Wooden queen introduction cage
Wooden queen introduction cage
Classic beehive addition cage. The wooden cage for the
addition of mothers is solved so that in the lateral part there are holes with a
diameter of 35 mm and covered with a wire cloth. At the bottom of the cage there
are holes intended to insert a temporary denture closure from the medulla dough.
Once you put the honey dough into the hole, the hole is closed with a plastic
lid with a hole of 8 mm in diameter, through which the bees are tested to the
queen. The release of bee queen takes about two days. The inlet for the queen is
closed by a plug.
Queen exchange in the colonies begins by removing the old queen, followed by the
addition of a new queen. The honeybee laborers where you want to embed a new
mother will initially try to kill the new queen because they will treat her as a
strange bee. The adoption of a new bee queen then depends on the proportions in
the beehive. Younger queen bees receive more willingly than elder bees. Smaller
groups of queen bees also receive better than larger groups. The colony accepts
her mother better when she is just as old. The colony reluctantly accepts its
queen during the robbery period, but willingly accepts it at the time of the
snatch. Beekeepers are usually scheduled to exchange queen for a period of frogs,
that is, spring or autumn. Workers will not accept a new mother if the old queen
is present in the beehive, so it is necessary first to remove the old queen. If
queen cells are in the colony, you need to look through them for removal because
they could run out of a new queen. The addition cage is therefore a standard
tool when adding a queen. You can seal the holes in the key with a honey dough.
Dimensions: 13 x 7 cm.
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