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A tool designed to test the cleaning or hygienic instinct of the hive and thus determine its degree or behavior.
It consists of a tool that has 50 needles calibrated on a base to match 50 cells of a honeycomb.
Available in standard cell size of 5.4 millimeters and also in 4.9 and 5.1mm.

How to use:
Take by hand and pierce the comb in an area with a closed brood of about 10 or 15 days, it can be done with a perforation of 50 or with two perforations of 50 + 50 in order to make the calculations easier in percent ( %), then mark the area with a felt-tip pen so that it can be checked for about six to eight and 24 hours. Drilling kills the larvae inside and thus allows you to check the cleaning behavior of the bee colony. perforated if at 6 hours the bees have cleaned over 70% of the cells, at 8 hours about 90% and at 24 hours 100% it can be considered that the hygienic behavior of said hive is acceptable.

Characteristics:

• Useful Hygienic behavior of the hive.
• Material: Steel and plastic.
• Number of needles: 50 units.
• Models: 5.4-5.1 and 4.9mm.