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Why don't bees enter the beehive? How to prevent wasps from entering the beehive?

1. The beehive is stuffy: The weather temperature is too high or there are too many bees, which makes the beehive too hot and lacks oxygen. At this time, you need to enlarge the nest door to increase the ventilation and air permeability of the beehive, or expand the bee path and add a super. 2. Pests and diseases: The threat of paralysis, cystic brood disease, ants, nest insects, mites and other pests and diseases will cause the bees to not enter the nest. At this time, you need to open the box for inspection, and then take appropriate measures according to the specific situation.

1. Why do bees not enter the hive?

1. The beehive is stuffy

(1) The weather temperature is too high or there are too many bees in the bee colony, causing the beehive to be too hot and stuffy and lack of oxygen. The bees cannot adapt and therefore stay outside the hive.

(2) Solution: You can enlarge the hive door appropriately. If there is a bottom window, you can open the ventilation window to increase the ventilation and air permeability of the beehive. In addition, when the temperature is high, expand the bee path in time. If there are more than 6 beehives, add supers to ensure that the bees have enough living space.

2. Pests and diseases

Threats from pests and diseases such as paralysis, sac brood disease, ants, nest insects, and mites will cause bees to not enter the hive. At this time, it is necessary to open the box for inspection, and then take appropriate measures for prevention and control based on the specific situation.

3. Location of beehives

(1) The beehive is placed in an unreasonable location. Generally speaking, the beehive should be placed in a ventilated and cool place.

(2) There should not be any stagnant water or moisture in the beehive, and it should not be placed directly in the sun.

(3) At night, beehives cannot be placed in places with lights, otherwise the bees will fly around the light and die of exhaustion.

2. How to prevent wasps around beehives

1. Manual guard

Before wasps attack a bee colony on a large scale, scout bees will come to observe. Once the scout bees find that the resistance of the bee colony is not strong, they will lead the wasps in the same nest to invade the bee colony. Therefore, when breeders find wasps coming to scout, they need to kill them in time.

2. Install the baffle

Wasps are larger than bees, so a baffle can be installed above the hive door and adjusted to a level that allows bees to enter smoothly but wasps cannot. This can effectively prevent wasps from invading the beehive, but it has no effect on wasps that kill bees at the hive entrance.

3. Carrying traps

After catching the hornet, use tweezers to clamp it, then smear syrup mixed with highly toxic pesticides on its chest and abdomen, and let it escape back to the nest. The other hornets will be poisoned and die after sucking the poisonous syrup.

4. Destroy the beehive

After catching the hornet, tie a colored silk thread on its body and then let it fly away. Then follow the colored silk thread to find the beehive. When the beehive is found, destroy it.

I have raised some bees, how can I prevent hornets from harassing me?

It is relatively simple to breed hornets for eating and beekeeping. Usually, the methods we usually use are artificial beating, finding ways to destroy the hive, and poisoning. From these methods, the best way to treat wasps is actually poison, because poisoning can solve the problem fundamentally, but this is not conducive to the development of ecology, especially now that the number of wasps is decreasing. Even extinct in many places. Although wasps are a huge hazard in our beekeeping process, they still have certain benefits to agriculture.

Slap

This method is more common and can well prevent wasps from flying. You can prepare small wooden boards, etc. When you see a wasp coming in, you can easily stun it. The wasp is very large and it will stun with one press. Then we grab it for processing, trample it to death, or soak it in wine. Relatively speaking, this method is harmless to wasps. Just some scattered wasps will die without eliminating the wasps. For places where there are not many wasps, it can still be used.

Poisoning

The poisoning method is to capture the wasp without killing it, apply honey to the wasp, and then let the wasp return to the nest to poison other wasps. This method is more vicious and can achieve the effect of exterminating wasps. However, if there are not many wasps in our local area, this method should not be used. This method can easily lead to the extinction of wasps. Especially in places where there are artificial wasp breeding nearby, this method is absolutely not available, otherwise it will easily lead to serious consequences.

Adding Barriers

The bee tribe believes that this method is better. If there are not many wasps, it will protect the wasps without letting the wasps harm the colony. The method is to use a barbed wire with a mesh size of 1 square centimeter to enclose all beehives on one side of the nest door. This is equivalent to expanding the defense range of the bees. The bees are in the net and the wasps cannot attack the bees, thereby protecting the bees without harming the wasps.

Destructive methods

This method is to find the hornet's nest and find a way to destroy the nest. Usually, the hornet's nest is in a high place or under the eaves and in a soil hole. As for the question of how to destroy it, there are actually a few ways to do it, depending on whether we can see the hive and whether we are determined to destroy it.

Wasps have important ecological and edible value. Nowadays, more and more people are breeding wasps. Coupled with the poisonous killing and ecological destruction of beekeepers, the number of wasps in many places has become more serious. There are too few of them. For our commonly used methods such as poisoning and returning to the nest, if the distribution of wasps is too much, the bee colony thinks that it can be used appropriately. If the wasps are not distributed, the defense method is still used to let the wasps continue to exist. At the same time, in the process of beekeeping, we can also enhance the resistance of bees to wasps by building a strong colony, and avoid the huge and serious consequences of wasps on the colony.

There are several methods: 1. Reduce the size of the nest entrance: There are many types of hornets and only large hornets can threaten the bee colony. Therefore, reducing the size of the hive entrance is to prevent hornets from invading the hive. 2. Manual beating: When hornets kill bees near the beehive, beekeepers must beat them in time. 3. When using poison to kill hornets, first pay attention to the safety of humans and animals. Do not let humans and animals come into contact with them. Then use odorless poison, put it in chopped livestock and poultry meat, put it in a plate, or in a bowl, and put it on a chair near the apiary, waiting for the hornets to come and eat the livestock and poultry meat, and then they will be poisoned to death.

You can prevent wasps by manually beating them or shrinking the nest entrance, or by burning them, which can all play a certain role.

1. Slapping method and net bag method. If the number is small, you can use tools to manually beat and eliminate them. The beekeeper waits in the apiary and can kill the wasps when he finds them.

2. Trapping method. Wasps not only like to eat bees, but also like to eat the corpses of their own kind. Generally, the carnivorous habit of wasps is used to facilitate swatting. Golden ring wasps can be trapped with the dead bodies of their companions.

3. Using fire or DDT cotton balls are very effective. Once you find a hornet's nest, you can use the hanging line method to track the hornets.

4. The pesticide application method works best. When catching wasps, you can use an insect net to catch a few wasps alive, and then apply poisonous honey containing pesticides on their bodies. After the wasps with poisonous honey fly back to the nest, the wasps in the same nest will come over to lick the honey with poisonous honey, and the wasps that like to eat the poisonous honey will die soon.