The Warre hive is another who is enjoying a strong popularity and demand for naturalist beekeeping enthusiasts, a bit throughout Europe and North America.
The Warre hive is so named in honor of its inventor, French priest Émile Warre (1867-1951), who developed it based on their experiences in a decade with 350 beehives of various types and in their observations of the natural behavior of bees.
Its aim was to produce a simple beehive, cheap and friend of bees, ensuring, at the same time, a good honey crop for the beekeeper.
The result of their work was the "People's Hive" (Peoples hive, now known as Warre hive), whose construction and operation described in his book "L’ Beekeeping For All ", one of several volumes on beekeeping wrote.
Description
operation
Based on the natural behavior of bees, wherein the queen tends to put the posture at the bottom of the nest, while the honey reserves are stored immediately above, the method of use of a honeycomb WARRE implies that each new element is placed underneath the elements already installed.
The swarm spends the winter in a nest made of two elements.
Unfolding swarms
There are several methods for deploying a swarm in a Warre hive. The easiest it based on the fact that the position hold the two lower elements. That way, just separate the two elements occupied by the posture, one of which comes with queen and the other orfanizado. The latter, the availability of bees, It can be immediately used in honey production, by adding another element- this case, over.
honeycombs fixed or mobile frames
fixed honeycombs
The original Warre hive is equipped with fixed slats (also known as top bars), wherein the honeycomb is fully constructed by the bees. these hives, to peak (and here the word applies with regard) It is made as a traditional tenement, with the difference that, on here, a stance, housed in the two bottom elements, out unscathed.
In fixed comb hives, can give the event that the honeycombs of the upper element, we want to remove, They are welded to the bottom element. In this case, We spent a thin wire (It can be a wire usually used in furniture frames) between elements os, careful not cut bees, separating the two elements.
moving pictures
There are several types of moving pictures, from frames that have only the side guards, preventing bees from sticking to the walls honeycombs, up tables similar to a conventional hive. There is, up until, who staff its Warre frames with molded wax, but, in a generic way, the philosophy of Warre hive is to let the bees produce their own wax.
The Timberbee Warre hive is equipped with tables with complete walls.
As in the Top Bar hive, in frames or top bars where the bees will build the honeycomb, should lie melted wax into the slot at the bottom, or slash it with a wax block that approached a heat source. From this line wax, the bees will pull your favo.
Advantages
There are several advantages of Warre hive, in relation to the hive Lusitana.
One is the lower weight of each of the elements, smaller and thinner walls. The other is its suitability for a naturalistic beekeeping, in which bees produce their own wax: for this reason, the Warre hive is widely used in organic or biodynamic beekeeping.
The biggest advantage is, However, for the health of the hive. In addition to the greater hardiness of the swarm, the more natural behaviors are allowed, the Warre hive provides a healthier environment to swarm, contributes to reduce the occurrence of diseases and parasites. See "Cash Agasalho”.
The hardiness of the swarm, the constant renewal of beeswax, and the best aeration of the hive, sanity within a hive is WARRE, general rule, better than conventional beehives.
Blanket Box
The sweater box consists of a wooden box with background on burlap, which is filled with sawdust, straw, or other material having good thermal insulation properties.
The Agasalho box that team Warre hive mimics the top of the cavity of a tree where a swarm settled, in the decaying wood allows the moisture escape the swarm nest, preventing condensation inside, in the form of water droplets.
The Benefits, compared to conventional tracksuit clipboard are immense.
In addition to providing thermal insulation to the cluster during the winter, the sweater box absorbs moisture hive, reducing condensation.
Due to the thermal insulation layer, the air passage makes very slowly, allowing the pheromone released by Queen gets better whole beehive, and stay longer inside, contributing to greater peace Swarm.
Another benefit is that, and during the summer we do not have to open the lid on the coat clipboard, air circulation makes up more slowly, so that honey aroma, which attracts honey bees thieves or predators, as sawflies, spreads more slowly, helping to attract less of these unwanted animals.
As we have an airier hive, we will have a swarm less susceptible to diseases such as ascoferiose (commonly known as create-of-chalk.
litter
Below the coat Warre box, It is placed one second burlap cloth, which prevents the burlap background blanket box is propolisado or damaged by bees.
To prevent this cloth is damaged by bees, this should be brushed with a gum made with water, flour and starch.
To this mixture, boil 125 g of flour and 10 g of corn starch and a half liters of water, stirring to form a gum. When the mixture cool, apply in burlap cloth with a brush or brush. when dry, burlap cloth will be very hard, can, So, be cut to size the inner area of the hive.
This mixture should allow you to prepare 18 burlap cloths.
A peak
At the time of peak, we should remove all but the two bottom of the hive, where the establishment is located.
A peak, Warre hive in a fixed frame, It is made the same way as in a slum, extracting honey from honeycombs with the aid of a press.
The largest amount of pollen (bread Bees) this, get, However, a richer honey, it should be sold with added value.
Shooting of "L’ Beekeeping For All ", do padre Émile Warré:
"The Hives People does not make honey stones, or it will give honey effortlessly, but it lets you save a lot of time and several kilograms of honey each winter. In a word, the Hives People's practice. Using the Beehive Popular, It provides the most enjoyable home and logic to his beloved bees, generating happiness for you and for them ".
includes:
• 3 elements (boxes) with 8 Fixed top bar *;
• Health Platform (wire mesh);
• wrap box;
• burlap cloth;
• Flight Board;
• metal Tampa **
* Alternatively, and for just € 4 customer can choose furniture frames.
**Alternatively, and for just € 15, the customer can choose the typical Warre coverage at home so, wooden.