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How to prevent ants in beekeeping?

Measures to prevent ants from harming bee colonies Bai Jianmin Ants are one of the main enemies of bees. They are widely distributed, especially in hot and humid areas and forests. There are many types of mosquitoes, and the ones that are more harmful to bees include big black ants, individual black ants, big yellow ants and individual yellow ants. A large number of ants invade the hives, steal honey and attack bees, which will cause harm to the bee colonies. In serious cases, the entire colony can be destroyed. Especially in professional queen breeding farms, there are many mating small nucleus groups, which are the objects of ant invasion. The phenomenon of being attacked and escaping by ants often occurs, which affects beekeeping production and should be taken seriously by beekeepers. The main measures to prevent mosquitoes: 1. First of all, weeds around the beehives should be removed to keep the bee farm dry and clean. When managing the bee colony, do not throw wax residues and cut drone spleens at random, and be careful not to splash wax and honey juice outside the hive. The beehive should be raised with wooden stakes or bricks, and some quicklime, sulfur powder and plant ash should be sprinkled around. If it rains, sprinkle it again on sunny days. 2. Isolate and kill with poison. Sprinkle chlordane powder around the affected bee colony or where ants often come and go, and then cover the powder with a thin layer of fine sand to form an isolation belt. When the mother ants leave the nest and pass through the drug belt, they will be poisoned and die. If there is no agent, you can also use 0.05 kg of Zhuangdan crude oil and 0.6 kg of fine soil, mix well and spread. 3. Kill with poison bait. Foreign countries often use 0.5 grams of platinum sulfate, 75 grams of peanut butter, and 20 grams of sugar, mix well to make poison bait, lure them to eat, and gradually poison the ants to death. Poison bait is prepared as needed and placed in places where ants often appear...(

Sprinkle a circle of quicklime "powder belt" around the beehive, with a width of more than 10 cm.

Dig a small trench about 10 cm deep and 5 cm wide around the beehive, smooth it with cement or pad it with plastic sheeting, then pour in clean water, and finally hoe off the weeds around the beehive to prevent ants from crossing the trench and invading the beehive. Although this method is simple and easy to implement, it is easy for individual bees to fall into the trench and drown.

To prevent ant damage, of course, the most fundamental thing is to choose a colony that is weak in swarming and can maintain a strong colony to breed queen bees. Raising a strong colony is the best way to prevent ant damage.

There is ant killer in the vegetable market. Buy some and sprinkle it around the beehive. After the ants eat the ant killer, they will go crazy and bite their companions to death. Soon, the ants in the same nest will kill each other.

Beekeeping is a highly technical job. How do you prevent ants from invading when raising bees?

Ants are the natural enemies of bees and can be divided into two major categories: termites that specialize in destroying honey boxes, and bee-eating ants that attack bees and steal honey.

The main natural enemies of bees are wasps, toads, birds, spiders, ants, cockroaches, etc. The biggest pest of Italian bees is mites, and the biggest pest of Chinese bees is nest mites. Prevention and control are very troublesome, which is a headache for beekeepers. When breeding Italian bees, the infestation of mites must be controlled regularly. Mites exist in nature. When bees collect flowers, they can easily attach to the flowers and bring them back to the hive. Disinsection and nest cleaning will also lead to outbreaks again, so Italian beekeepers must prevent mites for almost every major honey source.

The beehive insects in the middle were brought in from outside. There is a kind of wax moth that particularly likes to eat beeswax. It will take the opportunity to drill into the beehive at night to lay eggs. The eggs will hatch into nest insects. They will eat the honeycomb and bite the pupae, which is very harmful to bees. The key to prevention and control methods is to make the bee colony dense and the worker bees have sufficient cleaning ability, so that the eggs produced by the wax moth can be cleaned out in time and cannot hatch and harm the bee colony. In addition, the beehive must be tight and there must be no holes or gaps for the wax moth to drill into.

The nest door should be as small as possible to prevent wax moths from entering. There should be no lights in the apiary, which will attract a large number of wax moths and the hive will be overwhelmed. Beekeepers should pay attention to cleaning the wax scraps at the bottom of the hive, pay attention to changing the combs to keep the bee colony clean, and try to use new combs so that the nest eggs have no hiding place to avoid harm. There are now drugs to treat this disease, such as Chao Chuqing. However, it is difficult to cure nest worms with drugs. Centralized treatment is required. And wasps, whether Italian or Chinese, are harmful. The only way to prevent and control them, in addition to the ruthless killing of wasps, is to find a way to remove the wasp nest.

Or catch a few live bumblebees, stick a highly toxic pesticide powder on their backs, let the bumblebees fly back to the hive, poison the hive, and kill all the bumblebees. You can also use a net bag to block the bees outside the hive door, but the workers can go in and out normally. Toads only come out at night, run to the hive door, and eat the worker bees guarding outside. In addition to catching toads regularly every night, the solution is to raise the hive so that the toads cannot get close to the nest door, so that the bees will not be eaten. As for birds and dragonflies, they are also good at eating flying bees. But we really can't help.

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