swarming instinct is manifested in certain coincidence of both external and internal factors, therefore, to prevent it is necessary to conduct a range of activities, taking into account local conditions, as well as what exactly what breed of bees live in hives belonging to you.It is important to understand that it is much easier to prevent the manifestation of this instinct in the bee colonies than belatedly to deal with its consequences.
Here are some special techniques to help suppress the swarming bees:
1) should be promptly selected from the families of representatives of the surplus that is not loaded with work, or mature brood.
2) A large number of bees can take the education of brood, but that the family must live young egg-laying queen.
3) Insects must be loaded to the maximum collecting nectar and the construction of new cells.
4) It is also necessary to expand the nest in a timely manner, to shade the hives and enhance their ventilation.
5) Filter and need to reproduce highly neroylivye family.
6) Breeding of species of bees, which are less likely to swarm.
selection of bees and brood need to have time to spend before the swarms appear bowls.And if the queen cells swarms laid in the family, then this method will not prevent the swarming bees.It is especially important to carry out the selection in areas where the period of building families longer (with sunflower, lime, buckwheat and buckwheat types of honey collection), but first of all it concerns those areas where before flowering major honey plants is never a productive gathering, in such cases, the honeybeeforced to collect their livestock to the offensive of the main honey crop.
addition to the selection of extra bees swarming can be prevented, denser loading "population" hive brood raising and construction of honeycombs.The more fertile womb, the more larvae, and the greater the number of young bees distracted to care for them.
in families with annual prolific queens bees swarming occurs much less frequently than those with older queens.Therefore, their timely replacement is a good protivoroevym technique which considerably increases the productivity of the apiaries.
also swarming bees can be prevented by uploading their work on the construction, the collection and further processing of nectar, it takes in the absence of honey collection to transport apiary in the place where he is (on Malinniki, meadow herbs, coriander, sainfoin, pink and white cloveretc).
In order to maximize the potential of young bees in the construction of new cells, with the onset of warm weather, and at least minimal supporting honey collection in the nests of families need to put the frame with honeycomb.For sufficiently strong families need to install it between cells containing brood in the middle of the nest.You can also transmit force to the families of the open brood nests weaker "neighbors" on growing.Though it is necessary to take into account that this procedure is quite time-consuming, and may contribute to the spread of diseases.
In carrying out all these actions should increase the size of the nests.In cases where expansion slots carried out in a timely manner, it not only contributes to the development of families, but also prevents the swarming bees.Even if using this technique is still not able to prevent undesirable process, its timing and retracted substantially involved therein relatively few individuals.
Under normal hives for 12 frames, prevents swarming timely installation polunadstavok.They need to establish, without waiting for the overflow slot.If weather conditions permit, this work is carried out as soon as the bees cover the 10-11 framework.Shading hives, increased ventilation - these techniques are carried out, when the outside air is heated above 35 degrees and insects are not coping with the maintenance of a suitable temperature inside the nest, fly out of the hive, causing swarming instinct.
