She is one leaves natural from the annual cycle of a colony of bees of honey, developed by the nature to perpetuate species, to compensate the losses
of colonies by natural causes like forest fires, diseases or starvation and other similars. All the colonies do not enjambran every year. A colony can carry out this operation every two or three years. This phenomenon takes place when in spring bloom most of the plants of the region (March and April), then the egg putting of the queen intensifies since "the cut" lets freedom in the heat of to it thus to be able to have greater amount of workers so that they collect the nectar. The queen approximately 3 days before the game will completely stop to put eggs, preparing themselves to fly. When producing excess of workers in the beehive the queen produces a sound similar to the one of a siren that is the unequivocal signal, along with the excess, heat internal
of beehive, which they contribute to cause cluster of bees, that consists of the division of the beehive, leaving same the queen mother and more than 20,000 workers.Just before the game the activity of the beehive will be intense, be much restlessness and few exits to look for food and the workers will devour honey. The explorers begin to reconnoiter the terrain and to look for possible locations of the cluster nest. Since the queen mother leaves with the cluster, the colony mother must be able to take control of a new queen. Seven or eight days before the definitive exit the colony will begin to raise several queens, leaving with the exit to the colony mother without queen during approximately one week, is to never say join the queen mother with the new queen.
Arrived the great day towards the noon, the great event takes place. Around the entrance an increasing agitation can be appraised and finally the bees begin to leave. A great number of bees participates in the initial exit. The queen will emerge towards half of the group: it follows and she does not direct. After giving returns by the immediate surroundings of the original beehive by space of several minutes, the bees will form a compact cluster that will subject and be suspended of some near protuberance. The cluster will verify that the queen is member of the group. If he is absent they will return to the original beehive and they will repeat one or several times the departure process until the queen is in the group.
The explorers begin to dance on the surface of the cluster, and each one will expose the virtues of its new location. The whole cluster will reach an agreement about which of the new locations it is accepted and it starts off to take possession from his new residence. The original beehive is back in the old location with all its young, varia working bees, an inferior number of domestic bees, and without queen, although a new queen is on the verge of eclosionar in few days if everything goes well. They do not fly generally very high and they can be catched, but the ability of the beekeeper consists of avoiding cluster of bees, dividing to beehive before they decide to leave making believe the bees that already have enjambrado themselves.
The beekeeper uses several practices to avoid that their bees enjambren and start off:
- To construct a beehive divided or of nucleus
- To retire honeycombs of young and domestic bees, that can integrate themselves in another beehive.
- To interchange a weak beehive with other more energetic than is on the verge of enjambrar itself, is to say to interchange the positions of both beehives. Thus the weak beehive more hard acquires of the beehive the force derived from the location, which will help him to regenerate. to this operation it is called to him to trasfilar