Feeders for bees with their hands – There is nothing easier

Feeders for bees do with their hands from available materials.

Meaningful and quality of life of bees depends not only on weather conditions, and comfortable housing proper preparation for hibernation.

Feed, that bees must have year-round – here is one of the secrets of success.

If in flowering melliferous concern about food supplies falls on individuals working in the hive, then in the off-season and in preparation for winter feed should ask beekeeper.

A successful breast-feeding are important – adaptation, in which nutrient mixture is poured and from which bees can easily retrieve it.

In specialty stores in assortment of various devices for this purpose.

But feeders can be successfully done with their own hands, using simple and available materials, are there in each sector.

1. Feeders with plastic bottle
2. hives feeders
3. Ceiling feeder
4. Foreign feeder

Feeders with plastic bottle

Incrementally consider the process of production feeders. Most optimal packaging is a plastic bottle with a dark material capacity 2 l.

It is the strongest and corresponds to the volume of feed, which is set to bees at a time

1. Using a nail. It should be no more than the diameter 1.4 mm. Of these holes insects can seamlessly choose syrup and not "drown" in liquid. Bottle laid on its side with one hand doing a hot nail holes. They come out of the edges zaplavlenym, which is very good for insects. What is thicker syrup – the more holes to be. But if you make a few extra, they can simply stick tape.
2. Before filling bottles of syrup should seal all openings with tape. This simplifies filling a bottle, and installing racks in the hive.
3. In doing beehive ceiling hole in the form of the bottle, but slightly smaller, not to capacity “failed "in the frame.
4. Set the feeder into the hole and only then remove the tape. Holes must be below. The syrup is sticky and will not be very hard on her follow, and bees can easily take it for recycling.

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Feeders plastic bottles used as ceiling. It is most suitable for autumn feeding, as the concentration of syrup around 60% and it will not come out due to high viscosity.

Spring syrup is a liquid feeder and this is not relevant at this time.

It has many advantages, to be considered before, how to make a choice in favor of a modification of the required adjustment:

• low cost;
• ease of manufacture and operation;
• easy to clean;
• the ability to use a hive with a low hood;
• possible to adjust the feed rate syrup by regulating the number of holes.

hives feeders

Feeders, are installed inside the hive, used for spring or Autumn feeding bees, especially during adverse weather conditions, as long insects are not able to "go out". Make them really just their wood or plastic.

Framework

This feeder is a wooden container, that the length and height meets the frame, but slightly wider.

She hung on special hooks inside the hive, pour sugar syrup, and the top grating is placed or raft, to insects drowned in sweet liquid.

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Its set of frames. Usually make them two or three sections, one of which is designed to release the bees, while others are filled with food.

The advantages of such feeders is, it overrides the insect out of the hive during feeding.

Ceiling feeder

This particular type of device for feeding bees in the middle of the hive.

It is a rectangular box with multiple compartments inside, are provided with vertical partitions and openings for the passage of insects.

The central compartment is placed feed compartment, equipped bars for convenience food intake.

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The advantage of this type is, that it can be used to conduct additional feeding even in winter, as the club will own heat to warm the syrup and it will keep a comfortable temperature for eating.

Foreign feeder

Many beekeepers especially do not bother about the external feeders, using conventional banks.

It's just, but very effective. Insects are pleased with this food containers.

Do you need the same, as when watering chicken.

Half-liter or liter jar filled with syrup, cover plate and overturned.

Syrup will flow out of banks rim plates and bees take it without problems.

This feeder is used in spring or summer, when given liquid syrup, so that its viscosity does not hurt to come out of the banks and get directly to forage insects.

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Developing an adaptation for feeding bees own hands could and should, If you want to feel a real beekeeper, who cares about his players.