RU133388U1 - DEVICE FOR WITHDRAWING BEEBARDS AND ROYAL MILK - Google Patents

Abstract

A device for removing queen bees and collecting royal jelly, which is a bowl artificially formed from beeswax, characterized in that the upper part of the bowl and its bottom are made separately, while the upper part has the shape of an inverted hollow truncated cone equipped with a cylindrical connecting neck with a bottom with an inner diameter of 4.5 mm and a height of 4 mm, and the bottom of a bowl of wax is made in the form of an incomplete cylinder with a diameter of 4.5 mm and a height of 4.0 mm, into which it is mounted from below wire fastening 7-8 mm, while the bottom part bowls adapted to its insertion into the coupling neck of the top of the bowls.

Description

The proposed utility model relates to agriculture and can be used in beekeeping for hatching queen bees and collecting royal jelly.

There is a method of withdrawal of uterus and collection of royal jelly, based on the use of so-called bowls, which are made from beeswax using patterns (Carpathian bees. Reference book. 2nd edition, revised and supplemented. Uzhgorod. Publishing house No. Karpaty ", 1989, pg. 121, 122). These bowls are glued with molten wax to wooden wedges, which in the same way are attached to the planks of grafting frames. After that, a drop of royal jelly is introduced into the bowls and transferred from the honeycomb, one bee larva. A grafting frame with small bowls is placed in the center of the hive of the teacher's family. After 12-13 days, queen bees are hatched from queen cells built by bees on the basis of small bowls.

Disadvantage: inconvenience of adaptation, difficulty in selecting coeval larvae, which is necessary for the simultaneous withdrawal of uterus, as well as a lack of specialists capable of transferring larvae without damage.

Other devices for hatching queen bees, which are the closest analogue to the proposed utility model, are to ensure that the bee laying eggs in beeswax made using cell patterns, obtaining larvae in them, half-cutting cells and transforming them into bowls by half, without damaging the larvae ( Patent RU No. 2287265 dated November 20, 2006).

Disadvantage: the complexity of manufacturing the cells and collecting them into artificial cells, the greater the likelihood of damage to the larvae when transforming the cells with the larvae in them into bowls.

The technical problem solved by the proposed model is the exclusion from the process of removing queen bees and collecting royal jelly operations on the transformation of cells with larvae in them into bowls, as well as operations on gluing bowls on wedges and wedges on planks of the attaching frame, creating ease of use devices.

The essence of the model is that the upper part of the bowl and its bottom part are made separately, while the upper part has the shape of an inverted truncated hollow cone equipped with a cylindrical connecting neck with an inner diameter of 4.5 mm and a height of 4.0 mm from the bottom, and the bottom of the bowl the wax is made in the form of an incomplete cylinder with a diameter of 4.5 mm and a height of 4.0 mm, into which a wire fastening of 7-8 mm is mounted from below, while the bottom of the bowl is made with the possibility of inserting it into the connecting neck erhney of the bowls.

The proposed model is illustrated by the diagrams presented in figure 1-3.

In Fig. 1, a sectional view of a bowl without its bottom is shown, in Fig. 2 is a bottom of a bowl with wire fastening, in Fig. 3 is an assembled bowl.

Figure 4-6 shows additional elements: a fragment of a plastic tube - figure 4, the guide rod - figure 5 and expandable tweezers - figure 6, recommended when using the proposed utility model.

In Fig.7 shows a fragment of the strap grafting frame mounted on her bowls.

The proposed model is used as follows.

A correctly built light brown honeycomb is selected in which the bees have grown 2-3 brood generations. In the center of the honeycomb, in heaps without eggs and larvae, in such a way that this part of the honeycomb frame can be covered with a cap made of a dividing grid, the bottom parts of 2 small bowls with wire fasteners are inserted. The introduction is carried out in the following sequence: on the part of the guide rod, Fig. 5, having a length of 4.0 mm and a diameter of 4.5 mm, put on a piece of plastic tube, Fig. 4 into which the bottom part of the bowl is inserted, Fig. 2, taking it by wire fastening, after which, using the rod, figure 5, enter the bottom part, figure 2 together with a fragment of the tube, figure 4 into the cell and leave it in it. After this, the honeycomb zone with the desired number of cells filled with fragments of plastic tubes with the bottom parts of the bowls inserted into them is covered with a cap made of a separation grid, after which the queen bee has been launched under it. After the queen bee lays eggs in all cells, which takes about 4 hours, the cap is removed and using the expandable tweezers, Fig.6, inserted into a fragment of plastic tubes, Fig.4, remove these fragments from the cells together with inserted them bottom parts of the bowls, figure 2, on which there are bee eggs. After that, the bottom parts of the bowls, FIG. 2, taking them by wire fasteners, are removed from the tube fragments, FIG. 4 and inserted from below into the connecting neck of the upper parts of the bowls, FIG. 1.

Following this, the collected bowls with the bee eggs in them are fixed on the planks of the grafting frame, sticking wire fasteners into wax plugs inserted into the holes drilled in these planks.

After that, the grafting frame with the bowls fixed on its planks, in which the bee eggs are located, is transferred to the kindergarten. After 12-13 days, queen bees are hatched from queen cells built by bees on the basis of small bowls.

If it is necessary to collect royal jelly, the process of removing queen bees is interrupted at the end of the fourth day after transferring the vaccination frame to the caregiver, the larvae are removed from the bowls, and the royal jelly deposited in the bowls by the breadwinners is collected with miniature glass spatulas.

The achievement of the technical result set by the proposed useful model is obvious: when it is used, the operation of transforming the cells into bowls and gluing the bowls to the wedges, and wedges with bowls to the grafting frames from the process of removing queen bees and collecting royal jelly. Thanks to this, the process of withdrawal of uterus and collection of royal jelly becomes more simple and economical.

Example 1

To replace the exhausted queen bees in 25 hives, the beekeeper A. made 25 bees from beeswax according to the proposed model: separately 25 top parts of bowls with connecting necks at the bottom and 25 bottom parts with wire fasteners mounted in them. Then, alternately putting pieces of plastic tubes on the guide rod, he introduced the bottom parts of the bowls into their ends, which, together with the fragments of the tubes, he introduced into the cells of a well-built honeycomb in its center. After that, the beekeeper covered this area of the honeycomb with a cap from the dividing grid, having previously planted a queen bee under it. After 4 hours, eggs in all cells of the queen bee were laid. The beekeeper removed the cap and, using expander tweezers inserted into a fragment of plastic tubes, removed these fragments from the cells together with the bottom parts of the bowls, each of which contained one bee egg. Holding the bottom parts of the bowls by the wire fastenings mounted in them, he took them out of the fragments of the tubes and inserted them into the connecting necks of the upper parts of the bowls from below. Then the beekeeper secured the bowls collected in such a way with the bee eggs in them on the planks of the grafting frame, sticking the wire fasteners mounted in the lower parts of the bowls into the wax plugs inserted into the holes drilled in the planks and transferred the grafted frame to the kindergarten. After 13 days, 25 queen bees hatched from queen cells built by bees on the basis of small bowls.

Example 2

An order for an urgent collection of 36 g of royal jelly was received at the bee farm. The beekeeper calculated that 144 bowls would be required. He made detachable ones, as in example 1, in the same way introduced the bottom of the bowls into the cells of the honeycomb by the end of the day, covered them with a cap from the dividing grid, after placing the queen bee under it. By morning, the queen bee laid eggs in all cells. Having removed the cap, the beekeeper, as in Example 1, connected the lower parts of the bowls with the eggs laid on them with the upper parts of the bowls and fixed the collected bowls equally on the planks of 6 grafting frames, and then transferred the frames one by one to 6 kindergarten families. By the end of the seventh day, the beekeeper removed all six frames from the beehives, removed the bowls with the three-day larvae contained in them from the grafting frame strips, removed the larvae from the bowls, and the royal jelly collected in the bowls by the educating bees collected them using test tubes with a miniature glass spatula. In total, 36 g of royal jelly was collected, as ordered, or an average of 0.25 g from each bowl.

Claims (1)

A device for removing queen bees and collecting royal jelly, which is a bowl artificially formed from beeswax, characterized in that the upper part of the bowl and its bottom are made separately, while the upper part has the shape of an inverted hollow truncated cone equipped with a cylindrical connecting neck with a bottom with an inner diameter of 4.5 mm and a height of 4 mm, and the bottom of a bowl of wax is made in the form of an incomplete cylinder with a diameter of 4.5 mm and a height of 4.0 mm, into which it is mounted from below wire fastening 7-8 mm, while the bottom part bowls adapted to its insertion into the coupling neck of the top of the bowls.

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