Many beekeepers are faced with the question of how to transfer bees from dadans to rues or from purchased packages for a dadanovsky frame to be transplanted into the Rue hive? The event is not so difficult as demanding painstaking work. A transplant consists of one basic simple action - cutting the Dadanov framework in height to a Rutovian one, i.e. with 300 mm. heights, to 230 mm. But when trimming the framework, you will inevitably have to perform several related actions.

They begin transplanting in early spring to a warm sunny and light wind, a better windless day at a temperature in the shade of at least + 14 * C, it can be said that a spring revision is replaced by a change from dadans to ruts, therefore all conditions and, above all, weather for spring revision, Family transplants are honored. First of all, it is necessary in order to avoid chilling the brood. Why is trimming frames produced in early spring? There are two reasons for this: firstly, families are not numerous in terms of the number of bees and as a rule occupy about ten frames, which facilitates the work; secondly, to keep the brood within the framework - there is not a lot of it yet and it doesn’t occupy the entire height of the frame at this time, usually the lowermost part of the brood frame is not yet occupied, but it is cut off from the Dadanov frame. The trimming of the framework itself is best done in a warm room, in order to avoid all the same brooding of the brood, because this manipulation takes some time and if the trimming is carried out on the street, and even with a possible slight breeze, then open brood can definitely be chilled, and in early spring as part of the majority, and a large number of frozen brood in early spring, this is a significant loss for bee colonies undergoing an active period of hibernating bees.

The side frames of the frames, namely, they are cut to the desired height of 230 mm., Are cut off with a regular hacksaw, then the cells themselves are cut with a sharp knife, one centimeter above the cropped side frames of the frame, so that the bottom bar “falls” into place without replacing the comb. Then, the lower bar is again nailed to the already cropped frame, and the rutovskiy frame is already returned to the work box. Such operations are done with all the frames. In order for the work to be done faster, it is better if a simple template would be made to mark the trimming height of the side frames of the frames, i.e. You need to abandon the endless use of the ruler.

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Good afternoon, dear beekeepers!

The first of the bee package to install in the hive take out the feed frame. On the one hand, she has honey, on the other hand, she can have pga. Aft frame set to the extreme wall of the hive.

After that, we put a frame with a wrinkle in the hive.

Behind it we put a frame with printed and open brood.

Fourth in the hive set another frame with brood.

Then the fifth set the second frame with wrinkles.

And we are completing the transfer of the bee package to the hive by installing the last frame with brood. On it, as a rule, there is not a lot of brood, or it can be generally a stern frame. It all depends on the bee package.

After the last frame with the brood is installed, a diaphragm is placed in the hive in order to separate the frame from the empty space in the hive. The diaphragm should not reach 2-3 centimeters to the bottom in order for the bees to feel the space of the hive.

If you have a frame with sushy, then it is better to replace one frame with wrinkles with a frame with sushy, that is, after the stern frame we set not a frame with wrinkles, but a frame with sushy.

After the bee package is transplanted into the beehive's body, we cover the frames with cellophane, we put the liner on, we lay down the pillow and we close the hive with the roof. I would like to especially note that the frames are covered with cellophane, and not with a lap, as we will use the slats in winter.

Preferably, the upper notch is a round hole in the body of the hive, covered with foam rubber or a cloth, and the lower notch in the bottom should be half-covered with a valve.

At this stage, the transfer of the bee package to the hive can be considered fully completed.

A week later, you need to look into the hive to check how much the bees have tightened the waxing. By this time, the foundation should be tightened. In order to expand the family and load the bees with work, it is necessary to add a frame with a wrinkle to the hive again. To do this, open the beehive, take two frames with a wrinkle. Since last week, after a bee-packet was transplanted into a hive, there are 6 frames and a diaphragm there. We put in one frame with wrinkles as the third one from the first set aft frame, that is, there will be a stern frame, a frame with a wrinkle tightened in a week, and then a fresh frame with a wrinkle.

The second fresh frame with a wrinkle we substitute the third one from the end, that is, counting from the diaphragm there will be a frame with brood, then a frame with a wrinkle tightened in a week and a frame with a fresh wrinkle.

Thus, the uterus will fill the frame with brood, the bee colony will grow to a full hive, after which it will be necessary to install an additional second body on the hive, but I will tell you about it in the following article. For greater clarity of transplanting a beekeeper into the hive, we shot a video on our apiary. Good luck and success to you in everything!

Sincerely, Anton Sorokin.

After the spring flight and a quick inspection of the bees, without losing a single fine day, a complete inspection of the bee colonies is carried out, during which the biological status of the bees and brood, the quality of the queens are checked. A sign of good quality of the uterus is a continuous sowing of eggs and without a pass on the honeycomb printed brood. When empty cells meet in the frame with printed brood, such brood is called lattice, or variegated. The reason for his appearance - the old or with other vices of the uterus. Sometimes lattice brood in a different form. On the frame interspersed with printed brood there are cells with larvae. In this case, we can assume the presence of the disease, in which some of the larvae or pupae will die. The bees will throw them away, clean the cells, and the uterus will again lay their testes in them.

According to the results of the inspection, an act of spring revision is drawn up (table). Record the same information and about the dead families, indicating in the note the causes of death. In the same place, information on layouts and nucleus.

During the first full spring inspection, nests and hives are cleaned from winter pollution. They clean the nest from podmor, with a chisel or scraper remove dirt from the walls and bottom of the hive, as well as from the framework, especially from their lower bars. Mold in the corners of the hives, if it turns out, is scraped off with a chisel and wiped with a hard, dry cloth. The bottom of the hive is cleaned like this: usually on the left side of the nest there is a free, unallocated space (tons 3-4 frames). Having taken out warming, clean a bottom in this place. Garbage is removed with a spatula in a bucket. After that, they move the frames out of the nest to the cleared place, cleaning each of them from the dirt, and immediately open them with spare canvas, then clean the bottom in the place where the newly moved frames stood. Dirt, podmor and rubbish are scraped with a chisel-chisel under the following frames, they are taken out one by one, inspected, cleaned, attached to the inspected and (closed with a spare canvas.

After reviewing and cleaning the entire nest, walls and bottom of the hive, the frame is moved to its original place. Garbage is removed, buried in the ground or burned.

During this work, unfit frames are removed from the hive, replacing them with good ones from the stock. Count the amount of food the family has on the day of the inspection and, if it turns out to be small (less than 1 kg per street), immediately frame it with food from the supply or, taking note of this family, give it a thick sugar syrup in the evening (2 kg of sugar 1.25 liters of water) in an amount up to a certain norm. If there is excess feed in individual families, it will be given to those families where it is lacking. Bee families, wintered unfavorably, it worn, with moldy honeycombs, transplanted into clean, disinfected hives. Such hives are prepared in advance, creating their stock - at least 10% of the hives occupied by bees. After the bees are transplanted into clean hives, the dirty ones are released, which are immediately cleaned, disinfected and used for the transfer of other families to them. Released dirty hives for disinfection are put aside, on a specially selected site, put on a stand, so that when processing the hive, do not bend, wipe with a rag dipped in a solution of ash liquor or in a 3% solution of soda ash. Then, with a chisel or knife, traces of diarrhea and other dirt are scraped off the walls of the hive and the bottom. Dry hives, not moistened with liquid, should not be scraped, because dust, if there are pathogens in it, scattering in all directions, will infect the surrounding area. Having finished scraping the dirt, the hive inside and out is well washed with a decontamination solution, and then with clean water. If necessary, while the hive is still wet, it is burned with a blowtorch flame. Especially carefully clean and burn notches, corners, crevices and access boards. Inside, the hive is burned to lightly browning the tree, outside it is well washed with lye and soda solution, while using a stiff brush. Inside and outside the hive is washed so as to completely remove the traces of diarrhea. Coloring the hives after a few days update. To perform such work to help beekeepers, the farm appoints an additional worker per every 10 families.

In many apiaries, especially among amateur beekeepers, a spring revision is carried out using materials from the first full spring inspection of bees. In most state apiaries, spring revisions are carried out with complete disassembly of the nests after cleaning and disinfecting hives.

In a well-wintered family, the beekeeper will see the presence of feed and determine its quantity. In it will be brood of all ages on 2-4 frames, depending on the strength of the family, sealed (closed) brood on the center of the frame (17), closer to the upper bar, palm-wide, on one and the other side of the frame. Around the brood on the same framework is an open brood (larvae and eggs). This is a normal family, successfully completed the winter.

It happens that the state of individual families will be abnormal. Signs of such families are as follows.

1. The family has a printed brood, but there are no young larvae and eggs. On one of the frames in the center of the nest in the presence of the mother liquor (one or two). The mother liquor can be open or sealed. This means that the uterus in this family died 8-12 days before the examination, and on those larvae or eggs that remained from the dead uterus, the bees laid the queen mothers. Sometimes you can see such a mother liquor, from which the uterus has already left, there is a round hole at its end. In this case, the brood in the family may not be. This means that the uterus in this family died 22 days or even earlier before the present examination, and the bees laid the mother queen and the queen came out on the day of the inspection. Such families should be considered as squatless, because the uterus will soon be born in them - they will come out of the queen cells or they have already left, but they cannot fertilize, because at this time they cannot fly out for mating and there are no drones. In addition, the uterus, educated in winter or in early spring - before the appearance of nectar in nature, are of little use. Such families are combined with weak ones with queens, or they are attached to the nucleus with bees (layouts).

2. There is no printed brood in the family, and upon careful examination on one of the frames, you can notice eggs and larvae in small numbers. It means that the uterus died in winter, 30-35 days before the present inspection and began laying eggs unfertilized - the drone. It is necessary to wait for the first sealing of the brood and, if it turns out to be hunchbacked, remove such a uterus and deal with this family as without a battery.

3. The family has printed humpback brood in bee cells, eggs and larvae in the cells near the humpback brood. This means that the uterus in the family died in winter, 50-60 days before the spring flight, the bees brought out a new uterus and she lays the unfertilized eggs. It should be immediately removed and the family should be considered as battery-free, with all the ensuing consequences.

4. When viewed in the family, no brood was found - neither eggs, nor larvae, nor printed. Such a family is considered to be batteryless. In order to be convinced of this, they put a control frame with young larvae, and if on this frame the bees lay the mother liquor, it means that there is really no uterus. If the queen is not laid, then the uterus is there, and it must be found and removed, and with the family they act like without a battery.

5. In some families there will be a lot of submarine, they will be weak. If the uterus in such a family is good, then it must be preserved and the family must be brought up to normal productive force by means of supplementation. However, such a family should be noted, and if the uterus or her daughter die out again next winter, she should be rejected.

As a result, a complete inspection and work in the hives should be clean, enough frames with good honeycombs and feed, the nest is well insulated, the frames are left as much as the bees are drying them. At the same time, with a full inspection and cleaning of the hives, individual families will prove to be unviable. These are beztodochnye and lost many bees in the winter. Such families are immediately corrected as stated above.

In drawing up the act of spring revision records taken during the first inspection are taken into account.

A beekeeper, an agronomist or, on his instructions, a plant brigadier, an accountant and, in some cases, a representative of the trade union, should be involved in the audit at a public apiary.

Bee colonies and beehives are numbered in each apiary. They put oil paint numbers on the walls. The same numbers are put on roofs, podshnikhniki, flush-boards and second buildings. This numbering may not be necessary if all the hives and parts to them are interchangeable.

In addition to the numbers on the hives numbered bee families located in the hives. The family number is made on a metal tag (a 6X8 cm plate), which is hung on a stud on the outer wall of the hive. If a family of bees is transplanted to another hive, the tag with the family number is outweighed by it. Beekeepers need to know and remember that without the correct numbering of bee families, it is impossible to care for them.

Bee transplant in clean, disinfected hives produced in the following order. Behind the hive, next to him, put a stand. A hive with bees is placed on it, and a spare spare is placed on the vacated space. At the same time, the front wall of the hive occupied by bees and the back of the spare should be located as tightly as possible so that when moving the frames, the bees that have fallen off them will not fall to the ground. They close the hive's bee-holes with bees, remove the lid; and then the lap, a little smoke over the frames. The lap is put in place, leaving two frames open on the right side. They take out the first of them, inspect, scrap the pollution with a knife, transfer it to a new hive and place it against the right wall, closing it with another canvas. Dirty frames are being cleaned over the old hive, shaking the bees off of them into a new one. Also come with the second frame and all the others in turn. The frames are worthless, moldy, heavily worn, they are put in one portable box without brood, but they are suitable, but not drained by bees, in another. Of the hives in which the bees are affected by Nozematosis, all confiscated frames are removed separately from others for overflow to the wax.

After all the frames have been moved, the bees remaining in the old hive are fumigated with smoke and transferred to a piece of cardboard in a new one, which is then closed and carefully warmed with paper, upper and side pillows.