The use of temporary familys in the preparation of honey bees for the period of hypobiosis
2024
I. Kovalskyi | M. Druzhbiak
The survival of bee families during hypobiosis is considered the most critical period of their life. It correlates with the number of workers in the nest, that is, the strength of the family. The article presents one of the possible implementations of the potential of bee families to increase their strength before the period of hypobiosis. The proposed technology involves using auxiliary queens in temporary families formed before wintering from their maternal families. The work aimed to study the effectiveness of using this retention technology. For research, two groups of families created by analogs were formed. There were 5 bee families in each group. In the research group, on July 30, one litter was made from each maternal research family. Thus, before the beginning of the period of hypobiosis in experimental families, the number of offspring was obtained from two queens. A characteristic feature of the control group was the presence in the nest of brood obtained from only one queen. The conducted studies indicate that using temporary families during the preparation of bees for the state of hypnosis ensured a significant increase in the strength of bee colonies. As a result of the proposed technology, the strength of the families of the experimental group exceeded the control group by 22.2 % (Р < 0.001). The proposed technology made it possible to completely replace the queens of maternal families with young queens from temporary families.
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