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US 12,219,937 · App. 17/967,983 · Granted Feb 11, 2025

Artificial nest for solitary bees and application method thereof

Inventors: Zengrong Zhu (Hangzhou, CN); Jin Lv (Hangzhou, CN); Xin Yuan (Hangzhou, CN); Wenwu Zhou (Hangzhou, CN); Ping Qian (Hangzhou, CN); Wendi Wu (Hangzhou, CN)
Assignees: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY; HAINAN INSTITUTE OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY; HUZHOU PLANT PROTECTION QUARANTINE AND FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT STATION
A01K47/06
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Patent No.
US 12,219,937
App. No.
17/967,983
Granted
Feb 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to the field of artificial honeycombs, in particular to an artificial nest for solitary bees and an application method of the artificial nest. The artificial nest comprises a main enclosure tube, hanging rings, a plurality of trapping hollow tubes and tightening mechanisms used for clamping the trapping hollow tubes. The hanging rings are arranged at an outer sidewall of the main enclosure tube. The tightening mechanisms are annularly arranged at an inner sidewall of the main enclosure tube, and the trapping hollow tubes are fixed in a ring of each tightening mechanism in an axis direction of the main enclosure tube. Each tightening mechanism comprises a connecting steel wire and fastening springs. The sidewall of the main enclosure tube is provided with fixing holes for fixing the tightening mechanisms.

Claims (4)

1. An artificial nest for solitary bees, comprising a main enclosure tube ( 1 ), hanging rings ( 2 ), a plurality of trapping hollow tubes ( 3 ), and tightening mechanisms ( 4 ) for clamping the trapping hollow tubes ( 3 ), wherein the hanging rings ( 2 ) are arranged at an outer sidewall of the main enclosure tube ( 1 ); the trapping hollow tubes ( 2 ) are made of reed tubes, and the trapping hollow tubes ( 2 ) are opened at both ends and each are provided with a tube node in the middle; each trapping hollow tube ( 2 ) has a length of 20 cm and an inner diameter of 5 mm to 12 mm; the main enclosure tube ( 1 ) is made of a white PVC tube, and has a length of 20 cm and a diameter of 11 cm; fifty to eighty trapping hollow tubes ( 2 ) are arranged inside the main enclosure tube ( 1 ); the tightening mechanisms ( 4 ) are annularly arranged at an inner sidewall of the main enclosure tube ( 1 ), and the trapping hollow tubes ( 3 ) are fixed into a ring of the tightening mechanism ( 4 ) in an axis direction of the main enclosure tube ( 1 ); each tightening mechanism ( 4 ) comprises a connecting wire ( 41 ) and fastening springs ( 42 ), and the sidewall of the main enclosure tube ( 1 ) is provided with fixing holes ( 11 ) for fixing the tightening mechanisms ( 4 ).

2. The artificial nest for solitary bees according to claim 1 , wherein the trapping hollow tubes ( 2 ) are all made of reed stalks; the dry reed stalks harvested in the current year are cut into segments, each segment of reed tube is ensured to have at most 1 node, flat and straight reed tubes with an inner diameter of 5 mm to 12 mm are selected, and then the reed tubes with various tube diameters are randomly mixed uniformly and tightly stuffed into the main enclosure tube ( 1 ).

3. The artificial nest for solitary bees according to claim 1 , wherein the main enclosure tube ( 1 ) is provided with two sets of tightening mechanisms ( 4 ) in an axis direction, and the tightening mechanisms ( 4 ) are 6.5 cm away from the edge of the main enclosure tube ( 1 ).

4. The artificial nest for solitary bees according to claim 1 , wherein the main enclosure tube ( 1 ) is further provided with locking adjusting mechanisms ( 5 ); each of the locking adjusting mechanisms ( 5 ) comprises an adjusting loop coil ( 51 ), a lifting adjusting block ( 52 ), and pulling steel wires ( 53 ); the connecting steel wire ( 41 ) is provided with a fracture ( 411 ), the number of pulling steel wires ( 53 ) is two, the tops of which are fixedly connected to both ends of the fracture ( 411 ) of the connecting steel wire ( 41 ), respectively; the tail parts of the pulling steel wires ( 53 ) are fixed to the lifting adjusting block ( 52 ), the pulling steel wires ( 53 ) are provided by penetrating through the fixing hole ( 11 ), and the lifting adjusting block ( 52 ) is threaded to the adjusting loop coil ( 51 ).

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 13, 2025
From: ZHU, ZENGRONG; LV, JIN; YUAN, XIN; ZHOU, WENWU; QIAN, PING; WU, WENDI
To: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY; HAINAN INSTITUTE OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY; HUZHOU PLANT PROTECTION QUARANTINE AND FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT STATION
Reel/Frame 069835/0488 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 18, 2022
From: ZHU, ZENGRONG; LV, JIN; YUAN, XIN; ZHOU, WENWU; QIAN, PING; WU, WENDI
To: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY; HAINAN INSTITUTE OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY; HUZHOU PLANT PROTECTION QUARANTINE AND FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT STATION
Reel/Frame 061450/0377 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202111213997.5 · Oct 19, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
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