Protecting bees

Protecting bees from ants, mice, wasps and tits.

Every day honeybees contact with the environment, so they are constantly threatened by enemies and pests.

Protection from insect predators and parasites – one of the main Problems beekeeper to save bee colonies and apiaries as a whole.

1. Who should fear bees
2. Fighting ants
3. Mice
4. axis
5. Sinitsy

Who should fear bees

The greatest threat to normal existence and development of insects and their families in a period of intense medozboru are different kinds of pests.

The main danger comes from:

• ants;
• slugs;
• wax moth;
• Butterfly "dead head";
• hornets and wasps;
• mice;
• all small rodents.

Among the birds dangerous tits, sparrows, bee-eater, Bee-eaters, shrike.

Fighting ants

You will need only time to rescue from intruders, that steal honey, Bees attack, brood and kill pathogens can infect.

It is advisable to apply:

1. Salt. brine (1 l water + 200 g of salt) process the soil around the hive, and the bottom inside sprinkle with salt.
2. Fresh leaves of tomatoes. They smell deters insects, because some of these letters can be expanded around the bee nests.
3. Mustard. Stability allows Mustard get rid of ants permanently. Pretty soon this powder sprinkled around beehives.

Mice

Protecting bees from mice reduced the use of traps, misholovok, traps.

It is necessary to eliminate hives in all the cracks and holes. Protection from these and other rodents should be especially robust in winter.

Otherwise, penetration into the hive, they can greatly harm.

Winter eat bees, honey and destroy the cells of. For mice extermination it is advisable to involve domestic cats.

axis

Protecting bees from wasps and hornets also is essential to preserve the apiary.

The risk is Os, they attack the bee, get into their homes and steal bee feed stocks.

Better to kill a wasp female spring, using homemade traps with bottles of honey solution.

This kind of protection against annoying pests. A better hornet's nest destroyed by spraying or pouring hlorofos sirovuhlerodom.

Sinitsy

Protecting bees need of tits late autumn and winter. Beak banging on the wall of the hive, They chat and eat bees vypovzayuchyh.

Dispose tits should not, but they need protection. To save the bees, should discourage these pesky birds.

It can be on the os with a metal or nylon mesh canopy.