A device and associated process for hygienizing and warming beehives
aiming at the improvement of the production of organic bee produce, the
device being installed in a beebox including an entrance for bees and
frames for accommodating bees and bee products, and between the frames, a
spacing making available one empty frame for installing the device. The
device comprises a ceramic block inserted in the one empty frame provided
with at least one row containing from 8 to 32 channels being in the
vertical position and where the lower end and the upper end of the
channels are opened towards the inner portion of the beehive, the
channels being: i) thermally insulated from the rest of the one frame
with the aid of wings and ii) traversed by conducting filaments connected
to an energy source by a flat wire, whereby the electrical current
crossing the filaments makes it possible to attain temperatures inside
the channeles between 300-350.degree. C. with ensuing warming of the air
circulating in the beehive by convection, the warmed air from the upper
ends of the channels creating a negative pressure in the lower ends of
same, whereby outer colder air is sucked towards the ceramic channels so
as to sustain continuous circulation of air through the channels, with
the consequent extermination of the microorganisms present in the air as
the microorganisms pass through the warmed channels.