WHAT ARE API CORES?

The cores of bees are the formation of new colonies by man in order to increase the number of bees and then double a swarm.

When a family of bees is swarming for survival, a major swarm is taken from which aqueen bee is taken and placed within this family. Of course the Queen carries all the worker bees.

This step allows you to generate a new swarm. This procedure can be done by Natural or artificial swarning and therefore created by man, in this case by the beekeeper. In essence, the creation of bees is a process that takes its cue from the hand of man and consists in the generation of a new colony from a swarm of bees in order to multiply the units available for the production of honey or wax.

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW WE GENERATE API CORES?

As we just mentioned, the nuclei of bees are nothing but a new colony of bees. In total within these APIs we can find units necessary for the transport of food stocks, awell-developed queen Bee (possibly with an already hatched broil) and a well-developed Combs Branch .

The combs are the structures composed of cells where the Queen is used to lay eggs.

The greater the lifespan of these APIs the greater the value. Because it means that inside it are developing other queen bees that replace the old one after two or three broodes have made it exhausted and unable to continue the reproduction.

The formation of new colonies and new bee nuclei has already been mentioned when we talked about the swarning and above all it is inherent with the displacement of swarms from one place to another just to create a new colony.

BEE CORE TRAINING: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

The benefits of the formation of new colonies are many and are certainly much greater than the disadvantages.

Among the most important advantages there are definitely the contemplation of a natural swarf because the formation of the new nuclei is carried out by moving the combs with hatched and bees from the hives preparing for the swarling.

This practice, we remember, weakens the main colony or main swarm but having already the presence of bees to be able to develop as queens surely the probability of bringing this alarm back in a short time is very high.

Another advantage to be reckoned with is the strengthening of the species. Because for the creation of a new API core they will start to build increasingly strong, vigorous and resistant hives by synthesizing the information they possess for the elimination of potential inheritance errors such as lower resistance to Various pathologies and poor productivity.

In short, this type of chain production seems almost to take place as a computer that processes information with the utmost precision to get the best result in a decidedly record time.

This process of improving the production chain is also transformed into another advantage for the core of bees and that is to work less to obtain a result of quality rather than quantity.

The cores of bees then have the merit of being able to reinforce the main hive, especially if it weakens because of the swarning.

Among all the advantages that of the genetic inheritance is perhaps the most important and useful. The renewal and above all, as mentioned earlier, the improvement of the genetic inheritance is due precisely to the formation of nuclei of bees. The better and greater the production of higher and better bees will be the quality of honey and wax you'll derive from them in the future.

Let us now turn to the sore notes and that is the disadvantages in the formation of bees nuclei. Well let's remember firstly that the production of bee cores is due to the hand of man and therefore it is not a natural process.

This you have already understood involves all the disadvantages of an artificial production such as a percentage of the lifespan of bees lower than the natural process and consequently also a lower production (always The data to a natural process).

In addition, to prevent some bees from returning to the mother swarm, it is necessary to move the new APIs to a significant distance from the main colony and then at least 2.5/3.5 km. More than a disadvantage this is an inconvenience.

This is necessary because if too many bees were to come back then there would be an excessive reduction in the number of units of the newly formed API Core , making it virtually impossible to survive in the near future.

THE RULES FOR THE FORMATION OF A CORE OF SELF-RESPECTING BEES

To obtain bee cores simply proceed with the swarning of one or more bee colonies. They usually take the strongest.

To form cores it is necessary to respect some simple rules:

1. Create new colonies after the birth of drones, queens and royal cells.
2. The families assigned to the formation of the bees must be carefully followed in the preceding autumn and in the spring which is the period in which the natural swarling begins to occur
3. Assisting the family of bees destined for the new nucleus making sure that they never miss food stocks of all kinds.
4. use combs from multiple colonies, monitoring only the peaceful coexistence between them.
5. form an API core of up to 3 combs to prevent the bees from swarping because of overcrowding and follow the Queen during fertilization. This especially if the nucleus is equipped with real cell.
6. In the case of bee core production after the natural swarning period, which usually closes in June, it must have a fertilated queen or at the limit a royal cell (usually produced artificially by beekeepers).

This time the combs number must be at least 4. Needless to say that because the process of core production is taking place at a time of the year unusual, the bees must be constantly monitored and you have to run for repairs in case of problems of all kinds. Just like we do.

In short, you'll understand certainly that the cores of bees are not a walk and that must be followed with passion and hard Lena. In some cases they should even be helped in the supply of support supplies.

In other cases, then, it may occur that they need help with the grafting of other combs in particular conditions. This is mainly done to give the Queen the possibility to have free cells in which to deposit the eggs.

In the end we can feel satisfied when at the end of its development, the core of API created contains 5 combs all containing adult and well-developed bees.