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Beekeeping operations that treat their bee colonies

Are operations or various activities which carried out by the beekeeper for the purpose of subjecting bee colonies to his will and guidance for the production of Freddie them in time at full production capacity and cost, as well as include all the ways in which resorted to to keep him on the confessions of weakness or collapse - a ticking time operations in the sense that each including the time for their performance throughout the year. Those processes include: examination of bee colonies - Nutrition - prepare communities for
the flood season - Partition - annexation - Maintaining the bee colonies from cold sound and extreme heat - renewal of queens.


I will speak in this review for examining bee colonies.

Check denominations: -

Screening process denominations are regularly patrol throughout the year and it is always to find out the status of communities and confidence and the possibility to address the shortage or defect, if any, in a timely manner.

Screening purposes: -

  1. Show Queen and ensure safety Queen usually are found on the middle set of disks in many cases the examiner can not be found, especially in the busy bees communities, but there are signs it can be inferred by the presence or lack thereof, such as:   a) the presence of eggs and small larvae and brood and calm bees.  B) If the queen bee is missing it evidenced by the lack of eggs and worker bees agitation and rapid movement on disks and on the cell door.  C) if they are missing as well as evidenced by the presence of queens houses in various stages of growth.
  2. Ensure the safety of bees and brood diseases and parasites.
  3. Check disks containing the food stock and assess the need for the community of it.
  4. Cleaning windows and walls and floor of the cell propolis and cut off excess wax and purification beehive of wax worms (butterfly moth), if any, and her execution.
  5. Examine the manifestations of division bees range of houses and destruction of property brood male, if any.
  6. Knowledge of community conditions and assess the need for wax combs empty or origin had to add a new fund for tablets horny if the first round was filled out or reduced-free number that are not fully covered by bees.
  7. Order discs brood cell placed so as to be adjacent to each other in the middle of the Education Fund, and the arrangement has a great impact on the brood heating and in the organization of work within the cell.

Dates of examination sessions:

  1. Preferably examination denominations starting from ten in the morning to three in the afternoon and in the summer period could examination period for a fourth and a half stretch evening, a period in which the bees out of the cell.
  2. Chooses to examine Awakening Times moderate wind and prevents the examination if the temperature rose from 35 ° C and if dropped traditionally heat for 10 percentage not open beehive, fearing that happens to his lap any damage.
  3. It advised not to examine cells in abundance such as flood season or immediately after, fearing the spread of the phenomenon of theft between bee colonies.
  4. If the dissolved soon from the highway bee colonies scan at a time when faithful interrupted traffic as much as possible.


        To determine the examination sessions in different seasons should keep in mind that the Queen's life cycle from the date of laying eggs until the advent of full insect (the queen bee of the Virgin) 15 days on average for fear of be queens and the occurrence of

     Division of bee colonies: the screening process is being conducted in the division season (February to June) once a week either in the flood season this session then goes on to ten days. Between in the winter can be up between each other and examination process from 20 to 30 days with the observation that the examination is in bright sunshine warm days only moderate winds. This is to be borne in mind that the business conducted by the beekeeper twelve screening vary according to the seasons Tie degree of community activity and an environmental conditions prevailing in each chapter.

Examination prior to and during flood season: -

         Bees do not be tempted twelve flood season to stinging especially if the flood season rich in order to concern to continue to collect nectar and storage and shouting based task scans that provide community their need of the basics of wax to accelerate built, preferably placed on both sides of the tablets brood and not them so as not to hinder the movement of the Queen move between brood frames and put the eggs in the vulnerable communities can provide them with wax tablets of the previous year or waxy foundations already built in the same year from other cells. And is usually the order of disks in the flood season in a particular way fixed .. See the how to arrange them from here.

Examination at the screening: -

        Honey mature in wax disks known to be sealed with a layer waxy thin and if you do not also notes that the sealed disks have honey that her talents heavy than usual and if rocked such disks and is in a slanting position over the community, the honey does not flow out of her eyes six-party unlike the case in honey immature, the guardianship of the water and when the tendency of these discs from the six-party flaking honey eyes, and in this case it is left for a week or ten days until maturity.in this case it is left for a week or ten days until maturity.

Examination in the fall: -

        When examining denominations in the fall requires knowledge of the amount of honey and pollen stored it until the end of next winter's Cafe, and the workout is easy to estimate the amount of inventory enough of them roughly the lifting of the cells of the legs and is in place and if the amount-food insufficient should the beekeeper rectify the matter and feeding bees the solution diabetes and pollen stored at the beekeeper himself that he had a sufficient amount or even to one of the best alternatives pollen composition preferably vehicle of natural and manufactured materials be. In general, the community must contain 3 or 4 tablets honey are placed on both sides of the disks that brood.

        Knowing the amount of bees in the community without lifting the disk drives, through harm to the education of the highest disks room if spotted an abundance of bees and driven by This indicates that a strong community, and the unity of measure the strength of a variety of honey bees, is (wax disk covered with bees from both sides), weak sect contain the amount of bees covering from 5-7 disks, medium and solve community covers from 8-10, pinch either strong community solve covers of 11-15 tablets, either more than that it is considered very strong.

        Because in the autumn intense wasps attack on communities, especially vulnerable ones, and the occurrence of the case of theft, so it must reduce as much as possible of open cells unless necessary with narrow cell door, and examine these cells usually in this period every two weeks, and during the end of this chapter raise non disks Covered bees to vaporized and stored until needed, and must work to include weak or communities that have lost its queen to strong communities or annexation of several denominations weak together so that they can pass next winter safely.

Examination in the winter: -

        You must reduce the cells examined in the winter as much as possible as long as the appropriate food quantities are available, and if he is forced beekeeper for the screening process should be in the warm sunny climate, and must change the inner cover made of wood with a covering of thick cloth or bag made from trees, rice, to reduce the vacuum, as well as air currents in order to be to maintain the range of cold or frost .., and must pillows wintering mode, and change the cell base to winter rise, scan and communities in this chapter usually every month or twenty days if deemed situation.



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