Transportation of bees: beekeeper

Features of the transportation of bee families depend on a number of features: types of hives, the total power of families, the quality of the road surface, the weather, transport and much more. About how the proper transportation of bees should occur, you will learn from this article.

Main recommendations

The main thing you need to do is provide meals with oxygen access. Therefore, you will have to take care of ventilation. And if there is a strong heating of the hive at the same time, it is necessary to take care of the possibility of moving it into a closer cooling space.

When you plan to do transport, you need to do the following:

1. Remove all elements from the hive, which during the shaking can break. These are honeycombs with honey, extra and poorly fixed frames. Each such frame will kill several bees with every significant shake.
2. All that is impossible to remove, it is necessary to fix it. Frames should not pop up from grooves and even slide in them. At the same time, you need to trace so that and with the rest of the surfaces they do not come into contact. To the greatest extent, it concerns the hives with a large frame that carries a greater danger to the bee family. The small frameworks are not for the bees of great physical danger, but the roar and grinds cause anxiety. Yes, and during transportation, poorly fixed frames are much bothering, especially when you start installing them in a new place.
3. Take care not only about bees, and about yourself. The hives must be carefully and tightly closed so that the bees do not have the opportunity to get out. Even with the most careful transportation, the bee will be nervous, knocking on all sorts of people who are nearby. Even the possibility of an accident is not excluded if at one moment the hive cover will open and a pair of tens of bees will fall into the cabin. Be careful and recheck all before going to the road.
4. Over time, when the family grows, the volume of the hive also increases. Large hives are not so convenient to transport. If the carriage is carried out in the spring, you can add a trap in the socket. If the case occurs in a higher temperature, it is necessary to equip the hive in such a way that there is free space in its upper part - about ten cubic decimeters. For big families you need even more. In such an ule, it will not fit the four kilograms of living bees and there will be no special problems with transportation.
5. If you are transporting mildulent hives, they will have to install inserts. If the carriage is carried out at night, it is recommended to be sprinkled to one of the frames of a little water to cool the nest. As an alternative, you can stick to the bottom of the hive moistened to throw paper or fabric.
6. It is also very important to take care of the exchange of air. Specialists argue that in the excited state of the bee consume 160 times more oxygen, if compared with the state of calm. Any shake, car buzz and closed space strongly excitely. The metabolism is significantly accelerated. As a result, they need oxygen more. To provide a sufficient amount, it is best to impose on the cuffs of the hives of the grid frames or cut into the roof small windows and cover with a grid. You can also make narrow slots along the walls. But their width should be such that even the smallest bees could not crawl. But minus such a method is that bees can constantly fly to the slits to be closer to the air, thereby blocking the flow of oxygen in the hive almost completely.

In general, it is the right ventilation that is the key to the full and safe transportation of the hives. Therefore, ventilation devices must comply with the following requirements:

• provide the most complete air supply;
• be light and efficient;
• do not take a lot of space;
• do not require area on nomadic apiary.

Please note that if you use conventional passenger trailers for the carriage of bees, their flights in most cases are low. The hive will have to additionally strengthen belts or ropes so as not to lose them on the road. It is not recommended to cover them with an awning. Especially in hot weather, when the sun can warm the air under the cover, and the oxygen access is greatly reduced.

Using special trailers and platforms

Naturally, if there is such an opportunity, use special equipment for the transport of bee families. Sale of trailers for the transport of bees - the phenomenon is already not new. Such trailers are convenient mainly due to the fact that it is initially adapted for the transportation of the hives. The simplest of them is an even platform with a frame for a grid with a height of up to two meters. They differ mostly only in their area.

Such platform trailers are equipped with springs and the carrying capacity of most of them varies within 2 tons. In addition, they are often placed under the order, based on the desired size. It is better to take more so that later I did not have to buy a new trailer.

Naturally, the truck is the most convenient vehicle in this regard. On the closer distance, you can even use a tractor with a trailer if it is in your disposal. But even with the help of a passenger car and trailer, you can transport at once to fifteen hives. You can also use a standard two-wheeled trailer without problems, but its capacity is much lower, so you have to go back there. In addition, some of them are always under the tilt towards the car, which complicates the process of transportation. In any case, four wheels are better than two.

Whatever you transport the hive in the body of a truck or on the platform, the loading process is recommended to be carried out as quickly as possible. Best of all, if a couple of people will serve a hive, and another couple take and ship on the vehicle. So you are not so tightening bees. If for loading and unloading you will use special holders, then choose such that they will not interfere with transportation. During the transfer, sharp shakes and oscillations should also be avoided to once again not raise families. When you install hives in two rows, start from the side walls. Slip them in two floors around the edges, then fill the middle of the far wall. This will allow the most rationalize space, and the extreme ultrasound will always firmly lie down to the walls of the body. If you use a collapsible house, you need to install side elements before the loading starts, and everything else after it is completed. All free space that remains can be filled with a variety of equipment and supports for the hives. But if the places are not enough, do not advise you to fill the trailer or body close. Especially if it is closed. Do not forget about the necessary amount of oxygen.

Please note that during the loading of the hives on the trailer for transporting bees, the motor must constantly work. The fact is that the constant monotonous noise and vibration will not be so disturbed by bees than complete silence and calm after loading. If they have to carry them along a bumpy road, the cells must be installed in such a way that they are perpendicular to the road. Thus, bees will not be squeezed in the corners during the oscillations and inclust of the trailer or body. If the road is to be smooth and smooth, there are no special requirements for installation.

If a platform for transporting bees is used, and the hive is installed in several rows, they need to be further consolidated. For this purpose, you can bring down a kind of dense railing from the boards and install on sides. Similarly, you should do if you use a trailer with low sides. Each of the individual hives or their rows can also be strengthened with chains or ropes to provide greater safety during transportation.

Do not forget before leaving everything is completely repaired, whether all bees from any hive are secured and removed.

It is very important to move as much as possible to once again not to take up the bee families. If the road is smooth, you can drive at any speed. But if it is a primer or just beaten asphalt, then it is better not to rush and limit the minimum speed. At Ughab, the hives can reveal, and restless bees will fly out. It is better to choose a longer, but smooth way than to cut ughabs.

Unloading bees

When you arrive, the hives must be unloaded as quickly and install in the right place. In this case, the car's motor is also not necessary. If you notice that the bees began to get out of some hives, you need to sprinkle with water on them, and the resulting gaps clog paper or cloth.

We offer several main tips on unloading:

1. The hive can only be opened in twenty minutes after unloading.
2. Start opening the hives of stronger families. But not all at once, but after 2-3 hiles. Bees immediately begin to fly out and circling around the terrain, but quickly calm and return to place.
3. When the first bees calm down, you can open a few more with the same step. It is necessary so that bees do not flush in other people's hives.
4. If the bees are chosen from certain hives with wet and in honey, such hives need to thoroughly inspect. Probably the design was damaged during transport and requires immediate repair. Immediately, it is necessary to find the uterus, to protect the hive from theft, and already dead bees in the ground.
5. If the bees overheated, but still give signs of life, the hive you just need to manage. Pretty soon bees will be revived and will be included in the normal rhythm of life.
6. When all families finally calm down, you can install back tabs, prepare a fence and workshop.
7. All ventilation equipment can be removed only after a few hours when the collectors' bees are already started to fly out in the field.
8. At the same time, the hives can be insulated, add elave and frames.
9. If you are engaged in transportation at night, bees will fly out only the next day. At night it is recommended to cover ventilation, but do not remove it.

Among the general councils should also be said that it is best to transport bees early in spring when the flowers give the greatest number of nectar. In principle, it is not scary if it is necessary to fly to the long distance. This bees quickly get used to it. But it should not be in a hurry from transportation. If the air temperature is still unstable, and there are few colors yet, it is worth having to stand. Optimal time for transportation - when ten percent of plants have already begun to bloom. And, of course, if you have the opportunity to buy a trailer for transporting bees, it needs to be done. Thus, you protect yourself from a number of additional problems, save all families, and transportation will take a minimum of space. You can also ask for familiar beekens to take such a trailer, platform for a while, or take advantage of rental equipment in store salons in your city.