SWARMS OF BEES

Today we talk about swarms of bees and their valuable contribution to generate excellent honey and fit into an ecosystem of which also benefit plants and trees adjacent to them.

Especially when we talk about swarms of bees the less experienced think of the classic hive seen and revised on TV.

While the more experienced think of the swarling, which we are going to talk about shortly and a type of management of insects more focused and prudent.

We who are experts in the field can therefore illustrate the swarning that is the way that we beekeepers help the families of bees to reproduce.

BUT WHY SHOULD BEEKEEPERS EVER HAVE TO HELP THE REPRODUCTION OF BEE SWARMS THROUGH SWARLING?

Soon said. The families of bees (not all) can be considered as a single organism. A separate unit.

This is because a single individual of the Bees swarm is not able to survivealone. He would die in no time without being able to reproduce and continue the family generation.

So we can talk about Bee swarm and Bee colony. A colony is effectively formed when there is aqueen bee.

Now we are in a topic a bit ' more technical and a little ' more complicated about the swarms of bees so we hope to give you as much information as possible in the clearest and most exhaustive way you can have.

CREATION OF A COLONY. DEEPENING OF BEES ' SWARMS

Having more than one family of bees, we identify one that we call the primary swarm, where the oldest queen bee is present.

Now we will try to form a new colony by moving the Queen bee and the worker bees in the family that still must develop properly.

WHY BRING THE WORKER BEES TOO?

Worker bees have a key role to play in supporting the Swarm's ecosystem. They are the ones who do the dirty work in short.

This is because they were previously rendered sterile by the Queen's pheromones. However, this can also be done for the cohesion of colonies. But let's skip this detail.

The colony now has a new queen bee But in the meantime in the main bee swarm we proceeded to develop one or even more of a new queen bee that will take the place of the newly moved queen.

MORE QUEEN BEES IN A SWARM OF BEES?

Absolutely not! It's a condition that would lead to chaos. But it is possible to move them and leave only one in such a way that you can have two advantages:

1. Save the swarm of main bees from which we left.
2. generate as many bee swarms as the number of Queen bees advancing from the main swarm. This process is called secondary swarning.
3. In the presence of an old queen there will be a couple of cycles of reproduction to enlarge the swarm of bees and to start to breed a new queen bee that will replace it when it is exhausted from the various clutches.
4. In the presence of a new and therefore Virgin Queen (case more suitable for the secondary swarms) if the Queen were to unfortunately be killed the swarm would be before certain death because the Queen as a Virgin did not produce a brood from which Develop and breed a second queen bee.

There is even the possibility of creating a tertiary swarning But it is usually very rare. By the way every swarming that is performed leads to a weakening of the main bee swarm.

So it would be better to avoid a third swarning.

However, these minor swarming now possess a new Virgin Queen bee newly developed by the main swarm. Not bad because the secondary swarm is still small compared to the main one.

SCIAMI DI API NATURALI O ARTIFICIALI?

Esistono entrambi i casi perché l’istinto delle api porta ad una sciamatura naturale in determinati periodi dell’anno. Parliamo da aprile a giugno di solito. In questo caso sono le api esploratrici a trovare un nuovo luogo in cui formare una nuova colonia. Trovato il punto tornano a chiamare lo sciame.

Ora ci sono due casi:

Ad ogni modo l’insediamento di una nuova colonia è avvenuto e quindi possiamo dire che il nostro sciame di api secondario è pronto per evolversi grazie alla cura di noi apicoltori.

Il processo naturale avviene in determinati periodi dell’anno come già ti abbiamo detto, mentre la sciamatura fatta dall’uomo che produce nuovi nuclei di api durante tutto l’anno è possibile a patto che l’apicoltore presti molta cura e dedizione a tale sciame di api.

Lo sciame di api principale si è ridotto per favorire la nascita di quello secondario e così facendo si è indebolito ma può contare su un rapido rinfoltimento delle proprie fila grazie all’ape regina.

A COSA SERVONO DUNQUE GLI SCIAMI DI API?

Già, qual è il punto della vicenda? Beh considera che quando uno sciame passa da una colonia all’altra per costruire il suo alveare di cera produce e trasporta una quantità sorprendente di miele. Dal miele loro ricavano nutrimento e materiale primario per secernere la cera.

Ci sono poi altri passaggi più complicati che non stiamo a spiegarti. Sappi solo che gli sciami di api sono una risorsa indispensabile per la produzione di miele e di cera e sono parte integrante di un ecosistema a cui l’uomo deve fare solo attenzione che vada tutto per il verso giusto e fili tutto liscio come l’olio.

Fare l’apicoltore è una soddisfazione immensa e il solo studio dei comportamenti di questi insetti è uno stimolo quotidiano.

Adesso che hai tutte queste informazioni non vorresti produrre il tuo sciame di api e fare una sciamatura prendendo uno sciame principale per ricavarne uno secondario?

La natura alle volte ci mette davanti delle meraviglie indescrivibili che l’uomo non può fare altro che ammirare e contemplare. Per la nostra esperienza gli sciami di api sono uno di questi.

SWARMS OF NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL BEES?

There are both cases because the bee instinct leads to a natural swarning at certain times of the year. We speak from April to June usually. In this case the Explorer Bees Find a new place to form a new colony. Found the point back to call the swarm.

Now there are two cases:

However, the settlement of a new colony has happened and so we can say that our swarm of secondary bees is ready to evolve thanks to the care of US beekeepers.

The natural process takes place at certain times of the year as we have already told you, while the man-made swarling that produces new bee cores throughout the year is possible as long as the beekeeper pays a lot of care and dedication to that swarm of bees.

The main bee swarm has shrunk to favour the birth of the secondary one and in doing so has weakened but can count on a rapid redevelopment of its ranks thanks to the Queen Bee.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE SWARMS OF BEES?

Yes, what's the point of the story? Well consider that when a swarm goes from one colony to another to build its wax hive it produces and carries a surprising amount of honey. From honey they get nourishment and primary material to secrete wax.

There are other more complicated passages that we are not going to explain to you. Just know that the swarms of bees are an indispensable resource for the production of honey and wax and are an integral part of an ecosystem to which man must only pay attention that goes all the right way and wires everything as smooth as oil.

Making the beekeeper is an immense satisfaction and the only study of the behaviors of these insects is a daily stimulus.

Now that you have all this information would you not want to produce your swarm of bees and make a swarming taking a main swarm to derive a secondary one?

Nature sometimes puts us in front of the indescribable wonders that man can do nothing but admire and contemplate. For our experience the swarms of bees are one of these.