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The Technology of Management Honey Bee Colonies ''Remember''

The process of management the bee colonies, really is the decision of a problem of optimization. Efficiency of the decision of such problem is estimated by the criterion of efficiency. These criteria are determined by a beekeeper. Most essential from all criteria are:

1. high efficiency of bees at pollination of entomological plants;
2. quantity of commodity honey, pollen, royal jelly and other direct products of beekeeping;
3. the viability is very important, especially for those regions, where duration of winter rest period is more than 150 days.

Any bee-keeper always collects and keeps definite information on management of colonies. He decides the great number of simple local problems, including the known very complicated problems of global character. The last tasks are such complex, that even modern calculable machines can not decide them successfully. And how does a beekeeper decide these tasks? Actually he decides them intuitively.

The “Remember” technology enables to the beekeeper to handle the colonies objectively, in place of intuitional management.

Intuitional management of colonies likes the management by a ship in an ocean without a compass and in a foggy weather.

To the present tense, all existent technologies of management colonies, actually, are technologies of intuitional management. A beekeeper not enough effective uses his knowledge because he has not the instrument of processing the information.

For a bee-keeper is such instrument, created by me, the mathematical model of a honey bee colony. One of its basic dignities is that really the model is presented as a table. Sure, such table can be read by beekeepers only. The reading of the table is impossible without knowledge of bee biology and environment of a colony.

Dear colleagues, working with the help of the “Remember” technology you always know the hive mind (inner state) of each colony. Actually, you will know their viability, capacity of work and exact date of birth (beginning) of the swarming state (intersystem discordance), which you will successfully handle.

The characteristic features of the "Remember” technology

1. The technology is elaborated by my math model of honey bee colony. This model is reliable for all European races of bees, also for others, which have a similar period of development and lifetime of workers.
2. Working with the help of the technology, swarming of colonies is fully liquidated.
3. Its using at the management of the colonies becomes quite visible, like TV screen.
4. Collection and processing of necessary information are enough simple.
5. One beekeeper is able to process information for 200 colonies without special devices. Of cause, the calculating devices make possible to put into procession more than 1500 colonies.
6. Working with the help of the “Remember” technology, a beekeeper needs no more than 4 hours, to execute all works into a hive with one colony from the main spring inspection to the period of the preparation to a winter rest.
7. At preparation of bees to the wintering, a beekeeper exactly knows viability of each colony. Such information is essential for those climatic zones, where the period of winter rest lasts 150 and more days. There the using of the “Remember” technology has not itself equal. In those climatic areas, during the wintering, the middle death-rate of 20% colonies is considered a norm. Using the “Remember” technology, in a theory, the death-rate of the colonies does not take place. Undoubtedly, the race of bees must correspond to the given climatic zones and bees must be are healthy. It’s possible defeat from external mites no more than 0.1% bees, of prepared to wintering.
8. In 75 days, after the spring cleansing flying, the basic part of colonies, substantially, lowers the flying activity. And using the “Remember” technology the general activity of apiary increases no less than in 20% and to 100 days the activity doubles in comparison with technologies of intuitional management of colonies.
9. Productivity of apiary during all season is always substantially higher, in comparison with technologies of intuitional management. And at the very difficult terms of environment this advantage can be more than in 2.5 times.
10. Using the bees for pollination of entomological plants, the technology, naturally, has a highly essential superiority on collection of nectar and pollen. For all season, each colony collects floral pollen no less then in 2 times more in comparison with any other technologies. This information is the special interest for specialists, who grow the entomological plants. It is known, that the oppressed plants secrete not enough nectar, but pollen is. The bees collect pollen, substantially rising the crop capacity of plants in difficult situations.For example, buckwheat is one of very capricious plants on the secretion of nectar. Once, 60 hectares of these plants were pollinated by 140 colonies, which were handled with the help of the “Remember” technology. Simultaneously, round and round this area under crop, in radius of 30 kilometers were pollinated more than 40 areas under crop of buckwheat and each square was from 30 to 100 hectares. All these areas were pollinated by colonies guided on intuitional technologies. (3 colonies on each hectare).
    Natural-climatic conditions, for all above enumerated areas, were the same extremely unfavorable for the secrete of nectar by a buckwheat in that year. All areas were sown by the identical sort of buckwheat.
    Surely, the productivity was very low, in the above mentioned areas under crop. On each of all 40 areas under crop of buckwheat, where pollination was produced by the bees guided by intuitional technologies the average yield of buckwheat was collected from 0.9 to 1.1 tons from a hectare.
    At the same time, on the areas in 60 hectares the average yield of buckwheat was got 2.1 tons from a hectare. Yes, this buckwheat was pollinated by bees guided the “Remember” technology. The productivity, practically, was got in 2 times anymore. In this case, the intensive pollination is fulfilled due to the active collection of pollen.
    At production of elite seeds of entomological crops, we always shall get the high quality of ones.
    From other side, the given technology attracts the plant growers because they can see the state of any colony very easy, with the help of accessible information. Simultaneously, the quantity of colonies, necessary for the qualitative pollination, diminishes in 25% in comparison with any intuitive technology.
11. Wonder? No, there is the result of the normal use of the beekeeper’s knowledge and the help to the bees in good time. Really, working with the help of the “Remember” technology we have decided the problem of optimization, there is the best variant of management the honey bee colonies from all possible.

Thank you for coming to my site. If you have any questions about this website you can contact me directly at anatpyl@mail.ru

With kind regards,

Anatoliy Pylypenko
Beekeeper and engineer

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