Bees in January
Bees in January: Work in the apiary.
Bees this month in a state of hibernation.
Need 2 twice a month visit to insects.
Opening the hive and inspect it without urgency can not be.
At the beginning it is necessary to enter the dark barn and hear the sound, which give insects.
If you do not hear or even barely feel the buzz, it is wintering well.
Very often in the notch can detect insects, a bad sign, it shows nozematoz or diarrhea.
Hard worker too noisy, if a hive penetrated mouse. In any case, after listening to inspect its hive.
Below you will find pidmor bees, then collect it on a white sheet and carefully inspect.
If the sheets are traces of diarrhea, it is necessary to make unscheduled circled bees.
Upon detection of residues of insects torn abdomen carry your hive to the platform and remove it from rodent.
Top fall once a week to arrange a poison bait sheds. So you will save their insect.
How to understand, that insects do not have enough food?
If you find quotes on bees make sugar crystals pidmoru the slot feed.
candied honey indicates, that insects with a huge number of food can not eat it.
Just put a little water in a beehive.
Worker wet legs are thin water and food.
If the feed is pidmor, then you have to feed the insects with sugar syrup or Kandy.
For cooking syrup must dissolve in a liter of water 2 kg of sugar.
The mixture is poured into the jar and cover it 5-7 layers of gauze. Neck tied with string.
Now hang upside down and place it on the bars. Insects will choose food.
List of works in the apiary in January:
- review bees;
- destruction of rodents;
- if necessary, the organization flyby;
- feeding and watering water insects.
pay attention, temperature should be wintering + 2-4 WITH. Not recommended to raise the temperature above 6 WITH.
When the hive very warm, active uterus lays eggs, toiler and spend a lot of energy on growing brood.
To make circled winter?
If you notice traces of diarrhea in the hive, Organize insects flying around. Of course, in winter hives You can make the street.
In the barn using a heater to raise the temperature 20 WITH. Close all windows and cracks and turn on the light.
Insects fly soon. Leave them on 4 years. After the flyby they return to Zimovniki.
Now gradually lower the temperature to + 2 WITH.
Nutrient Kandy winter
As feed can be used not only sugar syrup, but Kandy. It honey-sugar dough.
It is prepared from Acacia honey and powdered sugar. At the lights bring high quality honey to a temperature 60 WITH.
When all the grains dissolve, pour a little powdered sugar. On 1 of powder have 3 of honey.
Once the liquid stops absorbing powder, Put the weight on the table, sprinkled with sugar, and misyte 20 minutes.
The dough should not lose form and stick to hands. Divide all on pound cake.
They lay on top of the hive.