Lto American beehive Langstroth is the used beehive less in the Villuercas.

It is composed by two drawers, or cameras, one down and other above.The inferior one is called young camera (where she is the queen) and the superior rise where the honey is stored. They are of identical size to facilitate the interchange.

It consists of two piqueras (entered of the beehive). In summer the two for greater ventilation and in single winter one are opened to avoid the cold entrance.  

Between the camera of young and the rise usually it is placed the excluidora grid, that consists of a wood frame and a grid of galvanized wire. This grid is placed with the purpose of preventing that the queen and the drones raise the melaria rise, (avoiding that are eggs mixed with the honey in the superior rise).

Lto Layens beehive is the used beehive more in the Villuercas.

It is compound of 1 drawer of 12 pictures with cover covered galvanized plate wood. It also consists of two piqueras higher than another one. The object of both piqueras is the same one that in the beehive langstroth

Queen

Ands the mother of all the other bees of the colony, supposing that there is been present in the colony as reigns ponedora during at least six weeks, being greater than the other inhabitants. It has a pointed abdomen and a raised color more than the workers and the drones

By the form of their abdomen the wings are appraised as shorter, their slower movements and when it is putting eggs (once it was fertilized) usually it does not fly  until the time of enjambrazón. It is surrounded almost always by a group by obreras:"la cuts", that surrounds it in circle, they touch it with his antennas and they are controlling how many eggs put according to the necessities of the beehive.

The time of maturation of the queen from its appearance is:

Flight of direction: between 3º and 4º day

Flight of mating: between 4º and 10º day

Putting of the first egg: between 10º and 14º day

Although it has the possibility of flying only flies on two ocassions in his life of four years: the "nuptial flight or of mating" and during "enjambrazón".El nuptial flight makes it between the four  and ten days of been born. This flight is made in hours of the noon (commonly between the 11 and 16hs),  as long as the time is favorable.

The virgin queen before raising flight, tour around the beehive to orient itself. A direction  error could be fatal, since if when returning is mistaken of beehive it could be assassinated by intrusa.

Soon it is sent to the space followed by a bustle of drones that try to reach it. And only more hard resistant it manages to be reconciled and to fertilize the queen, but so large feat the very expensive payment, since, when coming off itself her, their genital organs are adhered to vulva of the queen and, because of the tear, is killed its.

The fertilization made by a drone in this flight reaches to him to the queen to put up to 3,000 eggs fertilized per day during its 4 years of life, although it is varying the amount of eggs according to the station of the year and in its oldness

The queen places an egg in each cell, when note that the cell is of greater size places a drone egg.

Worker

The life of a working bee can be divided in three phases: it raises, domestic bee and bee of field.

Within a beehive there are like minimum 20,000 workers, being able to arrive up to 60,000 at the time at which the flowering begins. The workers are of size smaller than the queen and the drones and  act different as according to their age. The bee begins its life like egg. After three days the egg becomes larva (it raises). This larva is fed continuously by the bees airplanes and increases of size of out of proportion form. Passed six days the feeding is interrupted, the cell is covered and the larva becomes crisálida. They are born to the 21 days after to have put the egg the queen. When they are born clean his body and meanwhile, bees are fed by the calls airplanes.

The possible tasks of a domestic bee are numerous. First that does it is to feed themselves and to complete his muscular and glandular development. More ahead they will solicit to other sorbos greater workers of honey of the cells without opercular and initiate the first tasks that consist of cleaning of the cells. Later it is dedicated to patrol the beehive and one third part of his time to sleep or to rest.  Of its routes by the beehive, our bee will be able to briefly be with the queen, forming part of the cut of the queen, cleaning and polishing to the queen in its displacements by the beehive, although this task is a fleeting event.  Once it breaks away from the enemy with the queen, will continue patrolling and cleaning. During this initial period although it will have passed most of his time in the young nest, our bee will have left to the outside briefly. During the first week their young  food glands begin to work and will be able to feed (reason why the flame bee airplane) larvae developing. Also they will begin to manipulate wax and to collaborate in the construction of cells and its cover. They will begin to work his secretory glands and its contribution to the construction of the honeycomb will be greater.  It will continue dedicating to the cleaning of the beehive, expelling rejected covers, dead bees and other rest. During the second week one will be in the periphery of the young, where it will be dedicated to gather polen deposited in the cells by the recolectoras bees that arrive from the outside. Its last two tasks as domestic bee is the one to fan to ventilate the beehive and to watch the entrance of the beehive.

It arrives the great day and it initiates his life of recolectora. The bee from field at the beginning of the 3ª week of life, leaves in search of polen: his first task outside the beehive. But ahead they begin to collect nectar, propóleo and water. On the intensity of its work it depends how much a worker lives. At time of great work (summer) in the beehive it lives between 3 and 6 weeks. In winter they can live on 4 to 5 months. The harvesting is the activity of greater power consumption of which the bee can undertake.

The workers have a species of canastitas to the sides of the back legs where they deposit polen extracted of the flowers El nectar transport it in the stomach, and have a sting that they use for defense. In case of puncture she recommends herself to extract the sting and to place an oxygenated drop of water or  ammoniac. The punctures attract the other bees by the scent of the poison, reason why it is necessary to take the due precautions.

Drone

They are the males. They have an only function: to fertilize the queen and to give heat to the beehive in the spring.

They take part in the nectar harvesting neither in the elaboration of honey nor in the defense of the beehive since they do not have sting. They eat the honey elaborated by many workers and sleep, for that reason, at times of drought or when she is scarce the food (generally  at the end of spring or beginnings of the summer, just before I castrate) the workers are in charge to eliminate them.
 

Camera of young

 The young camera  is the honeycomb or place of the honeycomb where the queen deposits eggs or queresas to be repoblando the beehive according to the necessity of this one. Normally this camera is located in the center of the beehive, where the greater heat of the beehive is concentrated. Young pictures only are in the heat of spring until in the border honeycombs when the queen tries to enjambrar  to leave the beehive and to locate a new colony in a new place.

Normally the beekeepers make this cluster of bess to avoid that this beehive is very weak.