Dzhentersky honeycomb in beekeeping: instructions for the withdrawal of queens

Breeding the queen bee in beekeeping is one of the most important and difficult processes in this branch of agriculture. Without a high-quality, healthy and prolific queen of the hive, not a single gram of fragrant honey can be obtained. In addition, in her absence, after some time, the bee family may even die at all. therefore removal of the uterus is the main stage on the way to professional beekeeping.

In the modern world, it has long been customary to abandon old technology, but before beekeeping innovations of science began to reach only relatively recently. The first serious step to modernize the industry was the Dzhenter cell. The device helped not only to raise the queen bee breeding to an industrial level, but also to improve the breeding of bees to a new technical level. Let's see what is this device and how to use it correctly.

What is it?

Jentersky honeycomb It is a technical device with the help of which, at home, it is possible to put the queen bee on the industrial stream. At its core, this device is an artificial honeycomb for bees, the design of which allows in just a few weeks to get young, viable queen bees, capable of filling the family with new bees for quite a short period. Despite the fact that the design of this device is completely made of artificial materials, the bee family perfectly accepts the design and instantly populates the honeycomb with fertilized material.

The invention came out in wide light at the end of the 20th century. The main inventor of his was the world-famous German beekeeper and fighter commander Karl Genter. The ease and efficiency of this honeycomb is so fond of bee lovers that the technical innovation in a few years almost completely won the market for beekeeping products.

Honeycomb so strongly influenced the overall development of the industry that the inventor for his device soon received a gold medal from the World Federation of Beekeeping Associations. In addition, the affordable price of the Dzhentersky cell produced a revolution in the technique of breeding mother bees, which affected the overall development of this agricultural industry.

The main advantages of honeycomb Regarding other methods of cultivating queens are the following:

• transfer of young larvae occurs without direct contact with them, as a result, they are not damaged and do not dry out, which favorably affects their safety and viability in the future;
• the design allows you to transfer the larvae of a strictly defined age;
• when transferring the larva with a spatula, the embryo of the uterus falls on unusual milk, which is taken by beekeepers from adult insects. As a result, the quality of the queen bee is significantly deteriorating. In the Dzhentersky cell, the larva is transferred to a new place along with substances and their derivatives native to it;
• The honeycomb design simplifies the general procedure of the process, so even an amateur beekeeper, who is often not attentive and firm in hand, can start breeding queens.

Description of construction

Despite the complexity of the processes for which the Dzinger cell is designed, device design is quite simple and also not difficult in care and use. The shape of the device resembles a real honeycomb, which bees are able to build in natural conditions. The design is a two-sided plastic box with a special lid, which is used to isolate the uterus.

In addition, the design provides plastic lattices, which are similar in shape to natural honeycombs, plastic cups for the formation of bowls and caps with a bottom for bowls. Also, for convenience, the design provides special mounting screws and pipes made of plastic,which are used to fix the bowls. The body of the Dzhentersky cell is a plastic box with a partition in the center of it. The design dimensions are relatively small and are about 117x117 mm. The surface of the box looks the same as the present base of a honeycomb of bee hives. In every second cell of the cell wall there are special openings with a diameter of 0.4 mm. The number of such holes is 90 pieces. They are needed in order to insert into them the existing plastic plugs with a concave end, after which the cell acquires the bottoms in the cells of the cell.

When all cells are filled with a cap, the box is closed with a polyethylene lid on the back side, and with a plastic grill on the opposite side, with which the complete formation of the lower part of the cells is achieved. This design allows you to completely repeat the natural shape of the honeycomb, and the dark color of the cells allows you to instantly determine which of them are located.

How to use the jenter cell

Once the artificial cell assembly process is complete, it is ready for installation in the hive. To do this, it is cut into the frame and fixed with special mounting kits.Approximately one day before the intended start of the process, the frame must be inserted into the hive. For this, the central zone is best suited. This is necessary in order for the worker bees to fully prepare the structure before the introduction of eggs with larvae.

After the preparatory period, the structure is removed from the bee colony and covered with a special grate with a valve. After that, the valve is taken out and the bee-female is put inside the Dzhentersky honeycomb, the valve is closed and the structure is placed back into the bee family. The design of the device allows you to delay the bee-mat inside, but to allow working bees to freely enter and exit the device. In this case, the isolated uterus begins to lay eggs in empty cells, but working insects do not leave it without food.

After laying eggs on an artificial cell, the valve is opened to allow free movement of insects, the protective cover is removed and the structure is placed back into the family.After a certain time, the structure is removed, and the young queens are prepared for transfer to a new family. To do this, carefully remove the plugs with the larvae, put a cup on it. In this case, the characteristic pans are obtained into which plastic fasteners are inserted on a pre-prepared graft frame. As a rule, on each frame is 20 queen cells, of which the output will ripen 20 high-quality pchelomatok.

The prepared vaccination frames must be inserted into the new bee family for upbringing. One bee colony can take 2 grafting frames, which means that insects can easily raise 40 bee-maids. Most beekeepers notice that the use of this technology contributes to the 100% adoption by the family of all the larvae. In addition, it allows you to get larger and more fertile queens than in any other way.

Peculiarities of beekeeping

Getting queen bees using artificial honeycombs has a number of cardinal features regarding simpler methods. In addition to the general rules, the instructions for using the Dzhenter cell are provided with a special scheme, which, like nothing else, will help to launch the process correctly and get a healthy fruit-bearing insect family. For this, manufacturers have created a schedule, following which you can achieve maximum success in this process. In addition, it allows you to properly plan your own time, with the result that this process can be put on stream.

The general process of obtaining queens lasts for 30 days, during this time it is possible to get a fairly good adult maturity. The preparatory period begins the day before the start of breeding. At this time, as mentioned above, the design is placed among the bees so that they clean it and prepare each cell for the larvae.At this time, insects clean the cells, close up unnecessary holes with wax, treat the structure with their own secret. After that, the uterus is placed in the prepared structure and left for not less than 3 hours for laying eggs. The best time for this process in our latitudes is suitable time interval from 15 to 20 hours.

The next day (from 9 to 11 o'clock) must be made egg laying control. For this, the honeycomb is carefully removed from the bees and intently examined. In case of failure, the previous step is repeated. If everything is in order, the fertilized cells are placed back into the family. After three days it is necessary to place the larvae in the cups, then framed and send it to the family-teacher. At this stage, it is necessary to closely monitor the process of feeding and the development of larvae, in order to avoid their rejection. In case of rejected larvae, they are replaced by reserve ones, after which they follow the process more carefully. After three days, it is necessary to prepare the cores and layers for uterus replanting, and also to prepare the bee family to replace the old uterus with a new one.For this, in a few hours of operation, a uterus is removed from a strong and young family. After some time, the insects' natural instinct will force them to activate their parental functions, after which the bees will gladly accept the larvae to be raised. If the larvae enter the hive with the uterus, it can completely destroy them, or the working insects simply do not pay attention to the larvae.

After 8 days, it is already possible to transplant the queen cells into the prepared nucleuses with bee colonies. After that insects leave to rest for 2 weeks. By the 30th day of the cultivation of bees, the honeycombs are checked for the presence of fertilized cells. In the case of their presence, we can say that the new bee-woman is ready to replenish the insect population. With proper observance of all the rules and time of the process, during the season you can get several populations of queens without much difficulty.

Making a honeycomb with your own hands

Having summed up to a common denominator, all the advantages and disadvantages of self-growing beekeepers, both experienced and novice beekeepers make their choice in the direction of withdrawal of queens exclusively with the help of the Dzhenter cell. However, despite the simplicity in the design of the device, not all domestic honey lovers can afford this device, since it is far from being the cheapest. That is why many domestic beekeepers decide to create a copy of this device at home. Consider in more detail the manufacture of Dzhentersky honeycomb with their own hands.

What is needed?

Since the design of an artificial honeycomb is simple, it can be made from virtually any available materials that everyone has at home. However, not all materials are suitable for producing reliable construction. Therefore, in the following we dwell in more detail on the most optimal options. So in order to make a Dzhentersky honeycomb with your own hands, you will need:

1. Flat and smooth solid-molded board, about 1-1.5 cm wide and not less than 20x20 cm wide (for this purpose, both plywood and plastic panels are suitable).
2. Electric drill and 2 drills for wood with a diameter of 8 and 5 mm.
3. Wax and wax strips for making honeycomb cells.
4. Manual or electric jigsaw (for cutting frame).
5. A pre-prepared drawing of Dzhenter’s cells (can be downloaded for free on the Internet).
6. Ruler and joiner pencil (you can use a simple stationery pencil).
7. Honey top dressing for a bait of bees.

Step by step production

After you have collected the above materials, You can begin to manufacture honeycombs. To do this, cut a correct square 15x15 cm in size using a jigsaw from a wooden or plastic board. After that, use a pencil and a ruler to apply a grid with squares of 1x1 cm to the board. Drill 8 mm holes in diameter and depth at the intersection of the grid square lines about 5 mm.

The previously prepared melted wax is poured into the drilled holes, after which a tape of wax should be attached to each row of strips. After performing this operation, holes are being drilled again in wax-filled holes, but this time with a 5 mm drill. The process can be considered complete when there are conic-shaped holes with a diameter of 3 mm in the wax strips. The resulting structure is sprinkled with honey dressing, and then placed in a frame. After a while, the bee-doe lays eggs in a honeycomb. After that, it is necessary to carefully separate the plates of wax from the plank and place them in the uterine frame. Such a device makes it possible to achieve good results in the breeding of queen bees, and also save not one extra penny. Despite the fact that the Djentersky honeycomb was made more than a decade ago, the device is the best way to get healthy fruit-bearing bees on an industrial scale. In addition, the design of this device makes it possible not only to get quality queens, but also to minimize the possible risks of their death or rejection by bees.That is why the breeding of bees by the method of artificial honeycombs is considered the most technologically correct way to achieve a high-quality and healthy population of bees.