CONTROL OF ACCEPTANCE OF NEW QUEEN


​ This is a specialized examination of bee colony, used when replacing the queen after the old queen has been deleted. The best time for placing new queen into the hive was chosen by the "Readiness to accept" mode , and the queen was placed into the hive in a cage or in the special box.

WINDOW 1


On the screen you can see two indicators

- Left indicator shows trend of correlation between the normal condition of the family ( passive or working state) and the feeling of queenless. Green zone - queenless is not felt by the family. Red zone - the family feels queenless.

- Right indicator shows trend of correlation between the normal condition of the family ( passive or working state) and the negative excitation of bees, meaning that the new queen is not accepted yet.

- The value on the scale says about the power of trends.

- Green zone indicates that the negative excitation in the family and the feeling of queenless goes down and the family returns to its normal state.

- Red zone tells about the continuing of negative trends and about non-acceptance of the new queen.


WINDOW 2


On the screen you can see 3 indicators

Central indicator shows the trend of correlation between acceptance and non-acceptance of new queen, comparing the signals in the ranges, indicating the reception of the queen and the negative excitation and rejection of new queen . Indicator tells us about the strength of this trend. Color zones - green on the prevalence of the reception of the queen, red - the prevalence of the rejection of the new queen.

- Left indicator shows signal strength, meaning the reception of the queen relative to the overall background of the hive. When the value on indicator is bigger, then higher the probability of acceptance of new queen by the family.

- Right indicator shows the strength of the signal of negative excitation or the rejection of a new queen relatively to the overall background of the hive. When the value of this signal become bigger, then becomes less probability of acceptance of a new queen in the near future.

- After the queen is accepted, all signals in the hive subside. Usually this happens more or less quickly. The indicators which shows the power of the signals go to the left to minimum values, and trend indicators are in the center of the scales near the zero values.

- When we have the trend to rejection of the new queen, the signals remain strong enough for a long time. They do not fade away, but only pulsating.

WINDOW 3

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- On the screen you can see the graph, which use as data monitored on the time axis, the value of ratio between aceeption and non-acceptance of new queen, comparing the signals in the range that indicates a reception of the queen with signals in the range of negative excitement and non-acceptance of new queen.

- The graph window has dimencions for 1.5 hours of continuous monitoring. After filling out the window, it is shifts.

- Values below zero ( red) indicate that the family do not accept new queen. - - Values ​​above zero (white) shows that the bee family is going to accept new queen.

​- The amplitude values on the chart tells about the power of trends.

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- The application of both phases of this mode significantly improves acceptance of the queen, but does not guarantee it. Therefore, we recommend:

1) Do not change queen during the time of modulatory signals.

2) If you place the queen in the family in a cage, when you see positive trend to acceptance, it is recommended to leave the queen in a cage until at least next morning or mid-day.

3) It is not recommended to liberate the queen from the cage in the late evening . In the dark bees are very aggressive. And attacking you, they become excited and can kill the queen.


First of all, when you start to work with the hive, adjust the microphone gain in order to see all the peaks and highs from blue to red. With microphone gain, (use the rotary control with the toggle "MIC", switched to ON ) you can choose the most suitable signal amplification to draw a clear picture of the signals. This is needed for further work using all modes of the device. Normally, it is needed to choose the desired gain, for each bee family. But practically, you don't needed to change it, if you see good signals of the bees in this beehive. This adjustments are made in Monitoring mode, which is the "default" mode, when you are starting your work with device, and between measurements, if any other mode is not selected.​


- During long-term processes of mesurements such as Readiness Control or Acceptance Control it is possible the lock of screen of a smartphone in accordance with its internal settings. If that happenes, you need to unlock your smartphone as usually . You can, also, cancel the lock in the settings of your smartphone.