DE1025197B - Beehives for two colonies - Google Patents

Description

GERMAN

Beehives for two colonies are available as twin hives in which two colonies are independent are housed from each other as individual peoples, moreover in such a way that two peoples share a common Can use honey room, furthermore, beehives with an additional storage compartment are as so-called three-room hives known.

All of these hives have the disadvantage that when using the offshoot or the second colony the offshoot compartment or honey room in another place or in another hive of the stand Bees, accustomed to flying, still fly to the old, closed entrance hole for days and become one for the forage a considerable part fail. In addition, the neighboring peoples are disturbed. That leaves the honey space flight hole open, so heat escapes through the inlaid barricade between the brood and honey space, with adverse consequences for the further spring development of the bee colonies.

Other hives have a dividing strip in the double floor; thereby each people is at a certain flight hole bound. With all known constructions there is no possibility of one of the peoples through the To strengthen flying bees of the other colony without disturbance and loss of yield and heat. All these According to the invention, disadvantages are caused by the new triple floor in connection with the side wall flight channel eliminated.

The colonies can optionally by feeding the flying bees of the other colony to take advantage of a Early garb will be strengthened. In the same way, the tendency of a people to swarm through the Withdrawal of the flying bees can be suppressed or re-swarming can be prevented. The weakened one The colony is allowed to take off and approach through the side wall channel, the bees fly as they are used to old flight hole and are forcibly passed into the other people without disturbance or loss. In In all cases, the old access is replaced by repositioning the flight wedges in the relevant flight niche the intermediate floor! light-tight closed. This eliminates the appearance of drafts and heat losses.

A major advance is the space-saving Positioning of the booty, which makes stacking the same superfluous, and the upper treatment with all its advantages, especially time savings.

Here are some examples and views of the prey:

Fig. 1 shows the prey in a side view in section along line I-I (Fig. 2),

2 shows the prey in a front view;

Fig. 3 shows the three possible positions of the entrance wedges 11 and 12 (Fig. 2) and

Applicant:

Karl-Friedrich Leppin,
Neubrandenburg, Grosse Wollweberstr. 40

Karl-Friedrich. Leppin, Neubrandenburg,
has been named as the inventor

4 shows the prey in section along line II-II (FIG. 2) ;

Fig. 5 shows the two positions of the flying wedge 17 (Fig. 4) in the side wall flight channel and

6 shows an exemplary embodiment in multi-people operation (skyscraper operation);

Fig. 7 shows the prey in section along line I-I (Fig. 2) during the wintering and finally

8 shows the flying wedge for the honeycomb flight hole 14 (FIG. 4) in the two positions 14 'and 14b .

In the hive, a colony has overwintered in the front brood chamber compartment 1. The bees approach and take off through the entrance hole 12. The flying wedge 5 has the position 5 a. The flying bees take their way through channel 6 into the front brood chamber compartment 1. Once the colony has reached swarm maturity or the pre-swarm has fallen, the status is changed as follows:

The brood chamber window is replaced by a movable partition 8 and the rear brood chamber compartment 2 is equipped with central walls according to the strength of the swarm and closed off by the brood chamber window. Now the arrangement of the flight holes is changed as follows: flight hole 11 is opened, the flight wedge 5 is brought into position 5 α . The flying wedge in the entrance hole 12 is now in position 5 b. The swarm now comes into the rear brood chamber compartment 2 and is strengthened by the flying bees of the rest of the colony in the same way as the flying bees leave the front brood chamber compartment 1 through the channel 6 via the entrance hole 11, but fly to the old entrance hole 12 as they are used to flying and now fly through the flight wedge position 5 b can be passed through the channel 7 into the rear compartment 2 of the brood chamber. As a result, all the flying bees are fed to the swarm. He expands the brood room in the shortest possible time and can get the honey room. After 7 days at the latest, the entrance hole arrangement is changed again. Of the

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Flying wedge 5 in the entrance hole 11 is brought into the position 5 b and the side wall channel entrance hole 13 is opened and the flying wedge 17 is brought into the position 17 a.

The following purpose is achieved by this measure: The flying bees of the front brood chamber compartment 1 leave the side wall duct entrance hole 13 via the opening 15 and fly to the entrance hole 11 as they are used to flying. Since the flying wedge 5 is in position 5b , these flying bees are also directed via the channel 7 into the rear brood chamber compartment 2 and further strengthen the swarm. Due to the loss of the flying bees, swarming is definitely prevented in the rest of the colony; it even automatically destroys the surplus swarm cells.

The young queen now flies to mate through the side wall canal access hole 13, the lateral and elevated arrangement of which prevents the young queens from flying away and thus ensures the lowest possible losses. Since the way to the entrance hole 12 is much shorter than to the entrance hole 11 due to the arrangement of the passage openings in the intermediate floor, the growing bees will prefer the entrance hole 12, so that after about 3 weeks the entrance hole 11 is only rarely occupied and used. By moving the flying wedge 5 into the position 5 a and at the same time narrowing the flight hole 13, the flight bees in the front brood chamber compartment 1 are used to the flight hole 11.

In the following spring the following situation emerged: The prey is occupied by two colonies. The colony in the front brood chamber compartment 1 flies through the entrance hole 11, the flying wedge 5 is in position 5 a. The people in the rear compartment 2 flies through the entrance hole 12, the flying wedge is in position 5b. Now, according to the invention, the advantages of the two-colony hive with a triple bottom come into their own.

If, for example, an unfavorable spring delayed the development of the bee colonies, it is a If there is a shortage of flying bees, the starry will be Colony switched on the flying bees of the other.

example

Experience has shown that the colony in the front brood chamber compartment 1 with the younger queen entered the winter with more young bees and is consequently superior in terms of spring development. The honey chamber 3 was released for both colonies after all unoccupied honeycombs were removed from both brood chamber compartments 1 and 2 ', and at the same time ¹ the vertical odor and barrier grille 9 was inserted over the brood chamber partition. Both queens can go to the honey room to lay their eggs. According to the expected early forage, a horizontal barricade is inserted and the fleeced colony is separated from the honey room by cover boards. The changeover of the flight wedges or flight holes is carried out as follows:

The flying bees from colony 2 are to be fed to the colony in brood chamber compartment 1. The honey room 3 comes over the brood chamber compartment 1. By inserting cover boards the access to the Honey room 3 closed to the people in the rear compartment 2.

The flying wedge 5 in the entrance hole 12 is brought into position a . At the same time, the sidewall canal entry hole 13 is opened and the flying wedge 17 is brought into position b . The flying bees leave the brood chamber compartment 2 via the opening 16 in the side wall flight channel of the entrance hole 13 and fly to the entrance hole 12 as usual. Due to the flying wedge position 5 α, the flying bees reach the front brood chamber compartment 1 via the channel 6 and thus strengthen the front colony. Due to the loss of flying bees, the rear colony has to be watered until flying bees appear.

The same measures also allow the so-called skyscraper operation.

Claims (4)

Patent claims: 1. Beehive for two bee colonies, marked in that a three shelf, with the access channels (6,7) over the entire width of the Brood space, and the Zuiganigs openings in the Intermediate floor to the two brood compartments (1 and 2) on the same side of the hive next to each other are arranged. 2. Beehive for two bee colonies according to claim 1, characterized in that a side wall ^{flight channel (13), in which 1} two openings (15 or 16) are attached at different heights, from which the opening (15) into the front brood compartment (1 ), the second opening (16) opens into the rear brood compartment (2) and these openings are on the same side of the bag, above the through openings in the intermediate floor. 3. Beehive for two bee colonies according to claim 1 and 2, characterized in that a Sidewall flight channel (13) in connection with a reversible Fluglochkeiil (17) is provided 4. Beehive for two bee colonies according to the previous claims, characterized in that two reversible entry hole wedges (5, 17) are provided. 1 sheet of drawings ® 709 907/53 2.58