An important role in the vital activity of bee families and receiving a full-fledged offspring in the spring plays their feed. Widespread practice in beekeeping is spring feeding bee. With its help, it is possible to replenish the reserves of feed and to stimulate the active breakdown, which contributes to the further development of the bee family.
What is needed spring feeding bees
The experience of numerous ancestors of beekeepers indicates that the bee will thank the bee for the manifestive care. After placing bee families from the wintering and the first walking in the spring, active activity begins in the spring of the spring, because it will be necessary to increase the strength of the bee to the beginning of the honey collection period. With the appearance in their families, a sufficient amount of strong, with good operability of flight bees you can expect well-being at the apiary and good medical profession.
Spring feeding of bees will be required after revising. In wintering rooms at the beginning of spring, the temperature rises. In addition to changing weather conditions, this phenomenon may be due to the appearance of the first egg laying. If the temperature rise occurs gradually and the bees are calm, there are no reasons for superlasp families. If they are worried, they will need to transplant them on the very first spring day, waiting for a clear, favorable for the subsequent clothing of weather. The bees with it are exempted from the accumulated roast masses in the intestines and are gaining strength for later work.
Thus, the spring family is transplanted into pure hives, reduce and insulate nests. By the beginning of the spring, the bee, as a rule, was noticeably weakened. Thus, the beekeeper will need to control the absence of signs of diseases, and also make sure that the uterus lays the breakdown. After that, you can proceed to the spring feeder.
This procedure serves the following goals:
- replenish the missing feed reserves for bees families;
- stimulate the process of egg laying bee uterus;
- to conduct therapeutic and preventive measures by adding the necessary drugs to feeding.
Replenishment of feed stock in spring
After wintering, bee families are in a weakened state, their feed remains a bit. At the beginning of the spring, the weather is not sufficiently stable, there is no possibility of medical care. Gradually, some types of plants begin to produce pollen, as well as nectar, but still we should consider the weather conditions. If the bees massively go to extract food in cold weather, many of them may die. In order to avoid the emergence of such situations, the early spring should not be offered to the bees of liquid feeding, given the fact that it provokes them to fly out of the hive. As the most suitable feed for bee families in the spring, natural honey in honeycombs.
Experienced beekeepers are recommended in the process of the spring revision to put protein food in the socket - a cellular frame filled with perga. In addition to him, only breakdown should be in the nest. Rich in carbohydrate food in the form of a honey frame should be placed for a diaphragm. Thus, conditions will be created that allow the bees to effectively warm the nest with a breakdown. The feeding of honey bees will not provoke them to be prematurely flying out of the hive, while imitation of the causing of feed in the hive will contribute to the egg layout. Frames filled with honey, before feeding, the bees will be required to prepare pre-prepare, placing them in the warm room for a couple of days so that they are evenly warmed to room temperature. Next, you should put them in a box designed to carry the framework and transport to the hive. From the beekeeper you need to open the fork in the fork, slightly sprinkle the frame with warm water and place the diaphragm. It is not recommended to print the entire frame, especially above the hives. If there are wax grains fall into it, favorable conditions may arise for the appearance of a pest in the form of wax moth. For feeding, only high quality honey should be used. It is necessary to take into account that the product obtained from the sick bee families, or purchased from the unfair beekeeper, can cause an outbreak of infection at bees. In the spring, their immunity is largely reduced, and inappropriate food can cause mass extinction of bees at the apiary.
How to stimulate eggspill
In order for the beekeeper to get the optimal return on the autumn, to the beginning of the medical device, it is necessary to properly prepare bee families. At the same time, very much from a successful start in the form of intensive egg laying. If the breakdown will be laid off, the bee family will not have time to grow enough work (flight) bees. Thus, the beekeeper requires the most favorable prerequisites for the development of a bee family, including the conditions for the active laying of eggs by their uterus.
To do this, it will be necessary to provide bee families:
- protein feed by placing a frame in the socket with Perga. This field of beekeeping is rightly referred to as "bee bread". It is possible to wait for the arrivals of fresh pollen for a long time, so in the spring, it is practicing feeding to Perga. While its stock is missing for any reason, it is unlikely that the bee uterus will be launched, since she will subsequently feed the growing breakdown. From the beekeeper, it is required to provide this situation since the autumn and make the appropriate reserves of Perga to feed the bees (it should be stored in a dry and not subject to freezing);
- carbohydrate feeding, promoting abundant egg laying by the uterus. Having obtained food in the form of honey, the bees of the cormilites allocate the uterine milk and feed the uterus, as a result she proceeds to sowing. The lack of honey feed leads to its economical spending in the inhabitants of the hive, which does not differ in the best way on the quality of the egg laying. Thus, it is necessary to ensure that there is a sufficient amount of honey feed, based on at least 5 kg per little family. If you arrange this feeder behind the diaphragm, the bees will transfer honey by placing it in the free part of the frames with Perga, as well as near the breakdown;
- stimulating feeding bees in spring. In natural conditions, a certain dependence is traced - the larger volume of the egg laying is observed, the more richly the bees supply the supplies in the form of nectar, as well as pollen. In the spring, their receipt is limited due to weather conditions, so beekeepers go to a small trick, offering imitation of a natural bribe. In order to stimulate the blackening, there is a liquid feeding in the form of honey swelling or sugar syrup for feeding bees. It should be emphasized that it is necessary to offer a liquid feeder for bees only after establishing steadily warm weather. The fact is that bees perceive the receipt of such a type of feed as a motive signal to leave for departure from the hive in search of honeycombs, and in the cold can freeze. If the weather is "not flying", a lot of bees may suffer as a result of the flight. As a result of the competent use of liquid feed, it is possible to achieve several goals at once - the stimulation of egg layout, as well as the prompting of working bees to further activity.
Adding treatment to therapeutic and preventive
If all bee families either have signs of diseases, they will need to add appropriate therapeutic drugs to feed. Quite often in the spring in the bees can be observed in ease. This disease may occur for various reasons. If the bee is not sent far from the hive, but empty on it, including the arrivals, and during revision inside the hive, traces of diarrheal clusters are found, it will be necessary to take action immediately. For the treatment of bees, a drug is applied under the name nose. In addition, prophylactic measures are easy to avoid the development of nosomatosis - for this, 3 g of acetic acid should be added to sugar syrup, prepared from the liter of water and 1 kg of sugar.
Experienced beekeepers are also widely used by stimulating the development of bees supplements for feeding in the spring season:
- preparation "Apimax". This agent includes extracts of various plants with severe bactericidal and antimicrobial effects;
- for these purposes, you can also prepare self-sugar syrup on the coniferous infusion. The needles needles, harvested at the end of winter, contain a significant amount of vitamin C, and during storage in a cool room for a long time retain the maximum of useful substances. To prepare a coniferous extract, it will be necessary to grind 1 kg of pine needles with scissors, rinse them and pour 4.5 liters of water with water. Bringing to a boil, the composition should be boiled for one and a half hours. It turns out a bitter liquid with a greenish tint. When the decoction will cool down a little, it should be strain. Warm coniferous extract is required to be added to sugar syrup (200 ml of branch on 1 liter of syrup) and apply as feeding - first in a day, and then daily for 7-10 days;
- to stimulate blades in sugar syrup, cobalt is also added. This trace element is part of the means called "Pchelodar", as well as a special feed additive ACM and other similar drugs.
How to cook honey sotte and sugar syrup
Often, for any objective reasons, use for feeding bees honey in its pure form is not possible. In this case, it will be necessary to organize the preparation of feeding for bees in the form of honeyfish. At the beginning of the spring, while the bees have not yet made the first departure, and the weather does not favor it, one should give preference to thick feeding (9-10 parts of honey with the addition of 1 part of the water). Crystallized honey must be dissolved, warming it slightly in the water bath, and then mix with water. Such a full is sufficiently thick, so that the bees can easily carry it out of the feeders in the nest and replenished the reserves of feed, stimulating the utensil to the wilderness. For encouraging bees to the breakwaller in order to mining nectar, use liquid reference (in proportion 1: 1 or 1: 2 mixing honey with water). It is worth noting that liquid feeding more effectively stimulates the bee uterus to reproduction than thick food.
For the preparation of sugar syrup for feeding bees, it is recommended to use high-quality white sugar. As in the case of honeyfish, the thickness of this type of feed will depend on the goals set. For feeding the early spring, a mixture of sugar with water 2: 1 should be used for encouraging to departure and wilderness - on the contrary, 1: 2. It will be necessary to pour water into an enameled container and bring to a boil, and then add sugar and mix it thoroughly to the full dissolution, warming up on a small fire (without bringing to a boil and not allowing the burning of sugar). After that, you can remove the saucepan from the fire and cool to room temperature.
Feeders for spring feeding bees
For top dressing in the spring, it is recommended to use feeders with minor dimensions. The first feeding should dispersed for several days. If you pour an excessive amount of liquid feeding, the bees will not be able to quickly choose it, the sweet liquid will gradually cool and subsequently processes. Thus, before pouring a new portion of the feeding, it is necessary to pour out the remains of the feed remains and thoroughly wash the feeder. To top up to the remnants of the old is extremely not recommended, otherwise the fermentation of the feed and the disease of the bees will be observed. We should not save on their health, it is better to give less feed next time. For a beekeeper, it is important to track the process of nutrition - prosperous bee families will faster to endure feeding into the nest compared with chili and sick.
Ceiling feeders for bees should be deployed in the entrance to the front wall of the hive, because most of the bees in the spring period are placed there. To avoid theft at bees, it is necessary to observe accuracy in the feeding process - should not be pouring the remains of the syrup near the hive, keep the capacity with the food open, as well as scatter the frame.
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