Effective technology of mother of god's bee-direction, with high productivity of honeybee rearing
Vyacheslav Gluschenko Nikodim, Victor Fursov

Technology of intensive beekeeping, named “The Mother of God’s bee-direction” or “Virgin Mary’s beekeeping” was tested during 22 years of beekeeping experience. It is proposed for wide application. The Mother of God’s beekeeping system includes three united blocks of-storey beehives. Unique construction of beehive’s frame has Patent 2218757 “Construction for handling honeybees”. It was registrated in Russian Federation 20.12.2003. 

New bee-keeping technology consists in original construction of unique Mother of God’s frame. The size of frame is 290 mm x 215 mm that is half of Dadant’s frame size. This size is the most productive for bees brood growth. The Mother of God’s frame are united in three-frame blocks, or unites, through use of side brackets. Separate beehive body consists of 12 frames which are united in 4 blocks. 

Advantages of block of three Mother of God’s frames are: 1) opportunity to make beehive in any hive, log hive or box with free space, or even without box; 2) easy removal of blocks from hive or transferration inside hive; 3) easy inspection of beehive; 4) easy making new nucleuses or separation of colonies; 5) easy for work of ageing beekeepers.

from the Apimondia 2015 program

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