Queen-limited oviposition device and beehive

Abstract

The utility model discloses a queen bee limiting and oviposition device and a beehive, and relates to the technical field of beekeeping tools, the queen bee limiting and oviposition device comprises a frame and an isolation assembly, and the frame is used for making honeycombs; the isolation assemblies are constructed to isolate the spawning areas on the two sides of the honeycomb into a plurality of independent sub-spawning areas, one sub-spawning area is used for containing one queen bee, and the isolation assemblies are only used for limiting the queen bees in the respective sub-spawning areas. The beehive comprises the queen bee limiting and spawning device, the spawning areas on the two sides of the honeycomb are divided into the independent sub-spawning areas, one sub-spawning area is only used for containing one queen bee, the spawning area of a single queen bee is reduced, the time for full spawning in one honeycomb is shortened, and then the honeycomb with the consistent day age is obtained.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The utility model relates to the technical field of beekeeping tools, in particular to a queen egg-laying device and a beehive. Background Art

[0002] Royal jelly is one of the important bee products with rich nutritional value. The production and sale of royal jelly is an important means for bee industry practitioners to obtain economic income. Professional royal jelly production requires organizing bee colonies with queen bees with strong egg-laying ability as egg-laying colonies, and mass-producing small larvae of appropriate age by limiting the time and area of ​​queen bee egg-laying. The small larvae of appropriate age are then transferred to the base in batches to achieve the purpose of mass production of royal jelly.

[0003] In actual production, a bee farm needs to organize multiple egg-laying groups to meet the demand for royal jelly production. However, it takes 2-3 days for a queen bee to lay a full egg on a comb. In this way, there will be larvae of different ages on a comb, which increases the difficulty of transferring larvae of the right age. In order to reduce labor intensity and improve production efficiency, some bee farms use multiple queen bees to lay eggs by forming a multi-king group, and raise the multi-king group as a sub-group for bee farm production to provide a suitable age worm comb. Under natural conditions, a bee colony usually has and only has one queen bee. If two queen bees meet in a bee colony, they will bite and kill each other until only one queen bee is left. Therefore, the formation of a multi-king group is mainly through the removal of the queen bee's upper jaw and the use of young worker bees, changing the biological factors and environmental factors that are easy to cause fighting between queen bees and the behavior of worker bees surrounding the king in the bee colony. The existing technology reduces labor intensity and improves production efficiency to a certain extent. However, in the actual production process, it is difficult to form a multi-king colony, the feeding and management technology requirements are high, and the multi-king state of the multi-king group is unstable, and the loss of the king often occurs in production. In addition, when using multiple queen colonies for egg-laying, the queen's status and egg-laying location cannot be controlled, and the presence of other empty nest cells may reduce egg-laying on the target comb. Utility Model Content

[0004] The utility model aims to provide a queen egg-laying device and a beehive, so as to solve the problems existing in the above-mentioned prior art, shorten the time of laying full eggs in a honeycomb, and thus obtain honeycombs with the same age.

[0005] To achieve the above purpose, the utility model provides the following solutions:

[0006] The utility model provides a device for limiting queen egg laying, comprising:

[0007] A nesting frame, on which a honeycomb is made; and

[0008] Isolation component, which is configured to isolate the spawning areas on both sides of the comb into multiple independent sub-spawning areas, and one of the sub-spawning areas is used to accommodate one queen bee. The isolation component is only used to confine the queen bee in their respective sub-spawning areas.

[0009] Preferably, the isolation component adopts a grille structure.

[0010] Preferably, the isolation component includes a grille, which includes an outer frame and a fence arranged inside the outer frame. The size of the outer frame is the same as that of the comb frame. The grille is arranged on the side of the comb frame, and the outer frame contacts the side of the comb frame. The area between the grille and the comb forms the sub-spawning area.

[0011] Preferably, the isolation component includes two grilles, and the two grilles are respectively arranged on the front and rear sides of the comb frame.

[0012] Preferably, the isolation component further includes a first isolation strip, which is arranged inside the fence and can divide the area between the fence and the comb into smaller multiple sub-spawning areas.

[0013] Preferably, the outer frame is provided with inlets and outlets communicating with the internal sub-spawning areas, and a movable door is arranged at the inlets and outlets.

[0014] Preferably, the comb frame and the two grilles on both sides are fixedly connected by buckles.

[0015] Preferably, a second isolation strip corresponding to the position of the first isolation strip is arranged inside the comb frame, and the first isolation strip contacts the second isolation strip.

[0016] The present invention also provides a beehive, which includes the queen bee confinement and spawning device as described above.

[0017] Preferably, it includes a box body, and a multi-queen spawning area, a maintenance area and an incubation area are arranged inside the box body. The queen bee confinement and spawning device is arranged in the multi-queen spawning area.

[0018] The present invention has achieved the following technical effects compared with the prior art:

[0019] By isolating the spawning areas on both sides of the comb into multiple independent sub-spawning areas, and only one queen bee is accommodated in one sub-spawning area, the present invention realizes shortening the time for a comb to be fully oviposited by reducing the spawning area of a single queen bee, and further obtains brood combs with consistent ages. Description of the Drawings

[0020] To more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention or the prior art, the following will briefly introduce the drawings required for use in the embodiments. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention. For those of ordinary skill in the art, without creative efforts, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings.

[0021] Figure 1 It is an exploded view of the structure of the queen-restricted spawning device provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

[0022] Figure 2 For Figure 1 It is a schematic structural diagram of the middle comb frame;

[0023] Figure 3 For Figure 1 It is a schematic structural diagram of the middle partition grid;

[0024] Figure 4 It is a schematic structural diagram of the queen-restricted spawning device provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

[0025] Figure 5 It is a schematic structural diagram of the beehive provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

[0026] Figure 6 It is a schematic diagram of the distribution structure of each component inside the beehive provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

[0027] In the figure: 1 - comb frame; 11 - second isolation strip; 2 - partition grid; 21 - movable door; 22 - outer frame; 23 - fence; 24 - first isolation strip; 31 - box body; 32 - hatching area; 33 - multi-queen spawning area; 34 - maintenance area; 301 - queen-restricted spawning device; 302 - side guard spleen; 303 - partition board; 304 - ordinary comb spleen; 305 - queen excluder; 306 - egg spleen to be hatched. Detailed implementation manners

[0028] The following will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, rather than all embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts belong to the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0029] To make the above objects, features, and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable, the present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the drawings and specific implementation manners.

[0030] Such as Figures 1 to 6As shown in the figure. The present utility model provides a queen oviposition limiting device 301, comprising: a honeycomb frame 1 and an isolation component.

[0031] The honeycomb frame 1 is used for building honeycomb spleen, that is, the honeycomb frame 1 provides a building position for the honeycomb spleen. When necessary, a honeycomb foundation can be set on the honeycomb frame 1 first, and then the bee colony builds the honeycomb spleen on both sides or one side of the honeycomb foundation. For the convenience of description, the space on both sides or any one side of the honeycomb spleen, that is, the area adjacent to the side of the honeycomb spleen, is defined as the oviposition area. It can be understood that the queen lays eggs into the honeycomb spleen in the oviposition area.

[0032] In the prior art, the oviposition area is usually an integral space, and there is no barrier to isolate the queen bees. This requires forming a multi-queen colony to lay eggs on the same honeycomb spleen at the same time. To solve this problem, on the basis of the prior art, the present utility model further provides an isolation component, which is configured to isolate the oviposition areas on both sides of the honeycomb spleen into multiple independent sub-oviposition areas. One sub-oviposition area is used to accommodate one queen bee, and the isolation component is only used to limit the queen bees in their respective sub-oviposition areas.

[0033] Therefore, in the embodiment of the present utility model, by isolating the oviposition areas on both sides of the honeycomb spleen into multiple independent sub-oviposition areas, and only one queen bee is accommodated in one sub-oviposition area, the time for filling the eggs in a honeycomb spleen is shortened by reducing the oviposition area of a single queen bee, and thus a brood spleen with consistent age is obtained.

[0034] In some embodiments, the isolation component is not limited to the grid structure. For example, a mesh cover with holes can be used, as long as it can meet the requirement that worker bees can enter and exit normally and the queen bees are restricted from entering and exiting.

[0035] When the isolation component adopts the grid structure, the isolation component includes an outer frame 22 and a fence 23 arranged inside the outer frame 22. The size of the outer frame 22 is the same as that of the honeycomb frame 1. The grid 2 is arranged on the side of the honeycomb frame 1, and the outer frame 22 contacts the side of the honeycomb frame 1. A sub-oviposition area is formed between the grid 2 and the honeycomb spleen.

[0036] In this embodiment, the grid 2 is used to isolate the space on both sides of the honeycomb spleen to limit the queen bees to lay eggs in their respective independent areas, thereby preventing the queen bees from fighting with each other.

[0037] In some embodiments, the isolation component includes two grids 2, and the two grids 2 are respectively arranged on the front and rear sides of the honeycomb frame 1.

[0038] Understandably, in the above embodiments, the spawning area is only divided into two sub-spawning areas. Although this can improve the spawning efficiency, when the area of the comb is large, the entire comb cannot be filled with eggs within 24 hours. Based on this, in some embodiments, the isolation component further includes a first isolation strip 24. The first isolation strip 24 is disposed inside the fence 23 and can divide the area between the fence 23 and the comb into multiple smaller sub-spawning areas.

[0039] This embodiment realizes dividing the spawning areas on both sides of the comb into more and smaller sub-spawning areas, which can further reduce the activity space of a single queen bee, and thus obtain a full comb of brood in a shorter time.

[0040] In order to facilitate the insertion and removal of the queen bee, in some embodiments, the outer frame 22 is provided with an inlet / outlet communicating with each internal sub-spawning area, and a movable door 21 is provided at the inlet / outlet.

[0041] Specifically, the movable door 21 is hinged at the inlet / outlet, and the purpose of closing and opening the inlet / outlet is achieved by rotating the movable door 21. The setting method of the movable door 21 can be any one in the prior art, and the present invention will not elaborate on this.

[0042] In some embodiments, the comb frame 1 and the two fences 2 on both sides are fixedly connected by buckles.

[0043] This embodiment uses buckles to fix the comb frame 1 and the grille, so as to facilitate the assembly and disassembly of the fence 2 and the comb frame 1. Of course, on the premise of not considering disassembly, bolts, gluing, mortise and tenon, etc. can be used to fix the fence 2 and the comb frame 1.

[0044] In some embodiments, the comb frame 1 and the two fences 2 on both sides are made of wood.

[0045] Considering that there are contingencies when the bee colony builds the comb, such as unevenness, in this case, it is easy to cause the first isolation strip 24 not to be in close contact with the comb everywhere. When the gap between the first isolation strip 24 and the comb exceeds the size of the queen bee, the queens in the two sub-spawning areas will scurry around, which will lead to fighting. Based on this, in some embodiments, a second isolation strip 11 corresponding to the position of the first isolation strip 24 is provided in the comb frame 1, and the first isolation strip 24 and the second isolation strip 11 are in contact.

[0046] This embodiment realizes the separation of the two sub-spawning areas through the contact between the first isolation strip 24 and the second isolation strip 11, thereby avoiding the above problems.

[0047] Understandably, one or more first isolation strips 24 can be provided as required. When one first isolation strip 24 is provided on both sides of the comb, 4 sub-spawning areas will be formed.

[0048] In some embodiments, both the first partition strip 24 and the second partition strip 11 are wooden strips. The first partition strip 24 is fixedly arranged with the outer frame 22, and the second partition strip 11 is fixedly arranged with the honeycomb frame 1.

[0049] To further illustrate the advantages of the present utility model, the following description is made: In the traditional method, it takes 2 - 3 days for a single queen bee to lay eggs on a single honeycomb spleen. To improve the egg - laying efficiency of the queen bee, the present utility model uses the partition grid 2 to evenly isolate the whole honeycomb spleen into 4 regions, and 4 queen bees can be used to lay eggs simultaneously, greatly shortening the production time of the egg spleen and obtaining brood combs with consistent day - ages; Using a multi - queen colony can achieve this technical effect, but the formation of a multi - queen colony is difficult, the requirements for feeding and management techniques are relatively high, and the multi - queen state of the multi - queen colony is unstable, and the situation of losing the queen often occurs during production, resulting in the failure of brood comb production. When using a single - queen colony or a two - queen colony to lay eggs, under the same scale, it is necessary to continuously operate multiple bee colonies to complete the egg - laying work, and the day - ages of the brood combs differ by more than 24 hours. By using the present utility model, the workload can be reduced by 2 times or 4 times, greatly improving the work efficiency and reducing the labor intensity.

[0050] An embodiment of the present utility model also provides a beehive, including the queen - limiting egg - laying device 301 as described above.

[0051] Specifically, the beehive includes a box body 31. A multi - queen egg - laying area 33, a maintenance area 34, and an incubation area 32 are arranged inside the box body 31. The queen - limiting egg - laying device 301 is arranged in the multi - queen egg - laying area 33. The egg - laying area is separated from the maintenance area 34 by a partition board 303, and the incubation area 32 is separated from the egg - laying area and the maintenance area 34 by a queen - excluder 305. The egg - laying area uses the queen - limiting egg - laying device 301 provided by the present utility model to lay eggs. The maintenance area 34 retains suitable - age queen bees to maintain the stable state of the bee colony and ensure the hatching of the eggs in the incubation area 32.

[0052] Based on the above device, the present utility model proposes a systematic method for efficient royal jelly production. The system consists of a queen bee group, an egg - laying group, a production group, and a guarantee group. The queen bee group consists of a two - queen colony with strong egg - laying ability, providing egg - laying queen bees for the whole system; The egg - laying group is formed based on the queen - limiting egg - laying device 301, with an egg - laying area and an incubation area 32 arranged in a beehive; The production group transfers the area of suitable - age larvae in the egg - laying colony to the queen - cell bar and puts it into the production group, and the worker bees of the bee colony carry out the production of spitting out royal jelly; The guarantee group consists of bee colonies with strong colony strength and strong queen - bee egg - laying ability, which are used to replace and supplement the losses caused by various accidental factors in the whole system at any time. This system does not need to form a multi - queen colony, can replace the queen bee with stronger egg - laying ability at any time, and can stably and efficiently produce royal jelly.

[0053] Specifically, the system consists of a queen bee group, an egg - laying group, a production group, and a guarantee group.

[0054] The queen bee group can be composed of several colonies with strong egg-laying queens as needed, and the queens that provide strong egg-laying queens for the entire system can be merged and transferred into the guarantee group;

[0055] There are n egg-laying groups in total to ensure that n egg combs can be produced in the same batch, maximizing production efficiency. Based on the device, an egg-laying area, a maintenance area 34, and an incubation area 32 are set in a beehive, and a queen bee is retained in the maintenance area 34 to ensure that the bee colony state in the maintenance area 34 and the incubation area 32 is stable;

[0056] The production group organizes 10n-15n production bee colonies according to actual needs to ensure that all the larvae of the same batch can be moved into the base strips, and the larvae of the right age in the egg-laying group are transferred to the base strips and placed in the production group, and the bee worker bees produce larvae by spitting out the larvae;

[0057] The guarantee group is composed of bee colonies with strong colony strength and queen bees with strong egg-laying ability, and is used to replace and supplement the losses of the entire system caused by various factors at any time.

[0058] The system described above is a production system with a cycle of 7 days, which can be continuously operated. The specific operations are as follows:

[0059] On the 1st day, a total of 4 suitable queens and honeycombs a of the queen bee group were transferred between two partitions 2 to form a queen-limited egg-laying device 301, and the original double-queen group was merged into a single-queen group and transferred to the guarantee group. The queen-limited egg-laying device 301 was placed in the egg-laying area to lay eggs for 24 hours;

[0060] On the 2nd day, the comb a that had been laying eggs for 24 hours was taken out and transferred to the hatching area 32, and the four queen bees and the comb b were transferred into the device and returned to the egg-laying area to lay eggs;

[0061] On the 3rd day, the honeycomb b which had been laying eggs for 24 hours in the limited queen egg-laying device 301 was taken out and placed in the hatching area 32. The 4 queens and honeycombs c were transferred into the device and put back into the egg-laying area to lay eggs.

[0062] On the 4th day, the honeycomb c that had been laying eggs for 24 hours in the queen-limited egg-laying device 301 was taken out and placed in the hatching area 32. Four queens and honeycombs d were transferred into the device and put back into the egg-laying area to lay eggs.

[0063] On the 5th, the honeycomb d that had been laying eggs for 24 hours in the queen-limited egg-laying device 301 was taken out and placed in the hatching area 32. Four queen bees and honeycomb e were transferred into the device and put back into the egg-laying area to lay eggs. The honeycomb a in the hatching area 32 was taken out, and the larvae of appropriate age were transferred to the base bar, and the base bar was placed in the production group a; the honeycomb a was frozen for 12 hours and then set aside for use.

[0064] On the 6th, the honeycomb e that had completed egg-laying for 24 hours in the egg-laying area was taken out and placed in the hatching area 32. The four queen bees and the honeycomb a were transferred to the next device and put back into the egg-laying area to lay eggs. The honeycomb b in the hatching area 32 was taken out, and the larvae of appropriate age were transferred to the base bar and placed in the production group b. The honeycomb b was frozen for 12 hours and then set aside for use.

[0065] On the 7th, the comb a that had been laying eggs for 24 hours in the queen-limited egg-laying device 301 was taken out and placed in the hatching area 32. The four queens and comb b were transferred to the next device and put back into the egg-laying area to lay eggs. The comb c in the hatching area 32 was taken out, and the larvae of the appropriate age were transferred to the base bar and placed in the production group c. The comb c was frozen for 12 hours and then put into use.

[0066] On the 8th, the honeycomb b that has finished laying eggs for 24 hours in the egg-laying area is taken out and placed in the hatching area 32. The four queen bees and honeycomb c are transferred to the next device and put back into the egg-laying area to lay eggs. The honeycomb d in the hatching area 32 is taken out, and the larvae of the right age are transferred to the base bar and placed in the production group d. The honeycomb d is frozen for 12 hours and then used. The base bar in the production group a is taken out to complete a cycle of royal jelly production and continue the cycle production.

[0067] During the production period, the support group is used to ensure the entire production process and replace the queen bee or bee colony as needed.

[0068] The present invention uses specific examples to illustrate the principle and implementation of the present invention. The above examples are only used to help understand the method and core idea of ​​the present invention. At the same time, for those skilled in the art, according to the idea of ​​the present invention, there will be changes in the specific implementation and application scope. In summary, the content of this specification should not be understood as limiting the present invention.

Claims

1. A device for limiting queen spawning, characterized in that: include: A nest frame, wherein the nest frame is used to make a honeycomb; as well as An isolation component is constructed to isolate the egg-laying areas on both sides of the honeycomb into a plurality of independent sub-egg-laying areas, one of the sub-egg-laying areas is used to accommodate a queen bee, and the isolation component is only used to confine the queen bee in the respective sub-egg-laying areas.

2. The device for limiting the laying of eggs by queens according to claim 1, characterized in that: The isolation component adopts a grid structure.

3. The device for limiting the laying of eggs by queens according to claim 1, characterized in that: The isolation assembly includes a grille, which includes an outer frame and a fence arranged inside the outer frame. The size of the outer frame is consistent with the size of the nest frame. The grille is arranged on the side of the nest frame. The outer frame is in contact with the side of the nest frame. The spawning area is formed between the grille and the honeycomb.

4. The device for limiting the laying of eggs by queens according to claim 3, characterized in that: The isolation assembly comprises two isolation grilles, which are respectively arranged on the front and rear sides of the nest frame.

5. The device for limiting the laying of eggs by queens according to claim 4, characterized in that: The isolation assembly further includes a first isolation bar, which is disposed on the inner side of the fence and is capable of dividing the area between the fence and the honeycomb into a plurality of smaller sub-spawning areas.

6. The device for limiting the laying of eggs by queens according to claim 5, characterized in that: The outer frame is provided with an inlet and an outlet communicating with each of the inner spawning areas, and a movable door is provided at the inlet and outlet.

7. The device for limiting the laying of queen eggs according to claim 3, characterized in that: The nest frame and the two grilles on both sides are fixedly connected by buckles.

8. The device for limiting the laying of queen eggs according to claim 5, characterized in that: A second isolation bar corresponding to the position of the first isolation bar is arranged in the nest frame, and the first isolation bar is in contact with the second isolation bar.

9. A beehive, characterized in that: The invention comprises the queen spawning limiting device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8.

10. The beehive according to claim 9, characterized in that: It comprises a box body, in which a multiple queen spawning area, a maintenance area and a hatching area are arranged, and the queen spawning limiting device is arranged in the multiple queen spawning area.

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