the place and the orientation of the apiary
page n°2
HOMMES ET ABEILLES
liens
HOMMES ET ABEILLES
liens
The hive, from spring goes to see the eggs of the queen to restart,
these eggs can achieve up to 2 000 eggs a day, eggs which are going to hatch in 21 days at most for the female bees, 24 days for drone and 16 days for the queens in gestation.
The good gestation of the brood is going to be able to come true with an internal temperature of the hive of 33°c.
The beekeeper thus goes to the implatantion of his apiary to choose a sun exposure allowing to facilitate the establishment of the good temperature in the morning, while watching to slow down it at the warmest hours.
The shadow is appreciated by the bee colony the warm afternoons; the wax, the architectural structure of the bee colony, does not have to soften so that alveoli do not deform, what would penalize the storage capacity of the hive, among others.
The wax bottom in a temperature of 60°c. The temperature of incubation is 33 °c.
To offer of the shadow to its hive allows to help bees in their work of air conditioning,
relieves the workers in their work of ventilation to expel the warm air of the hive.
In summer a colony of bees account 60 000 individuals: several hundreds of bees positioned on frames expel the air by their beatings of wings; more they will be numerous less there will be of butineuses, carriers of water and researchers of nectar in the work...
The apiary is going to be directed eastward: the morning sun is important for the bee colony, earlier the sun will knock on the facade of the hive and thus the hole of flight, earlier bees are going to set to work.
In the choice of the setting-up various criteria appear :
Every country has prevailing wind which it is necessary to take into account for the setting-up of an apiary.
Hives must be directed to the East to get the shelves of the sun as soon as possible, but also to open in the South.
Phenomena of condensations build up themselves because of the internal temperature of the hive and the outside night-temperature.
The hive is thus going to be slightly on behind to evacuate this residual humidity, which streaming on the internal walls of the body of hive, will pass by by the hole of flight.
We are going to privilege an orientation to the Southeast: the board of flight will quickly dry, the garbage thrown back by the domestic
Will be dehydrated by the sun, so limiting sanitary concerns which a mold would start.
Very often a shrub planted on the side of the hive allows to protect it from an effect draft due to the environment. The custom of the enfumoir is for this subject
Revelation it is advised to hold the enfumoir with the hand the wind.
SMELL OF the WIND---------> ENFUMOIR---------> FRAME
Apiaries are subjected to a phenomenon of drift ,
From part the strength of the wind and the lightness of its weight, the bee returning in its hive is sometimes allowed entrainer by gusts.
We shall thus have interest in the fact that avettes does not have to fight the wind in their return loaded with pollen, with water or with propolis,
to treat carefully them in their efforts
(A butineuse makes several hundreds of exits a day.)
On the other hand winds blowing laterally in the facade of the apiary have too an important action:
A drift of bees appears and we notice that hives most outside of the apiary are often
The most dynamic..
Indeed, bees which want to join one of the hives of the center of the apiary are deported
Towards a nearby board of flight in their bee colony. Tired by the flight they divert and deposit their harvest in the new, but very fast hive are thrown back by foreign bees.
The phenomenon thus enriches in raw materials the outside hives; that is why when we shall have the possibility, it will be sensible to place ruchettes and little populous hives there.
Our bees naturally need water! Carrier of water the job exists in the social organization of the beecolony.
To resolve the contribution into water by placing the apiary near a lake or near a river would be an error: these last ones generate among others morning mists which penalize enormously the good health of the bee colony by a humidity in the body of hive which bees cannot fight.
The big cold is less dangerous for the wintering than the humidity.
In the summer months the nearness of a large surface of water is dangerous for the swarms, which deceived by the reflection of the sun on the water, begin flying on the back and fall down in the lake.
The report was made many a time: the loss of the swarm if it is unpleasant to the beekeeper, agrees perfectly in various species of fishes.
(Importance of the bee in the food chaine).
The carriers of water estimate the streaming of the water on the tar, because they do not know how to swim. By arranging near the apiary a mess tin filled with pebbles Appearing from some water, the beekeeper decreases the route of bees loaded with some water and can insure the supply, even by a scorching summer.
A colleague collected some green honey and it was not some honey of fir tree, but some syrup of
mint prepared by a company of the immediate neighborhood (1 mile) . The small scamps had
located the source of this nectar quickly and plundered quietly.
It is to know that they did not prick the staff on the site because their mission was only to return the nectar.
The staff invaded well in its work did not want to kill bees, nor to use fatal pesticides in their production but fought
This plague in the fire hose !
The informed beekeeper has to examine the surroundings of his apiary, warn a company where a neighborhood of the presence of hives It can bring some comfort for all the local residents, of the courtesy in the relations, the meeting with his neighbor.
For the good management of an apiary, it is always advantageous to have the second falling point to place our bees,
Or to follow or avoid a given bloom but more certainly to place young created swarms or there in quarantine.
The prefectorial 's acts push away the limits of nearness of an apiary in 100 m public buildings: schools, barracks, hopitaux... It is the little binding distance, that does not have to slow down our heats in the search for a setting-up
The consultation of orders of the prefect is obviously indispensable < / p >
There is a lot places on the ground which even in urban zones can see appearing apiaries not questioning the safety(security) of the walkers.
There are fewer places for the safety of bees: a balloon,
some shock during the wintering of the bee colony, can activate the death of the queen by stings of her daughters, fatal reflex.
The area of flight of the apiary is essential in the cohabitation between the apiary and the waterside alive species.
The surface necessary for the takeoff and for the landing of bees can be occupied by shrubs; but the human, human, bovine, canine beings
penetrating
On this air space go to visit rejected energetically. The grip
The flat roofs of buildings can sometimes welcome hives but are little protected from the wind and very exposed to the heat waves. Visited for the maintenance of the building, it is important to get in touch with the chimney sweeps and the technicians of maintenance; the caution is acceptable.
Many places can with a minimum of excavation be appropriat to receive a small apiary, attractive, safely.
Fine wire nettings do not hamper(bother) the flight of bees.
The gardens of the private individuals should rather accommodate a small apiary managed by 3 to 5 persons, Which work alternately on hives; to be in a garden creates improved human relations; vegetables can only it develop better; in times of crisis to produce more and locally, goes to the sense of our action.
Bees can present an inconvenience to the local residents when one or several swarms come every spring
settle in the embrasure of a window, in the fireplace, the beekeeper has to assume his responsibilities and not risk to damage his fellow man for his hobby.
To check the swarming pays upstream during the spring visits; it is an action easy to realize, of whom we shall speak again.
The presence of an urban associative apiary, facilitates the recovery of swarms by fire brigades. We advise to the amateur beekeepers to become known with these last ones.
To paint the hives of various colors either to paint geometrical motives on their facade, allows the avettes to spot better their bee colony on the return to the flights, to limit the drift.
Today thermopeintures allows to repaint hives while they are populated and these same paints have the advantage to send back( the heat of the shelves of the sun.
The setting-up of apiaries facilitates the agricultural productions, let us wish that it has an impact on the choice of vegetable essences prospering our cities.
City parks are often rather sterile in term of fruit production !