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Yesterday we, once more time, checked the correspondence between the acoustic signals, which accompany brood care, using Brood Control mode of Apivox Smart Monitor, and real presence and quantity of open brood in the families of our experimental apiary...
Family E-1 ( this family lives in the hive of our new design, the goal of which to eliminate Varroa mites in the family)
Pay attention to this group of screenshots.. Here is clearly seen that in the middle of the day the bees were actively working (1.1, 1.2), the bees paid very few attention to the brood care. By evening, the work had weakened, and the volume of brood care had relatively increased (2.1, 2.2) and was almost equal in strength, to the rest of the hive works. The last chart, obtained late at night (3.0), shows that all in-hive works has weakened, and open brood care has become priority work in the family. But, accorfing to our chart, we can say, that there is not a lot of open brood in this family. The chart is close to zero line...
Family E-2
In the hive E-2, the situation is somewhat different. Open brood care signals are not visible at all ....
In screenshot 1.1 it can be seen that the bees are quite active in collecting honey. Screenshot 1.2 says, that there is very few works on open brood care. Other in-hive works prevail. And indeed it is. Inspection of the family showed the presence of approximately 3 frames with sealed brood, and almost complete absence of an open brood. That is why the signals of open brood care are so small, or completely absent during daytime.
Family 5-1
Screenshot 1.1 taken at the beginning of the evening suggests, that the family should have an open brood. When examining the family, at first, it seemed that there was no brood at all.... This is clearly visible in picture 2.1. But the graph spoke about completely different situation... This is why, we took a couple of shots quite close, and afterwards, on the computer, at high magnification, we saw that our device did not make a mistake !!!!! Open brood is really exist !!!! Pictures 2.2. and 2.3 clearly confirm this. Although there is not a lot of cells with open brood and the eggs and young larvae are not yet easily noticeable, but they are exists! Apivox Smart Monitor was right, as usual !!!
Family 5-2
Thease two charts were received at different time. One of them was received in the afternoon, when the bees worked actively, collecting honey, and the second - late in the evening. Diagram 1.1 shows, that there are times when work is maximized, and there are times when brood care appears in the family, but its strength is not enough to become the main work in the hive. Late in the evening, when the bees no longer fly for honey, the work on open brood care periodically become the main work in the hive. Diagram 1.2 shows this quite obviously. Everything speaks for the fact, that the family has an open brood but its emount is not very high...
Personal control of the hive showed, that there was a certain amount of sealed brood on 1 frame, and a rather large amount of open brood, on two more frames. There was found eggs and larvae... This perfectly confirms the readings of our device Apivox Smart Monitor.
Family 8-1
Despite the late evening hours, there are no any signs of open brood care. Thermometers are also recorded very low temperatures in the hive. Most likely there is no brood in the family. Personal inspection was not carried out.
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