RU2450509C2 - Pattern for making queen-bee bowl (pattern of vereshchagin) - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to beekeeping. The proposed pattern for the production a queen-bee bowl is made in the form of a thin-walled spherical shell of high-elastic material and is provided with a branch tube 2.

EFFECT: invention saves time and resources.

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Description

The invention relates to beekeeping, and more particularly to the withdrawal of queen bees.

Known patterns for the manufacture of uterine bowls ranging from wooden to plastic from highly elastic material [Matovodstvo. Biological basis and technical recommendations. Compiled by prof. Dr. F. Ruttner. Budapest. Publishing House of Apimondia. 1981. - 352 p .; Vereshchagin A.N., Simankov M.K. Bowls of Vereshchagin - the first results and further development. Beekeeping, 2007, No. 5]. All of them are made in the form of a cylindrical rod with a rounded end. The wax bowls obtained during their use are used to remove queen bees by transferring a one-day bee larva into a bowl.

When trying to inoculate into such a bowl the bee larvae in the egg stage, their acceptance by the bees for uterine education is significantly less compared to one-day larvae. This is due to the fact that the bowls of the natural detuning have a narrowed neck, the diameter of which coincides with the diameter of the bee cells. Thanks to this narrowing, the uterus lays a fertilized egg in a bowl. After the appearance of the larva from the egg, the bees open the neck of the bowl and rearrange the bowl into the mother liquor for the growing larva, the future uterus.

Artificial plastic bowls and wax bowls made using cylindrical patterns do not have a narrowed neck and correspond to an older age of the larva than the egg stage. Therefore, the bees, finding eggs in such bowls instead of full-aged larvae, experience a kind of stress and throw out these, in their opinion, larvae that are behind in the development of the larvae or eat them. In practice, only those larvae remain for uterine upbringing, which the bees did not manage to destroy and which managed to pass from the egg stage to the stage of a one-day larva.

A known template for the manufacture of a wax bowl when removing the queen bee, made of low-modulus material, such as rubber (see RF patent No. 2290790. Publ. 10.01.2007, Bulletin No. 1), which we took as a prototype.

Disadvantages of the prototype: when using the template, a bowl design without a narrowed neck is obtained, as a result, the bees do not accept the bee larva in the egg stage in such a bowl for training.

The objective of the invention is to create a template, the design of which ensures the sowing of the bowls by the queen bee instead of vaccination on the uterine education of bee larvae.

This is achieved by the fact that for the manufacture of uterine bowls a template is used made in the form of a thin-walled highly elastic spherical shell with a nozzle.

A plastic bowl of Vereshchagin is used as an intermediate element, which is an integral part of the uterine bowl and to which the manufactured bowl is attached [RF Patent No. 2290790. Publ. January 10, 2007, Bulletin No. 1], which has a hole in the bottom. It is intended for inoculation of a bee larva with the bottom of the cell into which the uterus has laid an egg.

The invention is illustrated by the following drawings.

Figure 1 shows the inventive template attached to a medical syringe; figure 2 - template with a bowl; figure 3 is a template drenched in wax; figure 4 - wax coating with a hole.

Figure 1 shows a template 1 made of highly elastic material, for example rubber or polyurethane in the form of a thin-walled spherical shell, with a nozzle 2 attached to a medical syringe 3. The spherical shell of template 1, from which air is sucked, is placed in the cavity of the intermediate element 4 ( bowl Vereshchagin), and the pipe 2 is brought out through the aforementioned hole. The diameter of the shell is slightly smaller than the diameter of the bowl. Therefore, the template is supplied with excessive pressure of air or cold water, so that the diameter of the template is equal to the diameter of the bowl (figure 2).

The template thus prepared is doused with molten wax 5 (FIG. 3), which solidifies on the surface of the template and is fastened to the intermediate element 4. The resulting wax coating is a wax uterine bowl in which it is necessary to cut a hole 6 for passage into a bowl of bees and for planting the bowl with a uterus (figure 4). The hole 6 can be cut with a tube of a suitable diameter (5-5.5 mm.). Water or air is sucked out of the template after the hole 6 is made in the wax coating of the template for inoculating the bowls with the uterus and for the bees to pass to the larva. The shell is reduced in size and the template 1 for the pipe 2 is pulled out of the bowl through the hole 7.

So that the wax does not stick to the template and the bowl does not collapse when the template is removed, it is advisable to cover the template with a release agent - full of honey (a tablespoon of honey in a glass of water), dipping the template in this solution, or brush on the juice of raw potatoes.

Such a bowl can already be used to inoculate bee larvae in the egg stage. However, these bowls, if wax is covered with a hole 7 in the intermediate element, can be used for inoculation directly with the uterus.

For this, the frames with the bowls on the turntables should be placed together with the uterus in the isolation ward and, after inoculation with the uterus, transfer the bowls with eggs to the caregiver families for growing the queens.

Thus, the new template, called by the authors “Vereshchagin's Template”, allows to reduce the time for hatching, because instead of vaccinating one-day larvae, vaccination is possible much earlier, already at the egg stage, or the sowing of the bowl by the queen bee itself is possible. This saves the time of the motherboard and resources.

Claims (1)

A template for the manufacture of a uterine bowl, characterized in that it is made in the form of a thin-walled spherical shell of highly elastic material and is equipped with a nozzle.

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