Types of hives for bees

Types and kinds of hives for bees: a photo, video, description.

creating an apiary, beekeepers use different types of hives.

The choice of design depends on the application, (stationary or nomadic), directions bee (medosbor or selection), breed bees (for them to form a large family gathering and need a lot of honey hives spacious).

in addition, considered way to save a colony of feed stocks, to maintain the required temperature conditions inside the building in their climates, ease of maintenance apiary, experience of beekeeping.

Whatever the bee house design should have an internal volume, sufficient for the normal life of bees, including reproduction and storage of feed.

To protect the family from adverse external factors, be able to modification by increasing or decreasing the internal space of the hive.

When transporting or frequent crossings (kochivkah), significant indicator is the ease and speed of loading and unloading.

When servicing apiary – to perform all manipulations alone.

Currently, there are two main categories of hives.

This hives, made from natural materials and synthetic materials.

1. Types of hives from natural materials
2. Hives synthetic
3. A little history of beekeeping

Modern types of hives for bees

Types of hives from natural materials

Multiple – This vertical hive, consists of 5 or 7 buildings, or 3 cases for larval brood and honey stores for four.

Multiple main part of the hive:

1. housing, dimensions 450x375x240 mm.
2. Framework, 10 pcs, size 435×230 mm.
3. Shop Extension arm, a body size, its height is 145 mm, Frame store less – 435×155 mm. Consists of 8 framework.
4. frame hive, side is 4 wire holes for holding cells.
5. Separate grill. This device is used to separate nests with brood and store honey for.
6. Because cell lattice are worker bees, but the queen can not pass, thus pure honey comb and no larvae.

• 12-framework – vertical hive, consists of 12 framework (435mm x 300mm) and 3 shopping for honey. Beehive small, its volume is not enough for the larvae of the fertile plain of the uterus, so put on top another building. In areas rich medosbora put a third body or 4 Shopping for honey.
• lounger Beehive – horizontal beehive, is a burner, which fit on 16 to 24 framework. The nest is placed horizontally in it. 16-frame hives appointed only one bdzholosim'yi, and 20-24-frame beds can accommodate two families. Lounges recommended for beginners because of its simplicity beekeepers.
• Hives cassettes. These hives work on a dresser, one family is placed on the framework in one box. When working with one other bdzholosim'yeyu not worry. Working with bees in this hive minimum format. Tape hive made of pine, are not painted, only seeps wax. The walls are very thin beehive – 7 mm. The construction of the hive helps prevent the development and spread bee diseases.
• Logs. AT. F. Shapkin in 1990 was developed and implemented hive-deck. Life of bees in the deck is very close in nature to life. This contactless beekeeping. This hive has 5 tiers, its inner diameter is 30 cm, thus the bee hive easier to warm, to help them fight infections, developing faster in spring. Deck the manufacture and simple to use, but honey for pumping to wait longer. Probably, you can only collect the coming year, as bees spend it on making wax.

Hives synthetic

In the 70's of last century began to produce and apply polyurethane beehives (PPU) and polystyrene (PPS).

It is, such hives completely harmless to humans and bees, as materials for making them dense (100 kg / m3) and inert to external conditions.

These hives are used in Germany, Finland, Sweden, Poland about thirty years.

Cases hives PRP and PPP tough and durable thanks to Solid production.

For connections using rebate, thus no gaps between buildings.

Hives PRP and PPP is well painted, they are easy to operate, example, Due to the characteristics of the material from the body easily separated propolis.

A little history of beekeeping

Earlier beehives made of clay, from the vine, smeared with clay, straw, with cork, even stone.

At the time of Kievan Rus existing hives in a hollowed tree trunks with a hollow – board.

With hollow trees or logs produced duplyanky.

There, where there was thick trees, of sticks or straw woven basket – sapetki.

To get them honey, sapetky hacking or cut, it was very uncomfortable.

Now every beekeeper should make an informed choice, where convenient contain bees, in wood, synthetic hives, or even better immerse themselves in nature and leave the bees live in logs, engaging in non-contact or lazy beekeeping.