Training bees to winter

Trains bees to winter: regulations.

Every experienced beekeeper know, how to prepare for wintering bees, a beginner should take note and strictly follow this wisdom

After the success of honey each season depends on proper and successful overwintering bees.

And in order, make it so, need to know some nuances, that come from years of intense and hard work in the apiary.

Strong bdzholosim'ya spring ensures good medosbora.

The number of working bees, their strength and endurance are directly dependent on, as well wintered hive.

To create the necessary conditions for successful wintering, Preparatory work is carried out almost the entire period of active medosbora.

A hive will help determine readiness autumn revision.

1. The main objectives of the audit autumn
2. Begin preparing for winter
3. forage
4. Using lime
5. Using ethyl alcohol
6. Autumn capacity of bee colonies
7. Build a nest
8. Therapeutic and prophylactic treatment
9. Preparation for wintering hives

The main objectives of the audit autumn

During this important manipulation, how Autumn audit hive, every beekeeper should clarify the following points.

1. Age uterus. Depends on its ability to brood sow and increase the number of nests for the winter.
2. number brood. This figure makes it possible to estimate the number of young individuals bdzholosim'yi, that will ensure a successful winter.
3. The quantity and quality of feed stocks – honey and pollen.
4. Evaluation of cell life for wintering and general insect hive – activity, contamination disease and other factors.

This overall performance, which must evaluate each beekeeper. The review hive every detail matters.

Autumn audit – This is only the first stage of preparation for winter, which makes it possible to identify all available in the hive shortcomings and describe the scope of work.

You need time to correct any shortcomings or their natural, To ensure successful wintering insects.

For, to do everything on time, just need time to conduct an audit.

The most optimal time for the middle band – end chief medosbora.

At this time you need to carefully inspect hives, to make it in good weather to complete all work, without disturbing the normal rhythm of life of bees.

Begin preparing for winter. The main stages

Wrong will claim, that training bees to winter begins only after the fall of revision.

Every experienced beekeeper knows, and the young must remember – Preparation for winter begins almost from the spring.

The question is, what to do at any time of the year. spring, except hives and care apiary honey plants for export, beekeepers hives treated with free or make new.

watching swarming processes and carefully weighed the opportunity and feasibility of separation of families.

Next come the following steps:

1. Preparation of complete feed quality.
2. Artificial quantitative and qualitative composition bdzholosim'yi, especially in summer and autumn.
3. Proper collection slot compact and comfortable living bees in the winter.
4. Processing of bees and hives to prevent and treatment of disease and pests.
5. Creating the most optimal conditions for successful wintering hives.

Each of these stages has its own rules and time frame, to be considered and adhere, to provide insect comfortable conditions for hibernation.

forage

Training bees to winter begins almost from the start of the main medosbora.

It is a light floral honey, toiler who bring the hive during this period, considered most appropriate winter food.

It is less prone to crystallization, the presence of a minimum of elements from valleys, which makes it possible to state – this honey does not spoil and does not destroy the bees.

In winter, the bees need about 2 kg. on every street, they obzhyvutsya in the formation of the club.

That is, for every need bdzholosim'yu 25-30 kg. honey and 2-3 medovoperhovi frame.

It should be remembered, light varieties of honey best suited for wintering in its microbiological and physical indicators.

Dark varieties are more degrees of crystallization, detrimental effect on bees, especially in early spring, before the first flyby.

You also need to determine the presence in honey Padi stocks, you leave your toilers.

This can be done, honey sending samples to the laboratory.

And you can handle it yourself, Having quite a few simple manipulations.

Using lime

It should take equal amounts of honey samples of feed and water reserves (spring or rainwater).

Thoroughly stir the liquid and add the same amount of lime water. The resulting mixture is heated to boiling on the fire.

If you see sediment in the form of brown flakes – reserves of honey have to completely change – Padiès present in large quantities.

This honey is not suitable for the winter and bring harm, if not death, your ability.

pay attention! Using only structured response to water. If the hand is no spring or rainwater, Take a simple wells or tap (but after filtering), place in a plastic bottle and freeze.

Then you need to defrost and carefully pour, trying to keep the sediment in the bottle. Such water will give the correct response.

Using ethyl alcohol

Honey and structured water mixed in equal amounts. Then add 10 parts 96% ethyl alcohol.

If you see sediment in the form of flakes – fed with Paddy.

Another factor, which affects the quality of fodder (honey) may be poison, which enters the hive with honey plants in the treated fields.

It may be sunflower, buckwheat, esparcet and other crops, which are like bees.

In such cases proceed as follows: slot pumped full of honey and sugar syrup is replaced.

Feeding sugar begins after preparation and warming the nest.

This procedure is carried out in early September, when the weather is warm and the bees are readily syrups and successfully processed and sealed in his cell.

Keep in mind the basic rules of the autumn feeding bees sugar syrup:

1. the concentration of the feed in the autumn due to be 50% to 60% (on 2 l. water use 3-4 kg. sugar). this is the syrup bees willing to take and process the lowest cost of energy, so that they need on the eve of the winter;
2. insects fed large portions of feed (on hive 3-5 l. – depending on the size of the family);
3. need to provide feed at night, To avoid theft. And be sure to warm (40-50º). So are willing toiler sugar and processing it easier;
4. consider feeding sugar. It must be so, as needed to replenish stocks of fodder bdzholosim'yi, equivalent dry product. A plus 25% sealing comb and processing.

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Syrup necessarily prepared in enamelware, to prevent oxidation. Water must be brought to a boil and let boil a few minutes.

Then remove the container from the heat and add sugar. Stir until dissolved, but do not boil !!!

Then the liquid to cool slightly and add concentrated acetic acid (3d of 10 kg of sugar).

Stir and let cool completely. Ask food should warm, better in the ceiling racks, Tonight.

This syrup is heated nest, activates the bees and they am completely desolate capacity.

After, as required reserves will be filled, insect must also 2-3 days to give food in small quantities (200-300 g.)

For, that they were relatively active state and were able to seal the feed comb.

Feeding sugar syrup should be done in a well ventilated hives, To avoid condensate collection.

Autumn capacity of bee colonies

Success hibernation depends on the quantity and quality of worker bees, that will warm the club and the spring can fly and provide first honey plants.

For, to increase the number of insects in preparation for winter, artificially create the conditions, when the uterus begins to sat.

You can do this at the end medosbora substitute frame, partially flooded along the edges of honey, have a good cell center.

The color should be light brown – in autumn uterus is better to lay eggs in these cells.

Feeding should be done with sugar syrup concentration spring – rarer.

Then the inhabitants of the hive impression of summer and they readily carry the usual summer job, namely – care and feeding of young brood.

Artificial bee in any case should not be late, otherwise the young will not have time to fly and die in winter.

Well, if the fall nucleuses extension work with older sows, beekeepers are harvested from nests in summer, in order to avoid unnecessary swarming.

By this time the Queen in isolation already lay eggs and grow 2-3 beyond young bees.

They can be substituted into the hives needed to strengthen families before hibernation.

Build a nest

Collecting bees nest need a warmer, not to bother them, when they already begin to stray club.

It should take into account the natural characteristics of insects, they move around the hive during the winter and therefore lay the frame on their way with food.

If the nest is enough food, and to the movement gets malomedni frame, toiler in a state of suspended animation can not overcome it perish.

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The task of the beekeeper – properly collect nest, Given the nature bdzholosim'yi.

There are several ways to favorites nests:

1. Duplex mode. This option is used for strong families, that go on in the winter 9-12 streets. The center set 2-4 frame medovoperhovi, of honey to 2 kg. Next on both sides – honey frames to complete 4 for each kg of honey. They should be as a whole, to forage was at least 25-30 kg.
2. Unilateral, or angled way. Suitable for families on serednosylnyh 7-9 streets. In this embodiment, the edge of the nest is placed polnomedni frame, and then – descending on. Locking frame should be at least 2-2.5 kg feed. Rest – in stock.
3. "Beard" – way for families or weak Nucleus. In the center of the frame set polnomedni, and then – descending on. Stock feed in the hive – 10-15 kg. To promote bees to feed framework put them "guides" – small wooden wedges, laid perpendicular.

Therapeutic and prophylactic treatment

Need protect bees from diseases and pests. bees Process better after passing the exit slot and the last brood, that all persons have been affected by drugs.

Perform thermal processing, using special guns for making drugs using smoke or steam.

Also, drugs are given together with fertilizing.

Preparation for wintering hives

When creating the most comfortable conditions means the insulation hives for the winter.

In the wild bees themselves are able to take care of it. But there they choose a first housing, that can protect them in the cold.

On apiaries beekeepers offer to his players the housing, which they consider necessary and suitable for insects.

so, take care of the warmth and comfort it must apiary owners.

If you choose an open type of hibernation – hives need to insulate the inside, and outside.

Most choose dry moss, straw, bolotyanu grass.

Not bad proved foam or polystyrene.

Top and sides of the outer side wrapped straw mats, levy cut corn stems and covered in fallen leaves vacuum.

Place to choose protected from wind and precipitation less inclined.

In this case, you need to carefully monitor the rodents, that can get in the winter to disturb the hive and the bees.

Warm room for wintering bees – beehouse, may be a ground, again and basement construction.

Most importantly in this case, – good ventilation facilities for winter hives and to maintain it above humidity 75-80% and the temperature is not below 0º.

Wherever your wintered bees, remember that, that bees prepare for winter – is your responsibility, it affects the life and health of overwintered insects.

After all, "we are responsible for those, tamed ".