Apiary

Winter inactive bees usually broken by 1,5-2 miss the exhibition of wintering. The temperature in the room rises to the center 33 ° C or more. Club becomes loose, and worker bees begin to move more freely. To increase the temperature of the uterus responds vidkladkoyu eggs. Usually, в добре зимуючих сім’ях в умовах центральних областей Украіни матки починають відкладати яйця в кінці лютого – початку березня.

In some families with wintering prosperous relaxed uterus begin laying eggs until after the exhibition and families with Zimovniki first purification flyby.

Initially queen lays 20-30 eggs a day, with the approach of spring their number gradually increases (200, 500 and 750 eggs a day).

With the advent of families increases dramatically brood bees feed consumption, due to the temperature maintenance zone brood. Consumption of food at this time doubled. There comes a critical period in the life of bees, due to the danger of overcrowding hindgut undigested residues of feed.

When the warm weather on (12 … 14 ° C in the shade) families with wintering bees endure. At this temperature, the so-called cleansing circled, during which the bee intestines freed from accumulated over the winter excrement. On the first day flyby bee intestines cleaned on average 60-80%. Completely exempt it from winter until the feces 2-3 overflights. Then the uterus increases laying eggs, bees and brood begins to grow. Family with state of winter dormancy period passes to active life.

As the P. D. Moskalenko (1988), що перезимували робочі особини медоносних бджіл не можуть стати трутовками – вони стерильні через сильний фізіологічного зносу в зимовий період, they completely atrophied ovaries. Bees do not show aggression to other people's bees and queens. Families at this time do not have their identity: they are easily integrated and well accept new queens.

The degree of deterioration of the bees to the spring growth of bees in the first month after the exhibition of Zimovniki depends on the strength of the family. Poor weak overwintered colonies slowly emerging spring, afterthought increasing the maximum number of bees, usually, This year does not provide commercial products