RU2055472C1 - Queen cell - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: apiculture. SUBSTANCE: queen cell comprises a casing made of a pan and partitions with ventilation holes and ports, as well as removable covers with hooks for fastening control honeycombs. Partitions have shoulders whose width as well as that of the pan corresponds to two intervals between honeycomb frames for installing queen cell between the first and third honeycombs before their middle partition instead of removed second honeycomb frame. EFFECT: improved design. 4 cl, 5 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to beekeeping, namely, devices for maintaining an additional family inside the nest of the main bee family.

 Known devices for capturing the queen bee, containing a housing with one or more partitions, an entrance opening with gate valves and a side for attaching the housing to honeycombs (for example, AS USSR N 820757, class A 01 K 47/06, 1976).

 However, these devices (traps) are not intended to contain the micro-family with the uterus in a strange family.

 A nucleus is known for containing a spare uterus in a strong family, containing a body in the form of a rim from a strip two honeycombs wide, installed between two honeycombs in the nest of the main family, with the formation of a closed cavity (Grebenyuk S.D. Spare uterus in a strong family. Beekeeping, 1980, N 2, p. 26).

 This nucleus is used for the wintering of the microfamily, but in summer it is not used, since it does not have bees reaching the letka.

 A nucleus is known that contains a rim-body mounted on a honeycomb with a mesh cover in which a window for the passage of the uterus is provided, equipped with a shutter (Domashenko I.M.

 In this device, damage to the spare uterus, especially the infertile one, by bees of the main family is not prevented.

 Closest to the proposed, i.e. the prototype is a nucleus containing a cylindrical body-rim installed by the ends between two honeycombs to their mediastinum, with ventilation holes and windows communicated with the tap holes through the tubes, as well as removable covers.

 The disadvantage of both the prototype and all other known solutions is that it makes it difficult to control the state of the micro-family, since for this it is necessary to remove the nucleus along with the honeycombs from the hive.

 The technical task of the invention is to simplify the care and control of the state of the micro-family in the nucleus.

 The problem is solved in that in a nucleus containing a housing located between two honeycombs before their mediastinum, with removable covers, ventilation holes and windows communicated with the tap holes by means of tubes, the housing is made in the form of a pallet and at least two partitions equipped with shoulders for installations inside the honeycomb, and removable covers, according to the number of compartments between the partitions, are equipped with hooks for attaching control cells.

 In this case, the width of the pallet and partitions corresponds to two intervals between the honeycombs of a standard hive.

 The partitions are arranged vertically and the covers horizontally.

 The tube is made in the form of a cylindrical spring of tape material.

 In FIG. 1 shows a beehive, general view, longitudinal section along the nucleus; in FIG. 2 same, top view; figure 3 section aa in figure 1, with the lid up; figure 4 is a view along arrow B in figure 3; figure 5 tube.

 The nucleus contains a housing in the form of a pallet 1 and partitions 2 and 3, the extreme 2 form the side walls, and the middle 3 divide the housing into compartments, and there can be one compartment, i.e. partitions 3 are absent. Partitions 2 and 3 are made in the form of plates with ventilation holes 4 and nets 5, as well as with shoulders 6 for installation in honeycombs 7. The width "in" of partitions 2 and 3, as well as pallet 1, corresponds to two intervals "a" between nesting honeycombs 7 standard hive 8, in particular b 72 mm, for mounting the housing 1 between the honeycombs 7 to their mediastinum 9 and forming inside their closed cavity 10, communicated through at least one tube (or sleeve) 11 with a notch 12, while the tube 11 is made elastic and breathable, in particular Nena as a cylindrical wire spring or coil spring of the elastic band.

 On top of the cavity 10, removable covers 13 are closed by the number of compartments equipped with hooks 14 on which control cells 15 are hung, the width of which is selected from the gap condition “c” between them and partitions 2 and 3, with 5-7 mm.

 Nucleus works as follows.

 The second honeycomb 7 is removed from the hive 8, and a nucleus is installed in its place, for which the first and third honeycombs are removed from the hive and a tray and partitions are introduced between them, which can be pre-connected to each other or installed separately, until the mediastinum honeycombs .

 The nucleus assembly with the honeycombs is installed in the beehive 8 and connected to the notch 12 through the tube 11. A control honeycomb 15 is hung on the hooks 14 and lids 13 are mounted on the compartments of the cavity 10.

 In this position, the cavity 10 is isolated from the main bee nest by means of the nucleus body and the honeycomb, and from the outside world by covers 13.

 Through the summers 12, micro families with infertile uteri are housed in the nucleus and left alone for 7-10 days, after which the nucleus is not removed from the hive, but only by lifting the lid 13 with the control cell 15, the state of the uterus is checked, covering the nest with a transparent case 16.

 In the proposed nucleus, additional microfamilies do not adversely affect the condition of the main family and, in turn, the latter cannot harm the uterus of others. As a result, good offspring were obtained from the uterus from the nucleus.

 When connecting the nucleus body to the notch in the side wall of the hive, a spiral spring sleeve with a tape width of 18-60 mm and a length of 75-1500 mm is connected to the hole of the plate.

Claims (4)

 1. NUCLEUS, comprising a housing secured between honeycombs in a hive with ventilation vents, characterized in that the housing is equipped with bushings for connecting its internal space to the external environment and the lid and is formed by a pallet interconnected and plates with holes mounted on it in vertical planes, wherein each pair of adjacent plates forms a chamber, at least one of the bushings is connected to the hole of one of the plates, and the cover is installed horizontally in the upper part of the housing.  2. The nucleus according to claim 1, characterized in that when the two- or multi-chamber execution of the housing, the cover is made of sections, the number of which corresponds to the number of cameras.  3. The nucleus according to claim 1, characterized in that the bushings are made in the form of cylindrical wire springs or coil springs of elastic bands.  4. The nucleus according to claim 3, characterized in that when connecting the housing to the notch in the side wall of the hive, a sleeve in the form of a spiral spring with a tape width of 18-60 mm and a length of 75-1,500 mm is connected to the hole of one of the plates.

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