How to Unite Bee Families. Beekeeping.

How to unite bee families?

Every beekeeper should know how to unite bee families. What is he doing? The reasons for this are many. To give simple examples.

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After the spring audit of the family without the Queen bee you need to put bees with a spare bee queen. All of the family, the strength of which is less than 4 periods, it is necessary to strengthen or combine.

Connect bees is also on the main bribes. In this case,beekeepers go to the goal that strong families produce more honey than two weak.

Fall similarly. After the audit in families without a bee queen, mounted the spare with a small family. Family, the strength of which is less than 5 — 6 frames, because in the winter they will go very weak — less than 4 frames.

All of the family, the strength of which is less than 4 frames, undesirable to leave neither in spring nor in winter.

In the spring of such families develop poorly in winter may die.

Why 4 frames? Where's the number?

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This is the minimum number of bees in the hive, which is:

• warm,
• will create the necessary microclimate in the nest for seeding and bee queen
• the bees will be able to bring the feed in the presence of a bribe,
• will be able to develop in the spring to middle or strong family

Also in the summer, before the main bribe, we need to calculate the average and weak family. This technique is commonly used by beekeepers which have a lot of bees to increase the amount of honey in the apiary.

We all know that:

• a poor family of beekeepers at a loss
• the average bees family works for himself,
• strong bees family on the beekeeper.

Only a strong family of bees can bring to the beekeeper 80 — 100 pounds of honey per hive per season and provide yourself the winter.

Medium bee family will bring honey only for themselves..

The Weak bee family, in the spring need to be fed, and in the fall to substitute frames with honey from strong bee families.

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You have decided to join a few bee colonies?

If after the spring audit, then the bees still do not remember their hive, they have no smell, not a strong instinct to protect their nests.

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Thus, joining of bees in the spring — nothing could be simpler.

If the family is strong, but without a bee queen, then put her little family with Queen bee. While not applying any protective action.

If you combine two identical families and bee queens, need to catch a Queen bee, which in your opinion is worse.

Bring the hive without the Queen bee to another. And just transfer the frames with bees in the family increase.

If the Queen bee is good and one year. And just to put the frames in one hive.

I read in the magazine "Apiary" that one beekeeper did. And after a while was very surprised that in the family on the one frame, but from different sides, worked bee queens.

I think what's surprising here is not what. If families are inclined to a quiet shift Queens, it happens. In the end, the Queen bee will remain one.

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