Many of the senior generation of beekeepers support bees in large-volume beehives - plank beds, achieving good results. In the offered article the beekeepers can get acquainted with one of old methods of keeping of bees, it can assist in practical work.
The method provides keeping of bees in beehives - the plank beds adapted for keeping of each family with two uterus - assistants.
In the middle of a beehive against the chief worker a letka provide strong family, and on both sides from it - on a layer.
To exclude cases of wandering of bees, it is desirable to paint front walls of beehives in different colors. Offices for layers occupy bees in 30-35 days prior to the beginning of the main thing a bribe. Act this way. From the fetal uterus discarded for the purpose of replacement, but still capable to work, form layers. Serially take out each frame from a nest and shake from it bees equally in that and other office, watching closely that together with bees not to shake also a uterus. Cells with rasplody at once return in a nest, and a part of a frames with honey place in layers. From a frame on which there was a uterus the bees are not shaken.
After this procedure of a nest of maternal family and layers, substitute letka in sidewalls close and open, giving the chance to leave through them to flight bees.
3-4 hours when the meeting of old bees ends with later, start distribution to layers of a fetal uterus in sections. At the same time nests of layers complement with a framework of sushi and honey, pergy and water.
In the evening when the family calms down, a uterus release, and by the end of the first day the deaf partitions replace with a dividing lattice, side letka close.
Simultaneous work of three uterus in one beehive, sharp increase in volume of a nest of maternal family and years of bees in the general letok - the factors which are positively affecting its growth and activity and is negative - on manifestation of an instinct of swarming.
With approach of the main thing a bribe, not strong, but long, a uterus - assistants are imprisoned in sections and placed in average small streets of a nest. This operation is of great importance since only thanks to it bees within 8 days usually do not put svishchevy matochnik. After this term from the beginning of a medosbor of a section with a uterus and dividing lattices delete, and on a beehive at the same time put shop with a set of reinforced sot. The family prepared thus meets main bribes with huge flight reserves and a large number of a printing rasplod and therefore honey collects much more those which contained without uterus - assistants.