The instinct of swarming is manifested in the coincidence of certain both external and internal factors, therefore, to prevent it, it is necessary to carry out a whole range of measures, taking into account local conditions, as well as which breed of bees lives in the hives that belong to you. It is important to understand that it is much easier to prevent the manifestations of this instinct in bee families than to belatedly deal with its consequences.
Here are some special tricks to help suppress the swarm of bees:
1) It is necessary to timely select from families surplus representatives who are not busy with work, or mature brood.
2) A large number of bees can be occupied by raising a brood, but for this a young uterine uterus must live in the family.
3) Insects should be loaded to the maximum with the collection of nectar and the construction of new cells.
4) It is also necessary to promptly expand the nests, shade the hives and increase their ventilation.
5) Highly productive, sloppy families need to be selected and propagated.
6) Breeding such breeds of bees that are less prone to swarming.
The selection of bees and brood must be done before swarm bowls appear. And if swarm mother liquors are incorporated in the family, then this technique will not prevent the swarming of bees. It is especially important to conduct selection in those areas where the period of growing families is longer (with sunflower, linden-buckwheat and buckwheat types of honey collection), and this applies primarily to areas where there is no productive collection before flowering of the main honey plants, in such cases a honey bee forced to accumulate herds by the onset of the main honey collection.
In addition to selecting excess bees, swarming can be prevented by loading the “population” of the hive more densely by raising brood and building honeycombs. The more fertile the uterus, the more larvae, and the more young bees will be distracted by caring for them.
In families with annual prolific uterus, swarming of bees occurs much less frequently than in those with older uterus. Therefore, their timely replacement is a good anti-sway technique that significantly increases the productivity of apiaries.
Also, swarming of bees can be prevented by loading them with work on the construction, collection and further processing of nectar, for this, if there is no honey collection, transport the apiary to the places where it is (on raspberries, meadow herbs, coriander, sainfoin, pink and white clover, etc. like that).
In order to maximize the potential of young bees in the construction of new honeycombs, with the onset of warm weather, as well as at least a minimum supporting honey collection, it is necessary to put frames with waxes in the nests of families. For sufficiently strong families, it is necessary to install it between honeycombs containing brood, in the middle of the nests. It is also possible to transfer open brood from nests of weaker "neighbors" for cultivation to growing families. Although it is worth considering that this procedure is rather laborious and can contribute to the spread of diseases.
When carrying out all these actions, the size of the nests should be increased. In cases where the expansion of nests is carried out in a timely manner, this not only promotes the development of families, but also prevents the swarming of bees. And even if with the help of this technique it was still not possible to prevent an undesirable process, its terms are significantly delayed and relatively few individuals participate in it.
In ordinary hives, designed for 12 frames, swarming prevents the timely installation of semi-extensions. They need to be installed without waiting for the overflow of the socket. If weather conditions permit, then this work is carried out as soon as the bees cover 10-11 frames. Shading hives, enhancing ventilation - these techniques are performed when the outside air warms up above 35 degrees and insects, unable to maintain a suitable temperature inside the nest, fly out of the hive, provoking a swarming instinct.