Spring Cleaning hives
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Cleaning hive spring
Spring Cleaning hives: because of, video.
After the winter bees are not always in good condition.
After low temperatures and high humidity in the hive is often a large number pidmoru, and traces of diarrhea.
To the family stronger, it must provide good conditions.
In accordance, procedure is necessary spring cleaning hives.
What you need to clean the hives?
In the process of cleaning you delete:
- pidmor;
- traces of diarrhea;
- mold and the web wall;
- remnants of wax and propolis.
Cleaning and disinfection of hives made the first flyby. At the beginning notch removed and cleaned himself a hole.
All work is performed chisel or scraper. It is necessary to extract the frame by frame and clean them from old wax.
How to do it, You can watch the video. Sam frame hive should be thoroughly cleaned of traces of diarrhea. For these purposes also use scrapers.
After all traces of wax from the walls removed and you coped with mold, Can start beer disinfection housing.
For this purpose, 5% formalin solution or hot lye Bottom ash. Then put a beehive in the sun.
Need, so it all properly prosoh, because in winter the wall can seep condensate.
Most immediately transplanted to a new bees, are treated hive, since you can not make it to the destination insects.
Take spare bee houses. If you do not have, In this case, take a helper, best, when one person cleans framework, and the other pulls and puts them.
Cleaning and disinfection stretch for two days. pay attention, hives audit should be conducted only, when the temperature in the shade does not fall below 14 WITH.
Read: How to make cuttings of bees – species, because of.
How to clean the hive in the spring?
Considered ideal cleaning using blowtorch. So you can be sure exactly as treatment of bee house.
Need soskablyvanyya debris after a singe frame inside the wall blowtorch. Need, the tree was brown.
This hive is left in the sun, went to excess moisture. Then you can just be confident, that no mold on the walls or wax moth.
Many experienced beekeepers recognize only high-temperature firing hives using a blowtorch.
