Beehive in a hollow tree
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How to make a hive in a hollow tree
Beehive in a hollow tree: how to make, video.
Wild bees slightly different from domesticated.
They have their own features and organization of work collecting honey.
But honey of wild bees is very useful and rich in minerals and trace elements.
Usually hive in a hollow tree insects build themselves, but in some cases beekeeper can use this gift of nature for selfish purposes.
To build the hive in a hollow tree, Select high pine, it should be directed to the south.
That eye must be on the south side. Tree for board selected a meter in diameter.
Height, which is hollow, should reach 6-8 m. In ancient times believed, the higher the hive, those sweet honey.
beekeeping then it was risky, because it was necessary to climb very high on the tree.
It should guard against bites.
Why should beekeeping?
Initially, the villagers thought, that the bee – God's face, and can not be transplanted into an artificial hive.
In most cases, family, obtained using traps and luring, not good living conditions in domesticated.
in addition, in a hollow tree cool in summer, a winter warmer. Now beekeepers do not need a beehive in a hollow tree.
Beekeepers produce artificial borti.Dlya it uses segment tree trunk.
Read: Keeping bees: how, methods.
Instructions for manufacturing hollow
- Take the leg deciduous tree diameter 1,2 m.
- Spray along the segment into two halves.
- Using chainsaws and axes do within half deepen.
- Do the same with the second half.
- Cut eye.
- Make the top and bottom removable covers.
- Top prybyyte piece of iron.
- Uteplit moss board.
- Do not forget wadding.
To bee with great pleasure obzhili new nest, they can lure, using pheromones.
Read: Making cart apiary own hands.
Board can be fastened to the tree above the ground or nailed on wooden stick in height 0,5 m.
This kind of wild hives. They are placed near the edges of flowering plants.
It is worth close presence near the hive reservoir. You can insert into the slot holstyk with propolis from the old hive.
It is steeped in honey and wax, so too are excellent bait.
Now, many beekeepers, who do not want to buy bdjolopaketi, luring a swarm of wild hives in common.
To do this, put a beehive near the hollow and lubricate the eye pheromones.
