RU2221420C2 - Apparatus for queen breeding and obtaining of mother liquor - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: apiculture. SUBSTANCE: apparatus has artificial pan carrier made in the form of plate and positioned in hive case above bee family nest on supporting members. Artificial pan attachment members are formed on lower side of carrier plate, said members being made in the form of openings for receiving of pan pins. Apparatus is further provided with partition, having portion defined by carrier plate. Partition is adapted for dividing space above bee family nest into upper part with feeder and lower part, which is communicated with hive frames. Passages leading from lower part into feeder are made only in pan carrier plate to provide for full feeding of larvae in pans. EFFECT: increased efficiency in queen breeding, improved quality and quantity of queens and mother liquor. 3 dwg

Description

 The present invention relates to beekeeping and can be used to remove queen bees and obtain royal jelly.

 The purpose of the invention is to improve the quality and quantity of excreted uterus, increase the amount of royal jelly and increase the productivity of the beekeeper.

 A known device for removing uterus or receiving royal jelly is a grafting frame (1. Krivtsov NI and other beekeeping. 1999. 2. Malkov VV and other output of queen bees. 1994).

 To withdraw the uterus or to obtain royal jelly using the grafting frame, the brood honeycomb is removed from the nest housing of the dehydrated hive and artificial bowls with eggs or young larvae are placed on the grafting frame, which are carriers of artificial bowls. Feeding larvae in artificial bowls on the vaccination frame are mainly occupied by those nurse bees that are in this “well”, therefore the number of bowls on the vaccination frame is limited by the ability to feed the larvae with this composition of the nurse. Therefore, to increase the number of obtained uterus or royal jelly, more than one grafting frame is used. But the increase in the number of vaccination frames is associated with a decrease in the number of nesting frames (for the formation of "wells") with their brood and with nurse-bees attracted to this brood. Therefore, the thermal regime with an increase in the number of vaccination frames in the area of their placement deteriorates.

 The old method of Pekhachek-Hopkins is also known (2), when the uterus was hatched on a regular nesting cell with young larvae, in which only one side with pre-thinned cells was used. The honeycomb was located horizontally above the frames of the female housing, thinned side down. The bee family fed a large number of queens. The method is associated with the laborious preparation of honeycombs and the destruction of these honeycombs. There is no device here, therefore, the prototype of the proposed device is a device with artificial bowls and with their carrier in the form of a grafting frame.

 The purpose of the invention is to abandon the formation of "wells" that reduce the nest of the bee colony, and also to provide good access to the nurse-bees located in all streets of the nesting building to brood in artificial bowls. This goal is achieved by the fact that a device for withdrawing uterus and receiving royal jelly, having a carrier of these bowls is not located in the "well", but above the nest of the bee colony. Placing the carrier of the bowls outside the nest contributes to less anxiety of the bees when servicing the device, and a more favorable temperature regime is provided above the nest for larvae in the bowls.

 To achieve this, the carrier of the device’s bowls is made in the form of a horizontal board, on the lower side of which there are fastening elements for artificial bowls on it (for example, holes for pins of artificial bowls) directly or through transitional parts.

 The device also includes supporting elements (for example, slats, corners) that ensure that artificial bowls are placed on them in the hive of the carrier in a horizontal position above the nesting frames, from them at a distance that ensures placement of the queen cells, the possibility of serving these queen bees with feeding nurse and the exit of the queen from these mother liquors.

 Supporting elements can be attached to the walls of either a separate hive housing mounted on the nest housing of the hive, or a special nest housing with an increased nesting space, or a roof cover. Another option for attaching support elements is to the carrier of artificial bowls. In this assembled form, the carrier of the bowls with supporting elements is installed on the nesting frames of the hive without being attached to the walls of the hull. There may be other options for attaching support elements.

 In order to attract more bees to the artificial bowl placement zone, the device includes a partition dividing the nesting space of the hive into the lower part connected with the nesting frames of the hive, and the upper one with a feeder placed in it. At the same time, the carrier of the bowls is part of this partition. In the carrier of the bowls, between the places of fastening of the bowls, passages (holes, channels) are made, providing a transition from the lower part of the nesting space to the feeder and vice versa. Therefore, the bees, visiting the feeding trough, visit the bowls, which contributes to the good nutrition of the larvae in the bowls.

 Figure 1-2 schematically shows a variant of the proposed device for the withdrawal of queens. Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a separate housing with a device, the supporting elements of which are attached to the walls of this housing. Figure 2 is a cross section along aa. Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of a special case, in the enlarged nesting space of which there is a device for outputting the uterus with supporting elements attached to the carrier of the bowls.

 They show: a - the hive’s nest housing, b - the separate hive housing, in which the device for hatching the uterus is located, c - the artificial bowl, d - the warming pillow, e - the passages to the feeder, w - the hive frame, and - the special hive housing with an increased nesting space, where the device for the output of the uterus is located.

 The device contains: 1 - the carrier of the bowls, 2 - the feeder, 3 - supporting elements (in the form of trims and angles), 4 - the elements of the partition (trims, plates, carrier of the bowls).

The work on the removal of the uterus and the production of royal jelly using the device for the removal of the uterus and the production of royal jelly is carried out in the following order:
The carrier of the bowls 1 is removed from the housing of the hive where the device is installed, artificial bowls of eggs are placed on its lower side at the age of 2-2.5 days; -12 hours to this hive. The feeder 2 of the device is filled with honey full. Bees of this family examine egg bowls and wait for the appearance of egg larvae. As soon as larvae appear from the 3-day-old eggs in the bowls, the bees immediately begin to provide them with food, in quality and quantity required for the uterine larvae.

 The selection of queen cells to obtain royal jelly is made after the larvae have reached the age of 3 days. When the uterus is withdrawn, after the queen cells are sealed, they are enclosed in cells and placed in a thermostat or in a strong dehydrated family in anticipation of the release of the uterus.

 So, using the proposed device, you can get from the bee colony a large number of high quality queen bees or a large amount of royal jelly while reducing the complexity of the work performed.

Thus, the use of the proposed device for the withdrawal of uterus and the production of royal jelly will provide great economic benefits due to the fact that:
a) in the nest housing of the hive there is a large number of brood of bees (frames with brood for the formation of "wells" are not removed), and consequently, a large number of bee-nurse;
b) the bee-nurse of all the streets of the nesting housing are connected to the brood feeding in artificial bowls in the device, because these bowls are placed above all the streets of the nesting building;
c) the presence of feed in the feeders placed above the raised mother liquors creates a stream of bees carrying feed past these mother liquors, which helps to improve their nutrition;
d) raised mother liquors are in the most stable and comfortable zone of temperature-humidity regime - above the nest of the hive;
e) anxiety and violations of the temperature-humidity regime of the bee family when performing these works are minimized;
f) a number of labor-intensive operations for the preparation of "wells" is excluded from the technological process.

Claims (2)

1. A device for withdrawing uterus and receiving royal jelly, having a carrier of artificial bowls, characterized in that the carrier of artificial bowls is made in the form of a circuit board, on one side of which there are fastening elements on it of artificial bowls, and is equipped with supporting elements that ensure its installation in the hive in a horizontal position above the nesting frames, at a distance from them sufficient to accommodate the queen cells, the possibility of serving these queen bees with nurse-bees and the exit of the queen from the queen cells. 2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that it includes a partition dividing the nesting space of the hive into a lower part communicated with the nesting frames of the hive, and an upper part with a feeder placed in it, and in the carrier of the bowl, which is part of this partition , between the places of fastening of the bowls, passages are made, ensuring the transition of bees from the lower part of the nesting space to the feeder and vice versa.

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