Installation seat or colmenar

The radius that the bees cross is of approximately between 1.5 and 4 km. When the sources of nectar obtaining and polen are close the yield of the beehive will be greater. The regions affluent equipped with apicultural flora  can tolerate up to 80 beehives, and the ideal would be to place another seat to about 1 and 2 km of this one. In order to place the seat a zone of about 20 meters of approximately wide avoiding fire danger is due to clean. The direction always must be the route that takes the sun, so that mainly in winter but the possible thing are protected. The beehive is due to raise of the ground several centimeters, first to avoid humidities, and second to avoid in winter the water obstacles.

One is due to consider  whenever one is going away to install a seat or to colmenar new three reasons:

- That exists a reasonable amount of food in 1.5 and 4 km of the proposed territory

- That has a suitable  land so that the bees can fly with absolute freedom

- That does not exist other beehives in the same area of harvesting.

If some of the three is not fulfilled it would have to look for another location for the seat.

Handling and transfer of colmenar

Before to begin the inspection of a beehive is due to have ignition the ahumador, placed the mask and other elements of protection, and the citaera or spatula. The beekeeper never must be placed in front of the beehive to prevent the entrance and exit of the bees by the piquera. Whiffs of smoke in the piquera are applied and it comes itself to remove to the cover and entretapa. A little gets smoked up the interior and it is to each other continued separating with the citaera the pictures since are patches with propóleo. The pictures are extracted that we want to observe.

Spring: When one begins the flowering and the drones are begun to see we must verify the existence of the queen in first term, its age and productivity, the amount of honeycombs with bees, with larvae, eggs and operculadas young and their distribution in the picture.

Generally the queen goes accompanied by her séquito, which facilitates its location, generally where there are put eggs just. If we do not see it either and there are put eggs just is necessary to retire one of the pictures of the young camera to replace it by another one (of another beehive) that has eggs and small larvae. To the 3 days, if the colony were orphaned the bees already will have constructed real cells to supplant the faltante queen.

During the revision it agrees to be eliminating the real cells, (or nonbeing that is an orphaned colony), if they are of good quality we can remove the picture from that beehive and take it to some orphaned beehive or to replace some old queen or of bad quality.

The aged pictures, with many cells of drones, polen old or deformed they are due to replace by new with printed wax. If we noticed weak colonies we can help with pictures of young of other strong beehives máhims . At this one time the colonies need space to be developed and thus to avoid cluster of bess. The ideal moment to place the melaria rise is when seven of the ten pictures are well full of young, honey and polen.

Summer: The harvest of the honey begins.The bees distribute the nectar to give to greater surface of evaporation ventilating the bees the interior of the beehive thus to evaporizar the humidity. When the seal is formed, it is the suitable moment to carry out I castrate of the beehive.

Autumn: the revisación must become before the colds arrive. The excesses of honey are extracted leaving single the pictures with operculada honey of the young camera and a rise. The empty honeycombs are replaced by pictures with operculada honey and it must leave at least 3 pictures of each side full of honey. It is the time where the cures against the most common diseases of the beehive are made, just after I castrate so that in the honey are not remainders.

Winter: At this one time it is necessary to preserve them of the humidity that is one of its worse enemies. It is avoided when all the covers in good conditions and without splits are had. One verifies that they have an inclination towards ahead so that the water slips quickly. In some colmenares can be totally appreciated the presence of covers or covers covering partial or to the beehive.  The observations single must be external, single it will be opened when we notice that it is lack of population or by the presence of drones, because when opening it descends the inner temperature. This time for the food takes advantage of the same one if it is necessary.

The transfer of the beehives until our seat is advisable to make it in winter, or in its defect, they take at night, when the total of the population is in its interior. It is necessary to assure or the pictures with strips of wood nailed or wedges, to prevent its movement. The piquera is closed with special a screen to prevent the exit of the bees and to maintain a ventilation suitable. Once placed in his definitive place it is begun to open the piqueras.

If it is desired to move a beehive within the old limits of the harvesting area, first it is necessary to move it about four kilometers more or, is to say outside the harvesting area, to let it three weeks and later take it there to the new location. Thus it is avoided that the recolectoras are confused and return to their old location. During the three weeks the old recolectoras will be extinguished and will be replaced by other new ones that do not know the previous location.

In the case of moving the beehive outside the old limits of the harvesting area  the intermediate period will be able to be saved and to move the beehive to the new location directly