they are small, but their Benefit is huge: Around 85 percent of the agricultural income in Germany of pollination by bees. With our series “From nectar to honey,” we want to introduce the fascinating world of bees in more detail. Today, a Beekeeper, Susanne Karner expanded the home to their tenants.
Gelting – In a warm spring like last can develop in the peoples very quickly and grow. Susanne Karner noted. In your garden, the fruit trees are in bloom, and it is very nice. In front of the beehive on the balcony there is a brisk Coming and Going. “The work to fly until sunset, or until it’s too cold,” says Karner. Against 16 clock the hum swells. “The noise the boys make, if you are coming from the Drone Assembly points home.”
+ Constructed nature of honeycomb, walls, start strips: a Beekeeper Susanne Karner has tried all three ways to support your bees during the honey production in the best possible way.
At our last visit to the Geltingerin wondered whether you should feed your bees after the Winter. “I decided against it,” says the 46-Year-old. “Thanks to the good weather, there is enough food in nature.” For the Beekeeper now is the time, a so-called honey room, that is to say, to give the bees more space in your floor. “As I Orient blossom me on the weather and the cherry.” If there is not in the hive is sufficient space, the people in swarm mood. “And to prevent the beekeeper.”
With tact sets Karner two frames with a thin strip of bees wax in the Brood chamber. “Now I can remove two of the old honeycomb. We want to keep the domicile of the bees clean it up.“ On this strip for the bees to build on. Also in the honey room Karner back to the beginning of the strip, the insect itself must cultivate. “So I get honeycomb honey with an edible wax,”explains the expert.
by the Way there is in the hive, a clear separation between the Brood chamber and Honey chamber. “In between, it depends a shut-off grid,” explains the 46-Year-old. “There are Openings that allow the workers to get in the honey room.” The Openings are so narrow that the broader Queen bars the way. “The butterfly grid is prevented so that hatching is created in the honey room.”
Speaking of hatching: the first woman in the state, the Queen is responsible. It determines whether from an Egg to a worker bee or a male bee (drone). “From the fertilized eggs, the work to develop the inside, from the unfertilized, the drones hatch,” explains the biologist. The impetus to get the Queen through the different-sized worker and drone cells.
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Whether or not a fertilized Egg but a new Queen to grow, which is solely determined by the diet of the larva. “Build the work of an extra-large king bees inside the cell, the larva receives the Queens jelly, called Royal jelly, a pure glandular secretion, as a permanent food.” Thus, the worker bees decide to be used, when and how many Queens.
The Young Queens want to form a state of their own. Therefore it goes for you at the age of one to two weeks on a wedding flight. In a so-called Drones, to the Assembly point, they meet the pairing willing male bees. “Where is that, we don’t know,” says the Beekeeper. “But the Young Queens know exactly where to go.” In the case of this wedding flights, take the seeds up to 15 drones in your seminal vesicle. “The seed stock must extend for five years,” says Karner.
The male bees is only granted to a very short life with a tragic end. You are only a few weeks old, and die during the mating flight the young Queen. Karner: “Since it rips out the whole sexual apparatus, and that was it.” Who didn’t come to the train, it flies back to the hive and tries his luck the next day.
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