RU2081571C1 - Method and equipment for multiple queen-bee keeping - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: agriculture, apiculture, honey and bee venom storing. SUBSTANCE: at expansion of nested space due to supranested one should create additional space where frames of sealed brood and honey covered by bees are placed, transfer of a single queen-bee family into a multiple one is conducted by dividing the family and introducing queen-bees or queen-bee eggs into queen-bee-free nests. The power of every nest is regulated by redistributing frames of sealed brood and honey by using a multiple storey hive with cells for bees arranged in several floors with separators between them performed with possibility to place double network, diaphragm and bee discharger. On frontal hive supports a hinged cover together with vent sieve of the upper supranested space and tapping panel are fixed, as for back supports they have removable back walls facing every bee cell and valves opposite separators. At the same time all vertical supports should be figured with internal apertures for vertical separators. EFFECT: higher efficiency and decreased expenses. 3 cl, 4 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to agriculture, in particular to beekeeping.

 The method of multi-content maintenance is achieved by the fact that, with a constant main volume of nesting space, its expansion for a strong family is ensured by creating and using an additional volume of nesting space separated from the nest in the hive and evenly distributing the frames with printed brood extracted from the nest in it, printed honey and bees hatching them.

 The transfer of a single-parent family to a multi-parent family is carried out by dividing the family and replanting the uterus, mature mother cells into the formed uterine-free families, and the strength of each nest is supported by the redistribution of the print brood and printed honey with the bees hatching them between the nesting and nesting spaces.

 After combining single-parent families into a multi-parent family, during the next inspection of the nests, in order to assess the strength of the families, the frames with printed honey and printed brood are taken from them, and then all these frames, together with the bees that are sitting on them, are also placed in the newly organized, common for all nests in the nesting space of the hive. Moreover, in the nesting space, next to the open brood, only frames with sushi and unsealed honey are placed. This allows you to have, directly in the nests, a sufficient number of empty bee cells that the bees can prepare for the uterus for sowing.

 All frames extracted from each nest of a multimodal family and placed in a common nesting space, with printed honey, printed brood and bees hatching them, are common to all nests. Therefore, everything that exists in the nesting space, each nest considers it to be its own only to him. On the basis of this, in each individual family, “fraudulently” the “fake effect of belonging”, there is a feeling of the presence in the nest of a huge family with phenomenal potential.

 This method, based on the use of a nest dispersed throughout the hive, allows completely eliminating the swarming of bees in a multimodal family and creating optimal conditions for the highly productive work of not only each nest, but the entire multimodal family: the necessary microclimate; large general stocks of honey, printed and open brood, intra-hull and working bees prepared for sowing cells.

 A device for implementing a multimodal method of keeping bees is the following.

 In FIG. 1 shows a device for multi-feeding bees rear view; in FIG. 2 is the same, a cross section along AA of FIG. one; in FIG. 3 the same, a cross section along BB of FIG. 2; in FIG. 4 view 1 of FIG. 3.

 The device comprises a base 1, front 2 and rear 3 racks mounted on it, interconnected by guides 4, on which cassettes 5 with frames 6 are respectively mounted and delimiters 7 limiting them from the sides, above and below.

 On the front struts 2, a panel 8 is fixed with slots 9, a hinged lid 10 and a ventilation mesh 11 of the upper honey body - nest space. On the rear pillars 3, against each cartridge 5 with frames 6, rear walls 12 are installed, and valves 13 against separators 7.

 Attached to the base 1: on top of the ventilation mesh 14, on the bottom - a removable tray 15, on the side of the arrival board 16 with a flyback choke 17.

 The dividers 7 are provided with a frame 18, the side walls of which are made in the form of dividing grids 19, and the inner walls are in the form of guides 20. A double grid 21 is installed in the guides 20 with a solid diagram 22 inside. Between the guides 20 and the frame 18 are bee empties 23. Instead of a double grid 21 and a diaphragm 22, a device for collecting poison can be installed.

 The device operates as follows.

 When filling the device with bee colonies, the rear walls 12 are alternately opened, cassettes 5 are removed. The frames 6 with bees are removed from the ramonos and, forming a nest, the frames are placed in cassettes 5, which are inserted into the device along the guides 4. Then, the rear walls 12 are returned.

 At the next inspection of the nests, in order to expand the nesting space, in strong families, frames with printed honey are selected, the printed brood together with the bees hatching them is placed in the nesting space, separated from the nests by dividers 7, from which double grids 21 and solid diaphragms 22 are removed.

 When the accumulated mass of bees reaches the required size, single-parent families are divided. Moreover, the framework 6 with open and printed brood and honey from the nesting and nesting spaces is redistributed between the newly organized nests. In uterine-free nests, queens are planted. As soon as the uterus begins to sow in all nests, single-parent families are transferred to multi-parental maintenance. To do this, open the valves 13 and remove the remaining diaphragms 22 in all separators 7, which limit the nests. Three weeks later, when the bees in all the nests take a common smell, double grids 21 are removed from the limiters of the dividers 7. After that, the bees are able to move freely along to the multimodal hive, and the uterus of each nest, limited on four sides by double dividing lattices 19 or on one side by the side wall, the bottom of the hive, cannot contact each other.

 During periodic examinations of bees in the nests, in order to assess the strength of the families, the back walls 12 are taken out one by one, the cassettes 5 with frames 6 are removed. Then, the lid 10 and the ventilation mesh 11 of the upper nest space are opened, the frames with printed honey, printed brood are removed from the cassettes 5 Together with the bees located on the frame, they are placed in the upper nest space. In cassettes 5 to frames 6, with an open brood and bees and uterus located on them, frames 6 with sushi are installed. After that, the cassettes 5 are returned to the slot, the rear walls 12 are installed and the upper nest space is closed with the ventilation mesh 11 and the lid 10.

 After the exit of the printed brood from the frames 6, placed in the upper nest space, and filling the cells freed from bees with honey, continuous diaphragms 22 are inserted into the bottom dividers 7 of the upper nest space, which isolate the upper nest and nest spaces from each other. In this case, the bees leave the upper nest space through the evacuators 23 and return to the nests. After all the bees leave the upper nest space, open the lid 10 and the ventilation mesh 11 and remove the honey frames from the upper honey body of the nest space, pump honey out of them, and then return the empty frames back. At the next inspection of the nests, these frames are used as land for placement in the nests when expanding the nesting space.

 After pumping out the honey, during the next inspection of the nests, the diaphragms 22 are removed from the bottom dividers 7 and the bees have free access to the nest space.

 For the selection of poison open valves 13 and along the guides 20 are introduced into the separators 7 devices for the selection of poison. Then the valves 13 are closed and an annoying impulse is given. After the bees give away the poison and calm down, they open the valves 13 in turn and remove the devices with the obtained poison from the dividers 7.

 To prevent the swarming of bees in nests, steaming of bees during the selection of poison and chemical treatments of honey plants from which honey is collected; reduction of energy costs for ventilation inside the device during the period of intensive honey collection; adjusting the hygro, gas and temperature conditions inside the nests during the wintering period; respectively, the position of the removable tray 15, the hinged lid 10, the passenger barriers 17, the letts 9, the valves 13 and the continuous diaphragms 22 are changed relative to the ventilation nets 14, 11, the arrival board 16, the panel 8 and the dividers 7.

 To reduce nests and transfer bees from multimodal to monochromatic contents, continuous diaphragms 22 are introduced into the dividers 7 and the bees from the isolated space pass into the nest through bee emptying machines 23.

 To unite families, separators 7 are removed, isolating the uterus in adjacent nests. After that, a more viable uterus remains in the combined nest.

 The device provides the ability to: simultaneously unite a virtually unlimited number of bee nests into a multi-mother family; performing without disassembling the hive and invading the vital activity of bee nests, practically all operations for caring for multimodal families.

 The use of the multimodal method for keeping bees and the device for its implementation allows to reduce labor costs for multimodal bee keeping and increase the amount of honey received from each one-mother family by three or more times.

 1. Mishchenko M.P. Two-uterine content. Beekeeping, 1988, 5, p. 24 - 25.

 2. Abramova B. P. Two-uterine hive with a united brood nest. Beekeeping, 1984, 5, pp. 30-31.

 3. Yakovlev G. Beehive with their own hands. Homestead farming, 1988, 2, p. 73 / prototype /.

Claims (3)

 1. The method of multimodal keeping of bees, including assessing the strength of the family during examination, expanding the nesting space, transferring the single-mother family to the multimodal, and selecting honey and poison, characterized in that for a strong family the nesting space is expanded by creating and using the nesting space in the hive, uniform the distribution of frames with printed brood, honey and bees hatching them, and the transfer of a single-parent family to a multi-parent family is carried out by dividing the family and into the formed uterine-free nests queens live, and the strength of each nest is maintained by redistributing the print brood and printed honey with the bees hatching them between the nesting and nesting spaces.  2. A device for multimodal keeping of bees, including a multi-sectional case with a roof and a base, inside of which there are several tiers of bee cassettes on the rails and separators are placed between them, characterized in that the case is made in the form of front and rear racks vertically mounted on the base and interconnected rails located in several tiers, on each of which there is a cassette with frames and lattice horizontal and vertical dividers, made with the possibility placement of a double grid, a diaphragm and bee emptying in them, while on the front racks a hinged lid with a ventilation grid of the upper nest space and a panel with a notch are fixed, and on the rear racks there are removable rear walls against each cartridge, and valves against the dividers.  3. The device according to p. 2, characterized in that all vertical racks are made curly with internal openings for vertical dividers of nesting spaces.

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