As winter bees in the hive
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As winter bees in the hive, preparation for hibernation.
It is interesting to know, as winter bees?
About the fact, making insects in summer and there are many details.
Bees – real toiler.
They begin busily fly, just look out the sun, and hiding in the hive at nightfall.
And all day they work hard. Flight bees collect nectar, pollen, creating fodder supplies for the whole of bees.
During harvesting, they simultaneously pollinate plants, flying from flower to flower.
Others of their fellow, working young bees, are working in the hive: it supports the procedure, clearing debris from his home, build cells and progeny growers.
They also process the nectar and pollen. During this period, even drones are not useless – they do fertility.
But come autumn and honey plant completely shed. The street gets colder.
Winter creeps closer. What is the deal with bees in the cold season and what happens in the winter in their home – beehive?
Bees sleep? No, but now their life is subject to different scenario.
Training bees to winter
From that how well perezimuet bee family, it will depend on welfare in the new season.
Long the cold months they spend in the hive, leaving it. Therefore it should be considered and done in advance.
How do bees hibernate
Before wintering insects begin preparation in autumn, when the temperature drops in nature stops medosbor.
By this time, bees have made major feed stock in the form of honey and pergi, who will feed them through the winter.
The quality winter forage is important.
Honey should have time to undergo fermentation, insects have its seal.
Only a product suitable for use in winter. If food is lost or not, bees die.
In winter you need bdzholosim'yi 12-16 kg of honey and 5 kg of pollen. Strong bee family is reduced with decreasing medosbora, then completely terminated egg-laying queen.
Last uterus cells sows in the middle of the hive, the south side, near the notch.
Read more: How to cook the syrup to bees for the winter.
This is where the warmest place. After the brood these empty cells tolerate insects feed stocks, placing them at the center of the nest.
The preparation process clearly visible from the outside. Working bees lay cracks in the hive propolis, reduce the size in the same way cells, if they, they think, great.
Such actions insects aimed at keeping heat in the winter hive, saving it needed microclimate.
for, cold, dampness inside do not contribute to a comfortable wintering. Because it is so important to prepare your home best.
In the winter are only queen, disengaged young this year works brood and a small number of old bees.
As winter bees in the hive
After the colony medosbora expels drones.
They no longer needed for the next season, wasting precious insects feed on them will not be.
The procedure for the expulsion of drones as a sign, that the bee family is getting ready to meet winter.
Sign in hive bees do not protect. At this time, they are increasingly at the center of the hive.
This is the warmest place. On a clear day, If the hive well warmed by the sun, insects flying around doing last.
So they fired intestine. In winter, the bees do not caca. Next they will have circled the spring.
Read more: Cooking bees to winter in a greenhouse.
The more marked falls thermometer, so the bees are less mobile, going to comb tight, begin to form a club.
Wintering bees
In winter leave hives in specially prepared for this room, in beehouse, in on open space.
Wintering bees in the street
At this time the insects do not fly, but quietly sitting on the comb.
How do bees hibernate, and what happens in the hive during this period?
Insects do not fall into suspended animation, do not spend the winter months in hibernation.
But their activity falls, All life processes are slowed down, the need for food decreases.
The energy spent now on developing and maintaining the temperature in the center of the club.
Here it is 15 – 18 ° C regardless of external parameters.
To keep warm in winter in the hive, Bees get in a bunch, which is called Bee Club.
In the center is the queen, which protects bee family as the most important of its members.
Read more: Proper preparation for wintering bees – beekeeper.
The inner layer consists Bee Club, constantly moving. Due to muscular work generates heat, allowing all warm, who are there insects.
The outer surface layer forms a cluster of bees still, placed as close to each other.
This method allows you to maintain a constant level of heat inside. Periodically insects are reversed, keep warm.
The club formed in place of the release of the last brood, in the center. Gradually, he moved up the hive, there, where warmer.
As honey bees prepare for winter
Also disappearing and feed stocks, as the movement of insects Cell.
Some bees can take extreme frame, but these little individuals.
Lowering the temperature causes the insects to move single tightly to the club, otherwise they will die.
Positive temperature inside the bee only support the club, beehive fully heated.
So they minimize the cost of feed, costs of heat. The temperature at the club never falls below 13 WITH.
If it rises above, bees become more active, increase food intake, the temperature inside rises to the club 25 WITH.
When insects calm down, mark again drop to previous 13 WITH. On the wintering prosperous shows even quiet hum, that is heard from the hive.
Read more: How to make a nest of bees in the winter.
Training bees to winter video
That's all that, as winter bees. Insects are sitting in the hive, eat honey, each other warm body motion and waiting for spring, time, when they can again take care of business.
To be successful wintering only need a good warm house, quality healthy food and strong population.
