The beginning beekeepers quite often face death of bees in the winter. Reasons much: there was not enough honey, cells grew mouldy, the uterus and so on died. That it did not occur, it is necessary to be able to prepare bees for a wintering correctly.
It is required to you
- - sugar syrup;
- - Bipin.
Instruction
1. Begin training of bees for a wintering since August. At this time the main medosbor already comes to an end. You need to carry out audit of bee families and to look how many at them in honey cells. Be guided by the fact that the normal wintering will require not less than 20-25 kg of a forage on an average pchelosemyyu. Look at cells if they are sealed from above on a palm, it will be enough. Of course, it is necessary to make the amendment that bees still need something till winter is and if weather is bad and they will not be able to bring nectar, then winter stocks can be reduced significantly prior to the wintering. Also you watch that honey was not stolen by bees thieves from other beehives.
2. The second important point of training of bees for a wintering will be rasplod. The fact is that only those bees who carry nectar during a medosbor and feed larvae, will not live up to spring, they already exhausted the potential. Therefore it is so important to track that the uterus sowed a framework in August. Those bees who will go to a wintering will also be brought from these larvae and will be able to live till spring. They in a beehive will not work.
3. Collect a beehive to a wintering, for this purpose during autumn audit remove all low-copper framework, put in exchange full-copper which are better for laying up during a medosbor in advance. Remove also that framework which superfluous, in other words on what bees do not sit, except two extreme - from pergy and honey. Warm a beehive from above and from sides. However, I shift a nest to the left edge and I warm cotton pillows only from above and on the right. By the way, replacement of the third or fourth part of honey by sugar syrup is useful if you are not sure that honey in a beehive not padevy. On padevy the bees will die in the winter. It often gathers closer by fall, at the same time in a beehive of a bee bring not nectar, and sweet allocations of plants from leaves.
4. Treat pselosem before a wintering from varroatosis. This is a tick who will disturb insects that will cause their excitement in a beehive in the winter. And if bees worry and rustle, they will begin to consume many forages and will not be able to hold gut contents, in other words, oponositsya directly on a framework. Such families if do not perish in the winter, then in the spring very weak and cannot increase force to a medosbor. There is a lot of varroatosis medicine, I apply Bipin. I part 1 ml of medicine of 2 l of warm water and I water with the syringe bees between a framework. On 1 small street I use 10 ml of solution. I carry out processing by Bipin in the Urals at the end of October beginning of November when on the street about 0th OS. Repeatedly - in a week.
5. Put bees in a zimovnik at resistant weather with a negative temperature to - 10 wasps, but do not tighten with it, otherwise at a hard frost of a bee will not die, but under a cover of beehives hoarfrost from breath of insects is formed. Then in a zimovnik it will turn into dampness and a framework with cells can grow mouldy, and honey to begin to ferment.