bee weather station

With the help of the weather station, various correlations between the weather and the development and health of our bees can be recognised and analysed. Every beekeeper has already been able to observe these correlations.

For example, the outside temperature has a direct effect on the brood activity in the bee colony, especially in spring. If it is very warm, a bee colony can care for more brood and the development goes much faster.

However, the weather and climate also have an effect on the vegetation and thus on the food supply of our bees. In the case of forest honey harvesting, the relationships become even more complex. The honeydew is produced by lachnids and leccanids, whose reproduction in turn depends on the food supply. These feed on the sap of the trees. These in turn need water and thus sufficient precipitation and soil moisture.

Particularly strong bee colonies can collapse in a very short time in late summer due to the varroa mite. A strong bee colony can start breeding much earlier in the spring. However, this also allows the varroa mite more development cycles and thus faster reproduction. The brood chamber temperature could be used to investigate this relationship much more closely.

Many questions and observations can be better answered with the help of a weather station. An inexpensive weather station that can be assembled and operated by anyone should support the beekeeper in his work and lead to new insights.

 

With the help of the weather station, various correlations between the weather and the development and health of our bees can be recognised and analysed. Every beekeeper has already been able to... read more »
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bee weather station

With the help of the weather station, various correlations between the weather and the development and health of our bees can be recognised and analysed. Every beekeeper has already been able to observe these correlations.

For example, the outside temperature has a direct effect on the brood activity in the bee colony, especially in spring. If it is very warm, a bee colony can care for more brood and the development goes much faster.

However, the weather and climate also have an effect on the vegetation and thus on the food supply of our bees. In the case of forest honey harvesting, the relationships become even more complex. The honeydew is produced by lachnids and leccanids, whose reproduction in turn depends on the food supply. These feed on the sap of the trees. These in turn need water and thus sufficient precipitation and soil moisture.

Particularly strong bee colonies can collapse in a very short time in late summer due to the varroa mite. A strong bee colony can start breeding much earlier in the spring. However, this also allows the varroa mite more development cycles and thus faster reproduction. The brood chamber temperature could be used to investigate this relationship much more closely.

Many questions and observations can be better answered with the help of a weather station. An inexpensive weather station that can be assembled and operated by anyone should support the beekeeper in his work and lead to new insights.

 

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