1173 results about "Beehive" patented technology

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.

The present invention is directed to a composition and method of its use for controlling parasitic mites of honey bees. The miticide composition comprises a miticidally effective amount of one or more essential oils mixed with a dispersing agent, such as an organic and / or synthetic surfactant or emulsifier, and a water-based solution. Preferably, the water-based solution is a bee feed, such as those made from water and sugar, corn syrup and / or honey. A pH adjusting agent, such as an acid or buffer, can be utilized as needed. The miticide composition is sprayed into the bee hive to coat the bars, frames, comb and bees, as well as any mites therein. Contacting the mites with the composition kills them. The spraying also stimulates the bees grooming each other and themselves. The miticide composition is fed to the bees so any mites that feed on the bees are exposed to the composition.

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 is directed to water-dispersible, substantially homogeneous artificial diets and diet formulations which provide honey bees with a fully nutritious, complex mixture of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins in an easily digestible form. The diets of the invention support growth and development of honey bees, sustain brood rearing, and maintain hive vigor, and thus make possible the continuous rearing of bees using an artificial diet. The invention diets are useful for many purposes, and are particularly advantageous for providing nutrition sources for bees that are moved during commercial crop pollination or for other migratory beekeeping uses.

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.

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 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 invention is directed to methods and compositions for use to control parasitic mites of honey bees, particularly Varroa mites. In one aspect, the invention is directed to control of parasitic mites of honey bees wherein the active ingredient is a miticidally effective amount of a selected ketone or 1-heptanol, ethyl butyrate, benzaldehyde, heptaldehyde, or d-limonene. In a second aspect, the invention is directed to control of parasitic mites of honey bees wherein the active ingredient is an effective attractant amount of 2-heptanone. The attracted mites are then trapped or otherwise removed from the locus of the bees. The present invention is also directed to methods and compositions which include 2-heptanone to control hive invading pests of honey bees.

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.

The invention relates to the improvement on the ceramic beehive catalyst carrier, especially providing a ceramic beehive catalyst carrier with high mechanical strength and lower expansion parameter and preparing method. The invention is characterized in that: said beehive catalyst carrier is the alumina micro powder in 12-15%WT whose average particle diameter is less than 2 micron; the sheet kaolin and / or clay micro powder in 43-47% whose average particle diameter is less than 2 micron, the sheet steatite micro powder in 33-37% whose average particle diameter is 5-15 micron, and the fuse quartz in 6-12% whose average particle diameter is less than 2 micron to be mixed, molded and baked to attain the cordierite whose total amount is 92-96%, wherein, the Al203, MgO and SiO2 are each in 36-37%, 13.0-14.0% and 50-52%. The invention adds surface active agent in the mixture when in preparation. The prepared beehive cordierite total amount with 600 hole / square inch can reach 92-96%, the expansion parameter can reach 0.8X10-6 / Deg. C (800Deg. C to room temperature), and the factor of porosity can reach 39-40%. The invention can reduce the ignition temperature 25-40Deg. C, and reduce the tail gas discharge of nitrogen oxygen compound and carbon monoxide of vehicle 5-10% to meet the demand of Europe III standard.

The invention relates to a method for preparing TiO2 catalyst on the surface carrier of three-dimension beehive ceramic network, wherein it uses orthogonal method to prepare the titanic acid gel and the titanic acid gel with silver, iron, or lanthanum ion; uses dichroite beehive cermai and beehive ceramic as carrier; using gel-sol method to carry the titanic acid gel on the carrier. The load amount of optical catalyst film on the ceramic carrier is 0.21mg / cm2; the TiO2 diameter is 15-20nm; the thickness of load film is 300-400nm; when using it to purify the formaldehyde, and the initial density is 0.42-0.49mg / m3, the formaldehyde density will be lower than 72.2-74% after seven hours; when using it to disinfect, and the initial virus density is 554-924cfu / m3, the virus number is reduced 67.0-75.9% after 14.5h.

The invention relates to a bee breeding intelligent monitoring method and system. The intelligent monitoring method for bee breeding comprises the following steps: real-time collecting the hive environment of each hive of the target bee farm, the honey yield, the bee colony image in the hive and the bee colony sound intensity parameter; data mining being carried out on the historical data respectively, setting the threshold of environmental parameters of the beehive, the alarm threshold of no honey fetching time and the alarm threshold of bee activity, judging the environmental parameters of the beehive collected in real time, calculating the time of no honey fetching and whether the calculated bee activity is within the preset alarm threshold; if not, a manual intervention prompt messagebeing sent to the terminal. The method and the system of the invention realize the intelligent monitoring of the environment in the beehive and the activity of the bee swarm through the technology ofthe multi-source sensor, the wireless ad hoc network, the artificial intelligence and the like, monitor the horizontal comparison among different beehives, timely discover the abnormal state in the bee breeding process, prompt the artificial intervention, and improve the bee breeding production efficiency and scientificity.

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 a bee attractant and a method for field seed production and pollination of soybean hybrids. The method comprises the following steps of: selecting a field which is suitable for the growth of soybeans, duly sowing the soybean hybrids, and intercropping male parents and female parents across ridges; selecting a required amount of healthy pollination swarm within 5 to 7 days before pollination, and transporting into the field of the soybeans at the early flowering stage of the soybeans; feeding attractant syrup within 1 hour before the bee attractant is sprayed everyday or every other day in the seed production field of the soybean hybrids which just blossom; spraying the bee attractant on leaves of hybrid soybean plants of the male parents and the female parents in 1 to 5 ridges of field across 1 to 5 ridges of field every 1 to 3 days so as to ensure that bees are attracted into the field and fall down to the leaves of the hybrid soybean plants to eat the syrup; spraying the attractant on two sides of stalks of the hybrid soybean plants to attract the bees to fall down to hybrid soybeans to collect so as to pollinate the hybrid soybeans; and stopping spraying the bee attractant in rainy days, and restoring the spray when the weather gets better so as to maintain the attractant which can meet the requirements in the field. The attractant is obtained by mixing a honeycomb liquid, a flower aroma imitation liquid and syrup in a proportion and diluting by using quantitative cold boiled water.

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.

The invention provides a method for breeding honeybees and belongs to the technical field of animal husbandry. The breeding method comprises following steps: first, selecting a honeybee breeding ground, establishing beehives and eliminating honeybee mites by applying miticides to the beehive regularly; feeding with forage a during nights and additionally feeding with forage b during spawning period of queen bees; the forage a comprises following raw materials: honey, white sugar, banana juice, watermelon juice, sugar cane juice, apple juice, citric acid, edible salt and water; the forage b comprises following raw materials: pollen, soy flour and protein powder. The breeding method is safe and reliable; through breeding ground selecting, bee mite killing and scientific forage feeding, bee colony is gradually developed, wherein the forage is prepared from natural raw materials which can bring sufficient sugar and nutrient for the honeybees, promote well development of honeybees, reduce morbidity, increase the quality and edible safety of honey.

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).

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 discloses a method for breeding swarm having double queen bees and application thereof. The method comprises the steps of: breeding queen bees in last autumn breeding season so as to build a swarm having double queen bees, respectively placing a piece of pollen honeycomb, a piece of half-honey honeycomb, a queen bee and at least 1.5kg worker bees for breeding at two sides of a shutter of a beehive when the honeycomb of the swarm having double queen bees is capped in the coming spring breeding season, increasing the honeycomb at two sides of the shutter of the beehive till four honeycombs are arranged at each side when the first generation bees are bred and the second generation sub-honeycomb is closed with a cover, and putting on production when the swarm is strong. The swarm having double queen bees, which is acquired by using the breeding method, can be applied to rebuilding the pollination swarm, rebuilding the honey-gathering swarm, rebuilding the honey-producing swarm and rebuilding the multi-queen bee swarm. Based on the original bee breeding, by breeding the swarm having double queen bees and building the pollination swarm in time, the pollination task is finished without influencing the honey production so as to achieve the maximized benefit of bee-keeping industry.

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 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.