Training bees to winter on the street
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Training bees to winter on the street
How to prepare bees for wintering outdoors.
Only proper training bees to winter on the street will provide you with a good family and during spring medosbora.
If all rules are followed such training, you can observe a strong nest.
If not – probably, dramatically reduced the number of families.
All important work, associated with the preparation for the winter, should be done in late summer or early fall (September).
Once coming cold days, Bee forbidden to touch.
This is a direct way to easing bdzholosim'yi, and even her death.
If you do everything by the rules, pay attention to each family and takes care of bees, then keeping hives outdoors in winter will be "excellent".
Benefits wintering outdoors
Of course, wintering outdoors requires more careful maintenance and monitoring bees.
On the other hand, absolutely does not bear additional financial costs of resettlement winterers.
You can also note the fact, in the street bees comes greater number of fresh air, than indoors.
With the onset of warm days, the bees are free to get out of the hive and make first spring circled.
While wintering indoors does not provide such an opportunity before, beekeeper hives than put on the site.
Generate their life good impact on the bees: they become stronger and more resistant to disease.
Read: Inverted syrup to bees - cooking.
Terms of hibernation
Novice beekeepers and those, who first thought of the winter outdoors, pose a quite reasonable question: "How to prepare the bees to winter on the street, Spring did not get to tragic results?»
One of the main preparatory procedures can be called a need for different kinds of preventive measures.
Terms of wintering bees in the street
First note the quantity of food in the nest.
If it is not enough, then make fertilizer.
Each apiary various reasons, there is always strong and weak family.
In poor families is very little chance to survive the winter.
It is therefore advisable to combine it with a strong family in a single nest.
Probability good wintering in this case increases, but then the food will need more. Remember insulation hive.
This will create the necessary temperature conditions inside the structure and protect from excess moisture.
Also lift all hives on stands and then place, where it will quietly, calm and sunny.
Notch should be directed towards the south, The upper left open, and the lower latch is closed or controlled.
Positive impact on the wintering period of presence in the nest of young cancer, not old, survived not one winter.
Try not to disturb the life inside the hive, bees create a sense of peace and quiet.
When properly organized wintering bees do not require additional treatments for them.
But that does not mean, by doing all the activities in the fall, you can forget about their families until spring.
Read: Autumn of the apiary - preparing properly for winter.
Periodically should listen hives. If the observed strong buzz – in the hive problems.
Perhaps, your bees do not have enough food and keeps them deliver it.
Otherwise, they will not live to heat.
How to insulate the hives?
To begin to choose the right material.
Experienced beekeepers often use scrap materials – polyethylene, foam, polyurethane, sacking, old warm clothes, straw and other insulation, with fibrous structure.
If the insulation to produce the following instructions, it is good wintering in normal amounts of feed is assured:
- Hives group all in one place, as close to each other. This will help reduce the number of open walls. In accordance – area hive, that blown by wind.
- Beehive insulated from the outside, and within. On both sides of the club include insulating collateral framework, and the top cover with a warm cloth or a dense insulation. But in this case you need to take care of sufficient ventilation. At the bottom is placed bales of straw, Felt have either fallen leaves.
- Externally insulated by suitable material upholstery (polyethylene foam, polyurethane and other). It uses small nail or stapler for furniture. If you apply foam, it can completely stick to the outside of the hive.
- Do not forget about proper organization ventilation. So, if the temperature in the nest is too high, the bees will become too active, will consume more feed, and as a result – die. For proper ventilation necessary to keep an open eye. If the winter is different from frost – 15 C, then freeze eye. Then it should rozkolupaty, and make a few holes in the roof (each about half a centimeter).
- Ventilation problem solved some experienced beekeepers presence of two cells. But opening them completely, you arrange extension. Therefore, each of the cells should have a latch, which can be adjusted.
- Do not forget to organize the nest protection of mice. They also do not eat honey against winter, significantly reducing the amount of feed your bees.
If extreme cold descended, Experienced beekeepers hives advised obkopaty snow.
But it, it is not touching the walls. If this rule break, the snow easily gets in the eye and melt it.
And that – detrimental excess moisture. When the frost subside (around the end of February), Snow must be removed from the hives.
Wintering on the street and feed
If your bees will spend the winter outdoors, then be sure that, that they were about 25 kilo feed.
In this case, unlikely to have to climb out feeding in the middle of winter hive.
Read: Kandy bees – food rules.
If you find, that food is not enough or no – immediately arrange food delivery.
What problems can arise due to incorrect preparation
If the fall you have fulfilled all the requirements of the inspection and care of bees, then the family may have very serious problems, that the worst option would lead to death:
- different bee disease;
- lack of food;
- creating inappropriate conditions, Consequently – weakness family;
- high humidity due to improper insulation and ventilation;
- cancer death;
- Death due to severe frosts.
In order to avoid possible problems, Watch closely for bdzholosim'yamy.
Advance Learn, that you have winter, and spend treatment of diseases.
