1314results about "Beehives" patented technology

An isolated nucleic acid agent is disclosed comprising a nucleic acid sequence which downregulates expression of a gene product of a Varroa destructor mite. Compositions comprising same and uses thereof are also disclosed.

A multi-layer overlaying circular frameless apis cerana cerana beehive capable of greatly reducing labor capacity and producing pure primitive ecological apis cerana cerana honey is an integral beehive formed by overlaying a plurality of circular following beehives on a circular base plate machined with a concave natural deslagging slope surface, a deslagging hole, a nest entrance and a feeding hole, placing four metal pads of the following beehives on each following beehive, covering the top following beehive with a circular beehive cover with a vent hole, and vertically penetrating and connecting the base plate and connection holes of a four-corner connection clamp on the box cover through four L-shaped reinforcing bars. Therefore, the apis cerana cerana group can naturally form a sphere apis cerana cerana bulk in the beehives, and nests from the top down; and if the stored honey at the uppermost layer is mature, sealed and covered, the four L-shaped reinforcing bars and the corresponding metal pads are detached, the following beehive at the uppermost layer is transversely cut to take out the honey, and then is additionally arranged on the base plate at the bottom layer; and the survival and propagation of the apis cerana cerana after the honey is taken out are not influenced, the output and quality of apis cerana cerana honey are improved, and the multi-layer overlaying circular frameless apis cerana cerana beehive has a vital significance for apis cerana cerana protection.

A modified comb (10, 10A, 10B or 10C) for heating drone bee larvae and pupae in a hive (100) is described. The comb includes wires (11, 11A, 11B, 11C, 11D) for treat the drone larvae and pupae(P) to kill the mites (M) on the larvae and pupae. By this method, the mites are prevented from infesting the hive.

A device 30 and associated process are described for hygienizing and warming beehives aiming at the improvement of the production of organic bee produce, said device comprising providing a bee box 1 containing frames 5 for honey production and bee housing, one frame 5a being left for inserting a ceramic block 11 provided with at least one row containing from 8 to 32 channels 11a and where the lower and upper ends of these channels 11a are opened towards the interior of the beehive, channels 11a being thermally insulated from the remaining of frame 5a with the aid of wings 15a, 15b and traversed by conducting filaments 14a, 14b connected to an energy source 20 through wire 7, whereby whenever electrical current traverses said filaments 14a, 14b the temperature inside said channels attains from 300-350° C. with the consequent heating of circulating air in the beehive by convection, the warmed air from the upper ends of said channels creating a negative pressure in the lower ends of same, whereby the outer colder air is sucked towards the interior of said channels, alternatively by using a fan or air pump, with the consequent extermination of the microorganisms present in the air as they cross warmed channels 11a.

A method of and system for using sounds produced by bees flying near a beehive entrance enable a beekeeper to assess the operational productivity of the beehive. In a preferred embodiment, the method entails positioning an acoustic pickup device, such as a microphone, at a location to pick up and provide an audio signal representing sounds produced by bees flying around the beehive entrance. The flying bees produce the sounds either while hovering in the vicinity of the beehive or while launching from locations around the beehive entrance to forage for pollen and nectar. The audio signal is analyzed to distinguish the sound of launching flying bees from the sound of ambient background noise.

A frame and comb foundation and method for controlling Varroa mites in a honeybee hive. In a first embodiment the invention is comprised of half portions of the frame and comb foundation in combination with a power supply, heating element, electronic control unit (ECU), temperature sensor and an optional diagnostic system. The ECU which may be mounted on the frame and comb foundation or, in a separate enclosure is comprised of a micro-controller and other circuitry. The temperature sensor is mounted adjacent to the heating unit. The power supply may mobile or stationary, such as a battery or line current.In a second embodiment, the frame and comb foundation is interconnected with similar frame and comb foundations in multiple hives that include individual ECU's and temperature sensors and individual wireless electronic communication systems, a single power source and individual heating elements. The multiple temperature sensors are mounted adjacent to the heating elements. The ECU's are mounted on the frame and comb foundations or in separate enclosures. The ECU's are comprised of logic circuits or micro-controllers and other circuitry. The power source may be a mobile or stationary source such as a battery.

The invention discloses a conveniently cleaned Chinese bee hive which comprises a bottom box. A box cover is arranged on the upper portion of the bottom box, more than two honeycombs are arranged in the bottom box, the space in the bottom box is divided into two symmetric breeding chambers by a first vertical queen excluder, a drawable bearing plate is arranged on a bottom plate of the bottom box, a baffle plate is vertically fixed at a draw-out end of the bearing plate, honeycomb doors are arranged on two sides of the baffle plate respectively, and the baffle plate is hermetically fastened with the front end face of the bottom box when the bearing plate is not drawn out of the bottom box. By the aid of the drawable bearing plate arranged on the bottom plate of the bottom box, broken combs, wax-moth larvae and impurities in the bottom box can be conveniently cleaned and arranged, and the inside of the box is kept clean and neat. Besides, a partition plate and / or a second vertical queen excluder are arranged on two sides of the inside of the bottom box respectively, and a honey storage area and a breeding area are respectively meticulously managed. Honey is collected from the honeycombs in the honey storage area without opening the breeding area, so that larvae and bee pupae cannot be injured.

A treatment agent delivery system which includes at least one distribution surface adapted to be located in close proximity to an insect travel route and a spray delivery system including a nozzle, electronic controls and a battery, with the spray delivery system adapted to spray at least one treatment agent onto said distribution surface.

An apparatus for providing solitary bees for pollination, comprising a bee nest and a portable on-site incubator. The bee nest can comprise a plurality of corrugated sheets, each sheet comprising a plurality of flutes. When the sheets are stacked together, the flutes form cavities arranged in a tessellating pattern. The portable incubator can comprise a chamber for holding dormant adult bees, an opening providing access to the chamber, a passage for exiting of bees from the chamber, means for heating the chamber, means for controlling chamber temperature, and a power supply. Dormant adult bees placed in the incubator are stimulated into activity and leave the incubator. Female bees that leave later lay eggs in the bee nest.

The invention provides an original ecological beekeeping method and an original ecological beehive thereof which can provide honey for a plurality of times. The invention employs the original ecological beehive with movable covers on the top and the bottom and supporting strips at the middle part. Beekeeping and honey obtaining steps are that the following: 1. the bees are led to spit wax and make comb in the beehive in the state of standing stably; a honey storing area is arranged on the top of the comb, at the bottom of which is a breeding area; when the honey storing area is full, the covers are closed; then the honey is cut down and collected from the honey storing area, while the cutting operation can not exceed the supporting strips in the middle part; 2. after honey collection is finished, the body of the beehive is turned upside down; currently, the breeding area is at the upper part; after larva bee are out of the beehive, the breeding area is changed into a honey storing area which can store honey continuously; while the lower part is the cut original honey storing area, on which the bee can continuously spit wax and make comb to form a new breeding area; when the newly formed honey storing area is full and covered by the covers, the step 1 is repeated and the honey storing area is cut down to collect honey; 3. the step 2 is repeated.

Disclosed herein is a method of analyzing portable Internet signals in a measuring instrument. The method includes the steps of (a) acquiring synchronization using a preamble included in a currently received frame, (b) acquiring the access parameters of a DL_MAP included in the frame, and checking the validity of the DL_MAP, (c) if, as a result of the check at step (b), the DL_MAP is determined to be valid, acquiring downlink parameters and burst configuration information by interpreting the DL_MAP, and (e) performing a variety of diagnoses, including evaluation of signal quality for each burst, using the parameters and the burst configuration information.

A processing unit for solitary bees is utilized in a method of timely providing a sufficient number of bees for pollinating a flowering crop. The processing unit provides secure storage for the solitary bees at every stage of their life cycle, and provides precise control of environmental conditions to ensure that the bees complete each stage of their life cycle in the optimum state of health and viability, and to ensure that adult bees emerge in close agreement with predicted emergence. The processing unit provides for protection against parasites, predators and pathogens, and may provide for feeding and mating of the bees. The processing unit may be used with any type of solitary bee nest. The processing unit may be fabricated in modularized components, allowing for increased capacity as required.

The present application includes a system configured to monitor and track the health and productivity of a beehive. Information associated with environmental conditions around the beehive are monitored along with conditions inside the beehive. This information is processed through a control system and compared to baseline expected values. Communication data is transmitted by the control system to a remote device to notify the beekeeper of the present and past health and productivity of the beehive. The beekeeper may remotely operate one or more functions to affect the beehive. Additionally, an electronic monitoring device is used to track the number of bees that leave and enter the beehive. A dual-gate design is used to determine the direction of travel of each bee so as to determine a more accurate reflection of the health of the beehive.

Disclosed is an automatic shading cover type full-perspective constant-temperature beehive which can be manually arranged and in which motions of bee colonies can be observed in all dimensions. The automatic shading cover type full-perspective constant-temperature beehive consists of a base box, a heat-preservation insulation layer, an automatic constant-temperature device, a temperature display setter, a manual air adjusting window, beehive legs, a cover plate ring, an air vent, a beehive door hole, a feed hole, a strip-shaped hole, a bee-isolation breathable frame and a slag-falling preventive baffle plate. A transparent beehive body is mounted on the manufactured automatic constant-temperature base box, and is covered by a transparent top cover plate with an exhaust hole and by a sunshading heat-preservation outer cover after bee colonies are filled therein. By removing the outer cover, local honey and powder resources and the most beneficial temperature in the beehive for living and breeding of the bee colonies and the like can be known at anytime and anywhere. The automatic shading cover type full-perspective constant-temperature beehive is beneficial to scientific research and bee field management, can be directly used for production, meets requirements for perspective view and has the advantages of no vibration and noise, low energy consumption and convenience in use.

An integrated bee monitoring system for monitoring bee colonies in a hive has a central microprocessor, at least two input transducers and at least two output signals. Input transducers include sensors which report the status of the colonies including colony weight, temperature, and relative humidity. A bee counter can also be included in the system to indicate colony activity. A bee counter is disclosed which uses an amplifying, multiplexer hysteresis and debounce circuitry to enable rapid and accurate polling of a single passageway. Information collected can be retrieved by read-out or liquid crystal display. Alternatively, information ca be retrieved by telephone line or wireless communications. The bee monitoring system also can remotely control peripheral devices such as feeders or chemical samplers.

The invention discloses an intelligent bee keeping beehive capable of automatically dispelling mites. The intelligent bee keeping beehive comprises a base, wherein a bee keeping beehive is arranged on the base, the top of the bee keeping beehive is open, a bee keeping beehive cover sleeves the bee keeping beehive, and the internal wall of the bee keeping beehive cover is in sliding connection with the external wall of the bee keeping beehive; a plurality of honeycombs which are arranged in parallel are arranged in the bee keeping beehive, a honeybee through hole I is formed in a side wall of the bee keeping beehive, and a honeybee through hole II is also formed in a side wall of the bee keeping beehive cover; and the honeybee through hole II is connected with a mite dispelling box, which is arranged at one side of the bee keeping beehive cover, through a honeybee passage, a valve is arranged in the honeybee passage, and the mite dispelling box comprises an outer-layer heating chamber and an inner-layer honeybee chamber. According to the intelligent bee keeping beehive disclosed by the invention, conditions of honeybees of a door of the bee keeping beehive can be monitored at any time, and bee mites are dispelled in time if the condition that house bees with incomplete wings are present or worker bees drag dead honeybee bodies is discovered; and the bee mite dispelling equipment is simple and is convenient in use, and bee mite dispelling can be directly carried out in the bee keeping beehive without taking out the honeybees, so that the management of the honeybees is facilitated.

The invention discloses a Boya (the name of the product, in Chinese means erudition and elegance) beehive and auxiliary equipment. The Boya beehive and the auxiliary equipment comprise a box, a Boya vent pipe, a Boya functional box, a Boya feeder, a Boya combined frame, a Boya queen bee isolator, a Boya protective table queen bee cage, a Boya honeycomb door, and Boya lantern rings, wherein the Boya vent pipe is arranged in the box to allow ventilation instead of light transmitting; the Boya honeycomb door can isolate the queen bee and can be used for a long time; the Boya functional box can collect the queen bee and drones and guard against theft; the Boya feeder cannot drown bees, occupies a little of space, but is high in capacity; the Boya queen bee isolator can store and isolate the queen bee for a long time; the Boya protective table queen bee cage can protect the table and cage the queen bee for a short time; as for the Boya combined frame, the frame bodies and frame lugs are separately designed, the frame bodies and the frame lugs are connected through the Boya lantern rings, and can be quickly disassembled. The high box is adopted to mount the multilayered frames; the multilayered frames can be changed up and down, so as to prolong the service life of the honeycomb; the frames of the single-queen-bee box, the double-queen-bee box and the mating box can be in common use; insulating layers are arranged in the box body to insulate the heat; in winter, one to two layers of the frames can be only mounted, and the bees under the frame are naturally in groups to pass the winter.

As described below, the present invention provides methods and compositions for controlling a honey bee parasitic mite. In addition, the invention features compositions useful for the treatment or prevention of a parasitic mite infestation in a honey bee hive.

A horizontal and super combined beehive comprises a wide-comb box, a frame support, a powder-releasing cover, a pollen box, a connector, a degummed drape, an inserted frame, an integrated frame and a wax comb foundation with suspension loops. The wide-comb box is characterized in that the both ends of the box are used as the breeding areas for two swarms of bees, a super is supported above the middle production area, frame queen excluders are used to form a working bee centralized production area, the areas are covered; the powder-releasing cover is bottomless, pollens and honey on a powder-leaking railing pedal with anti-theft gantry boxes on both sides directly leak in the pollen box at the bottom; the connected box is coarsely adjusted by a multi-teeth hook and finely adjusted and connected firmly by a screw crow bar through screws; the laps and edgings of the inserted frame are integrated, an upper beam and a lower beam are inserted in the upper and lower grooves of two edgings to integrate, the upper beam is thin, the lower beam and the edgings are provided with grooves to be inserted in the comb foundation; a wide hook with the same width and an adjuster are hung on the wax comb foundation for tightening; the laps are integrated with a frame-distance clip and connected with the upper beam through a downward slope, the tops of comb-forming frame supports are butted to each other and are tightly pressed by the degummed drape and the inner frame of the box cover, the distance of the frames is standard so that people can not stung by bees; and the top of each lap is provided with a handle, thus the laps can be fast gripped outside the box. The wide-comb box can be used to multiply the efficiency, thus being suitable to be used for beekeeping around the world.

The present invention is directed to methods and compositions to prevent or treat a honey bee pathogen infection (e.g., Melissococcus plutonis, Paenibacillus larvae, Ascosphaera apis). Specifically, the invention provides for the treatment or prevention of European or American foulbrood or chalkbrood. In addition, the invention provides methods for controlling Varroa mites that can weaken a hive or act as vectors for bacterial diseases. In further embodiments, the invention provides for the treatment or prevention of hive infestations with Lepidopteran pests, such as the wax moth (Galleria mellonella).

The core board of composite honeycomb plate includes two mother boards comprising covering board and cylindrical or conic pins arranged regularly on the covering board, and these two mother boards are superposed with the cylindrical or conic pins being inserted mutually. The present invention has integral structure of covering board and pins, and thus has high mechanical strength, high production efficiency and low cost. The present invention may be used in different industries, including building, decoration, household appliance, automobile, train, etc.

A Small Hive Beetle trap, which replaces the bottom board of beehives, includes a frame having three walls and a top surface, a trap plate, an entry means, and a trapping means. The trapping means provides a dark environment attractive to small hive beetles and contains a small hive beetle attractant made from pollen dough and inoculated with yeast that produces small hive beetle attracting volatiles.

The present invention is a system to detect the presence of a queen bee, in a hive. The first system includes an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag (secured to the queen) and a RFID detection device secured adjacent the hive opening that sends an output that indicates the presence or absence of the queen bee. In a second embodiment, a bit of metal (thin foil) can be secured to the queen by means of an adhesive, and a metal detector can be positioned by the hive opening to detect the metal, and send an output that indicates the presence or absence of the queen bee. In a third embodiment, one or more infrared cameras can be positioned adjacent the hive entrance, coupled with detection scanning software that can detect the difference between a drone, a worker and a queen bee, and indicate the presence or absence of the queen bee.

The invention comprises a convenient beehive consisting of a nest frame support, degummed covering cloth, a powder-removing cover, a pollen box, a connector, a plug-in nest frame, an integrated nest frame and a wax nest foundation with hanging rings, and is characterized in that the powder-removing cover is erected on a box leak powder grate pedal, and pollen and honey water are leaked into the pollen box at the bottom part via a powder grate; the beehive is connected in a multi-tooth hook group for rough adjustment, and a thread of a spiral crowbar is used for fine adjustment and tight prying; the nest frame is integrally formed, laps of the plug-in nest frame are integrated with edge strips, the upper and the lower hanging rings at two ends of the was nest foundation are hung on wide hanging hooks in two edge strip bare cover type mouths, an upper beam and a lower beam are also tightened when being inserted in an upper groove and a lower groove of two edge strips, and a regulating buckle which is not tightened is buckled in the group; the upper beam is thin, the grooves are formed on the edge strips and the lower beam for mounting a plastic nest foundation; the laps are integrated with a frame distance clamp, a lower slope is connected with the upper beam, a frame and the top part of the nest frame support push against each other and compressed by a bee separating plate and a cover frame without gaps, and the frame distance is standard and difficult to kill bees due to extrusion and avoid the bees from stinging people; pull handles are arranged at the top ends of the laps, thereby being convenient to grab outside the beehive; and the degummed covering cloth with holes is used for covering the bees, thereby collecting more gum and realizing fast degumming. The convenient beehive can improve the effectiveness by a plurality of times and is applicable to world beekeeping.

The invention provides a bee raising box for protected crop pollination. The bee raising box consists of a box cover (1), a box body (2) and a nest frame (7); one side of the box body (2) is provided with a nest door (3) through which bees enter and exit, a plurality of groups of nest frame fixing clips (6) for fixing the nest frame (7) are arranged in the box body (2), and one side of the box body (2) opposite to the nest door is provided with a ventilation window (5); and a feeder (4) is arranged in the box body (2), and the feeder is arranged on any lateral surface vertical to the nest door. The bee raising box has the advantages of small volume, light weight, convenient carry, management and operation, and good heat insulation performance and ventilation performance; and the internal feed can meet the requirement of long-time pollination of swarms so that the bee raising box can play a role in pollination of the bees in a greenhouse and has significance for high quality and yield of the protected crops.

The invention belongs to the technical field of beekeeping and particularly relates to a culture method for Chinese honeybees. The culture method for the Chinese honeybees comprises the steps: S1. providing beehives; S2. carrying out hiving; S3. carrying out propagation period management; S4. carrying out bee colony queen breeding; S5. carrying out swarming; S6. carrying out bee colony merging; S7. carrying out honey-getting; S8. enabling bee colonies to live through summer and winter; S9. feeding the bee colonies and preventing bee theft; S10. carrying out disease and insect pest control on the Chinese honeybees; S11. disinfecting beekeeping equipment; S12. preventing and treating chaos bee clusters; and S13. preventing and treating swarming fever. According to the method, the provided beehives facilitate bee colony observation, swarming and merging and can help the bee colonies to safely live through summer, absconding is reduced, the beehives are warm in winter and cool in summer, the bee colonies have no need of migration, and feeding can be carried out at fixed points; the yield and quality of honey can be improved; and the culture method disclosed by the invention can be used for solving the difficult problems in a Chinese honeybee culture process that the colony population is small and the quantity of plant diseases and insect pests is large.

A nest for solitary bees may be fashioned from a rectangular solid of either a solid matrix or a number of nest elements. Each side of the nest contains a multiplicity of apertures, where each aperture provides a nesting cavity for the bees. Each aperture has an open end and a closed end. If fashioned from individual nest elements, the orientation of the apertures may be adjusted as desired, such that each element may be stacked upon an adjacent element in one of four orientations, so that the cavities of one element may be at 0°, 90°, 180° or 270° relative to an adjacent element. If desired, the aperture density of each side may be adjusted as desired. The configuration of the nesting cavities of the present invention reduces congestion at nest entrances and provides shelter to the bees from predators and the environment.

The invention discloses a vertically-split type movable bee frame. The vertically-split movable bee frame can be used when being vertically split from the center and being re-assembled. To form a half frame, a metal edging is fixed on the end face of a wooden top bar, a metal lug is mounted on the end face of the wooden top bar, a wooden edging is fixed on the fixing face of the edging of the wooden top bar, and a wooden lower bar is fixed at lower ends of the metal edging and the wooden edging; to form the integral movable bee frame, the metal lug on one of the half frames is removed, the half frame without the metal lug is combined with the other half frame with the metal lug, a lower-bar connecting clamp is mounted at the joint of lower bars of the two half frames, and the lower-bar connecting clamp is fixed through wooden bolts. When the vertically-split type movable bee frame is split for use, clotting of bees and constant temperature are facilitated, the bees are enabled to reproduce and restore rapidly in early spring, and newly-separated weak groups are enabled to grow rapidly into strong groups. The vertically-split type movable bee frame is rapid and convenient to assemble and split, and assembling and splitting of the frame do not affect honeycomb inspection, oviposition of queen bees, honey and pollen storage by the bees, manual honey picking and migratory feeding.

A bee house for housing a plurality of bee hives includes a generally rectangular frame and four upwardly extending opaque fixed walls fixed to the frame and a gable roof having a generally triangular cross-section. The roof has a peak and a pair of eaves or outer edges below its peak and defines a longitudinally extending opening between a pair of roof panels at or along the peak. The bee house also includes a plurality of shelves for holding three bee hives on each shelf and an air-conditioner for maintaining the bee house at a temperature of between about 25° C. and 35 C.