side or one above the other, breeding trough or breeding box, characterized in that a close-meshed separating grid separates the breeding trough or box into an information and a care area and prevents the free passage for bees and queen. The flow of information is triggered by the queen's pheromones and maintained by the bees' proboscis through the grating. 3. Subsidiary claim from the method according to the invention, characterized in that to prevent swarm, the queen with brood comb over a multi-purpose base frame (item 3 ) with lattice frame (item 6 ) is placed. 4. subsidiary claim from the inventive method arises that the queen breeding through the Varroa mite is far less endangered records that during the entire breeding period open brood combs are in the breeding trough.