How to improve bumblebee breeding, pitfalls of repeated breeding
What you will learn here
- New technical solutions and ideas
- Gadgets
- Ideas and solutions from the Bumblebees PLUS workshop
- Ideas and solutions from other breeders
Last updated: 28/11/2020
Introduction
This section is intended for beekeepers who already have some experience and possibly for DIYers who want to modify their hives.
The section is also intended for manufacturers who are interested in cooperating with Čmeláci PLUS and using some ideas and gadgets in production. We have set rules .
Why? Commercial products are ideal for a start and will allow a novice breeder to get through the beginnings without losing a flower. However, the things published here would be unnecessarily complicated for him at the beginning. It is better to focus on the basics at the beginning, get to know the behavior of the colony and only then start looking for improvements and modifications tailored to the breeder's conditions. Without this foundation, otherwise possible improvements could turn out exactly the opposite and the novice breeder could discover the mistake too late.
However, anyone who has been involved in beekeeping for a long time knows that even the best hives are far from perfect. There is always room for improvement and new solutions to be found.
That's why this section is here - we would like to provide a space for you experienced breeders who have some of your own tricks, whether technical or methodological, that you are willing to share. Write to us and we will certainly agree on cooperation. The idea will be published as your original work, we are not thieves of other people's ideas. On the contrary, targeted cooperation of breeders, their mutual testing, critical views and improvements are what moves breeding forward and leads to its greater success.
Nature is changing due to human influence, the climate, landscape, diversity are changing. On the other hand, technological progress is not standing aside, new materials and technologies are being added - who among us beekeepers would have said, for example, 5 years ago that we would be using things from a 3D printer in our hives...
In order for an animal species to survive, it must be able to adapt. This is the law of nature and even the breeder should not stand aside... Manufacturers are here to produce good things. They should also want satisfied customers and, above all, produce functional and high-quality products.
We firmly believe that our intentions will be fulfilled and that other breeders will not stand aside with their ideas.

Bumblebees PLUS – A shelter over a drop
Photo O, Hercog 6/2020
