Swarming and the power of families

Abstract

It has been proven that if the beekeeper does not take anti-swarm measures in advance, at the end of the month of April, many bee colonies turn to a swarm state and release the swarms. In some years, there is a lot of swarming, and in other years, there is no mail, so the beekeeper cannot say that due to swarming, the number of bee colonies will increase. The conducted studies have shown that under favorable agro-climatic conditions, the development of bee colonies occurs normally, after the appearance without a bribe period, bee colonies come into a swarm state. Creating a layer from the main colony leads bee colonies to workers. In the conditions of areas of republican subordination, the bulk went out to swarm between 10-13 hours, which is from 10 to 40%. The Buckfast breed was less quarrelsome compared to the Carpathian, more than 20% of the quarrelsome were not noticed during the observation, at that time the Carpathian breed swarming was up to 35%. The resulting first-generation crosses from the Carpathian and Buckfast were less quarrelsome than the main breeds.