RU2290790C2 - Queen bee cell breeding cup - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: apiculture, in particular, queen bee cell breeding cup.

SUBSTANCE: queen bee cell breeding cup is equipped with opening in its bottom, said bottom having variable thickness in the vicinity of opening: said thickness continuously reducing toward opening, and having zero thickness near opening contour. Cup of such structure allows bee larva to be transferred into cup in conjunction with wax cell bottom of bee combs. Cup may be also made combined with cell cover used for retention of queen bee cell after sealing thereof by bees.

EFFECT: simplified and cheaper queen bee breeding process.

2 cl, 5 dwg

Description

The inventive device can be used in beekeeping, namely when hatching queen bees.

There are various ways of removing queen bees [1, 2].

The most widely used methods of artificial withdrawal of uterus. The device for removing uterus in these methods is a bowl - an enlarged cell made of wax or plastic.

The disadvantage of the device for removing the uterus in the form of a bowl of wax or plastic is the need to transplant a one-day bee larva from the cell of the honeycomb into the bowl, which is quite laborious and requires certain skills, special equipment is needed.

In the known method of Karl Jenter [2], plastic bowls with an opening in the bottom are used to remove the uterus, into which the bottom pin with a one-day bee larva is inserted, which is removed from a collapsible cell.

Such a bowl in terms of combination of features and the achieved effect is the closest to the claimed device. It is taken as a prototype of the claimed device.

The disadvantage of the method of K. Dzhenter is the high cost of the device for its implementation.

The claimed technical solution eliminates the noted drawback.

This is achieved by the fact that the bottom thickness of the known plastic bowl, the inner surface of which is oval and is part of an ellipsoid of revolution, is made variable in the vicinity of the hole, the thickness gradually decreasing when approaching the hole and disappears on the hole contour. This geometry of the bottom of the bowl allows you to abandon the use of collapsible honeycomb K. Dzhenter when hatching the uterus and carry out the transfer of the one-day larva into the bowl along with the bottom of the wax cell of the honeycomb.

To use the claimed bowls for the intended purpose, wax cells with one-day larvae are laid on a table and cut into strips, each of which is divided into fragments containing one cell with a larva. access to the bottom of the cell. Then the bowl is applied to the bottom of the cell, visually controlling the contact of the contour of the hole with the bottom of the cell and the alignment of the larva with the center of the hole. By pressing the bent petals to the walls of the bowl, they ensure the connection of the cut cell with the bowl. In this case, the bottom of the cell overlaps the hole in the bottom of the bowl and becomes its bottom, and the larva itself thereby appears at the bottom of the bowl.

Thus, the transfer of the larva into the bowl - the vaccine - is performed without using the collapsible honeycomb of K. Dzhenter or its analogues and without removing the larva from the bottom of the bee cell for transplanting into the bowl. At the same time, grafting of the larva into a bowl at the egg stage is simplified and possible.

The proposed variant of the bowl excludes possible damage to the larvae and, moreover, the eggs during transplantation, simplifies the procedure of moving the larva into the bowl, creates comfortable conditions for the larva, as when using C. Jenter’s cell. However, the cost of the inventive device is significantly lower than the cost of the cell K. Dzhenter.

The inventive bowl can be combined with the lid of the cell, which is used to save the queen bee sealed. To isolate the mother liquor, rebuilt and sealed by bees on a bowl aligned with the lid, it is enough to attach the cage body to the lid fixed together with the bowl and the mother liquor on the turntable of the grafting frame. This combination eliminates the intermediate operations associated with removing the mother liquor from the grafting frame and placing it in the cell.

Figure 1 schematically shows a General view of the inventive device, figure 2 - a bowl with a larva on its bottom after inoculation, figure 3 - the same bowl placed on the turntable of the grafting frame, figure 4 - a bowl, combined with the cell cover for preserving the mother liquor and (or) the uterus emerging from the mother cell, in Fig. 5, the fixation of the bowl, combined with the cell cover, on the rotary bar of the grafting frame.

The device for withdrawing the uterus (Fig. 1) consists of a body - a bowl 1 with an opening 2 - and is equipped with wedge holders 3. The thickness of the bottom of the bowl in the vicinity of the hole is made variable and gradually decreases when moving to the hole, but disappears on the hole contour.

In figure 2, the bowl 1 (incision) is connected to the bottom 4 of the cut out cell of the honeycomb, 5 is the larva, 6 is the royal jelly, 7 are the wax petals obtained by cutting the cell walls and pressed to the bowl.

In Fig. 3, the bowl 1 with the larva is fixed on the rotary strip 8 of the grafting frame (the strip is cut along), 7 - wax petals obtained by cutting the cell walls and pressed to the bowl. Fixation is achieved by fixing the 3 bowls of the bowls on the turntable, for example, with brackets or rubber rings, and the bowl itself is recessed into the hole in the turntable.

Figure 4 shows a section of a bowl, combined with the lid of the cell to save the mother liquor: 1 - bowl, 9 - lid of the cell. Mounting wedges not shown. Figure 5 - the same bowl, combined with the lid of the cell to save the mother liquor, is fixed with rubber rings on the rotary bar of the grafting frame.

A grafting frame with larvae is placed in a kindergarten for feeding queen bees. Further, sealed mother liquors and (or) infertile queen mothers that were completed by bees on bowls are used to form new bee colonies or to replace old queens, to form bee packages for sale.

The introduction of the invention into the practice of beekeeping, due to the simplicity of the claimed device and the simplicity of the method of its application, will allow each beekeeper to independently raise queen bees and thereby increase the reproduction of bee colonies, increase the production of honey, royal jelly and other bee products, simplify and reduce the cost of hatching.

Information sources

1. Malkov V.V., A.G. Martynov, S.N. Nazin. Conclusion of queen bees: a practical guide. Ryazan. Publishing house "Russian word". 1994 .-- 103 p.

2. Simankov M.K. The use of honeycomb K. Dzhenter for the withdrawal of the uterus of Central Russian honey bees (Apis mellifera mellifera): Training manual / Perm. state ped un-t - Perm, 2002 .-- 50 p. + Adj (2 p.). - Bibliography: p. 44-46.

Claims (2)

1. A bowl for withdrawing queen bees in the form of a plastic cup, the inner surface of which is oval and is part of an ellipsoid of revolution, with a hole in the bottom, characterized in that the thickness of the bottom in the vicinity of the hole is made variable, and the thickness gradually decreases when approaching the hole and disappears on the hole contour. 2. Bowl according to claim 1, characterized in that it is combined with the lid of the cell to save the mother liquor and / or uterus emerging from it.

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