The response of bee colonies to the installation of frames with partially opened honey from the point of view of acoustic control.

Setting up food frames during the autumn fall season naturally activates the bees. But how does this happen and how does it affect the diagnostics of the Apivox Smart Monitor device. Now you can see it quite clearly.

In the figure you see two stages of diagnostics of two families that were in approximately the same situation - there was not enough food left.

Before installing frames with last year's honey, diagnostics were carried out in the General State Control mode. In both cases we see that in-hive works (1) of greater or lesser force takes place. In family No. 1, in which there are much fewer bees than in No. 2, there are visible two signals: a signal of emergency heating (4) and of active heating (5). The fact is that the hives do not have top insulation. Essentially the bees are on open air. The heat is not retained in any way. This is the reason for the heating signals.

After frames with honey were placed in the families, and some time passed, we see a sharp change in the picture. A powerful signal of work on honey collection appeared (2). That is, bees develop honey reserves, transport and process honey. In Readiness for Honey Harvest mode, we also see confirmation of their work - the graphs are white and are located mostly at the bottom of the screen (3), which indicates active work on collecting honey and moving it closer to the nest. Most of the active bees took up this work. Precisely the majority, since all our readings are relative and always speak not about all the works in the hive, but about the most active ones, the sounds of which rise above the general background of the hive.