Mice in the apiary – how to get rid
If a mouse hive to deal with them? Abatement of mice in the apiary.
Mice – is the most common bee enemy, which causes apiary great damage during the winter.
In the bee nest can parasitize different types of mice, including field, housework, etc..
Mice get hives in the fall and winter because notch or slit in the roof and dnah.
This is especially observed, When hives old and casually made.
There are several types of mice: house, forest, field, shrews, mice babies, etc..
Under favorable conditions, they can multiply rapidly. Two or three-month females are able to produce litter 4-8 of young 3 to 8 times per year.
The greatest harm mouse applied during wintering bees. Climbing the fall in hives and built there their nests (often a hive insulation materials: pillow, mattresses), they eat in winter copper, Pergamum,, suş, dead, and sometimes live bees, destroy cells and cause family concern, ruzultati in which winter bees hybnut.
The bees can not stand the smell of mouse cells and not rebuilt, damaged mice, but not the uterus lays eggs in the cells of the mouse scent.
Animals gnaw and insulation, wall hives, What cause serious damage economy.
Mechanical means to kill mice in the apiary
To prevent bees from mice notch closed metal barriers, carefully lay gap.
WordHex keep out of reach of the bees indoors. In winter houses rabbit hole cover with clay from broken glass, the floor is poured layer of dry sand.
To kill mice and other rodents used mousetrap, trap, trap, and attract natural fighter – hedgehogs and cats, use bait of bran, bread, grains, etched or poisons bakkulturoy, causing murine typhus.
Shelves for beehives arranged not closer 30 cm from the wall. To attach the rack voronkovydni shields made of tin.
Hives keep in constant serviceability. autumn, Soon after passing the nests for the winter, closed lower notch special metal barriers, and the top – wire mesh. In the insulation should not be ears of grains.
Solid tin
Very common are mechanical devices, a barrel, pit covers from spinning freely, but in most raznomanitni mousetrap, masher, trap, administers and traps.
If desired, the beekeeper can make their own traps very simple device.
In the corner wintering dig a hole with a diameter inlet 75 cm, depth and diameter on the bottom 100 cm.
In the pit, put a little straw or chaff and put pottery with bait, veiled metal bars.
Once the mouse can not take the bait and get back. To trap can be used conventional barrel.
It should be slightly buried in the ground and pour water to half. Then attach the Incoming he freely and easily on its axis obertayuchuyusya cover with bait.
The action of this trap-barrel seen in Figure.
A trap for mice
A trap for mice: 1 – pit with bait; 2 – barrel with a rotating cover
To destroy odor, which deters mice, the water barrels poured a few drops of anise oil or ukropnoho.
Chemical ways to deal with mice should be used with caution. In the fight against mice should be used as their natural fighter: ferrets, caresses, weasels, owls, Looney, Buzzard, dogs, cats and hedgehogs.
Last useful in the apiary and wintering at any time of the year. For greater efficiency of these measures should not apply any one of the following methods, and multiple.
Chemical destruction of mice in the apiary
Bait for rats and mice
storm – bait for rats and mice and is ready for use.
The drug is designed to kill mice and rats in the rooms and in the immediate vicinity of the exterior walls of buildings.
Excellent also used in stores, kiosks, industrial and residential premises, warehouses.
Pellets mumifikuyuchym effect for the extermination of gray rats and house mice.
"Storm" is:
- New technology;
- easy-to-use form;
- specially selected components of the feed and hormonal attracting substances;
- contains 0,005% bromodiolonu and bitreks – bitter substance, protects from accidental use by people;
- mummification stops decomposition of dead rodents;
- not discourages rodents and they die within a few (3-7) days after consuming poison.
The drug "Storm" harmless to animals.
Bagheera or a similar drug. Bagheera – This bait for mice in bricks.
Bagheera in the form of paraffin pellets are an effective means of chemical rodent control (crazy, mouse, voles).
Poisonous bait Bagheera effective long-term harmful effects of keeping the remains attractive (has good poyidayimost).
The active substance bromadiolone 0,005% leads to disruption of the blood clotting mechanism.
Death occurs in rodents 3-5 days after eating the bait.
Similarly, drug use and i. Very practical and effective, enough to lay a couple of bricks under the cover of the hive (snow) and in a few days – “harvest”.
EFFECTIVELY One of the methods to control mice in the apiary. And the price is low – 12 UAH.
You can also sprinkle poison grain. Currently drugs Stays.