CATDOLL : CATDOLL: In rural areas, hornet nests are raised in the deep mountains. One kilogram of bee pupae can be sold for 150 yuan. Can beekeeping help people get out of poverty and become rich?

Hornet nests are raised in the deep mountains of rural areas, and one kilogram of bee pupae can be sold for 150 yuan. Can beekeeping help people get rid of poverty and become rich?

Although the current price of bee pupae is 150 yuan per kilogram, we have not calculated the cost. In other words, if we raise wasps, how much of the 150 yuan is the cost and how much we can earn. Only in this way can we predict how much we can earn from raising wasps in a year. Wasps need a certain breeding environment, not all places are suitable for breeding, so we first need to see whether the local area is suitable for raising wasps, to what extent the environment and climate are suitable, and whether there are natural conditions to reduce the cost of raising wasps.

In terms of products, in fact, the products of wasps are not only bee pupae, but also queen bees and bees are the main products of wasps. If we raise wasps, we have the ability to produce these products, and at the same time we can accurately know the breeding cost and the total output, and finally get how much we can earn after breeding. In fact, the problem faced by many breeding industries is no longer a production problem, but a sales problem. Therefore, whether we are breeding or planting, the first thing we should consider is sales.

Wasps, also known as hornets and black bees, are neither farmed nor cultivated. It does not mean that you can just raise them and then rest assured. Cichu believes that there are two main modes of raising wasps: one is the lazy and magical free-range mode, and the other is the professional breeding mode. The so-called lazy and magical free-range mode is to run to the suburbs and find ways to bring the honeycomb home, and then hang it in a convenient place, allowing it to move freely, grow and reproduce, and finally obtain products such as bee pupae and honeycombs. The professional breeding mode is different from the lazy and magical free-range mode. It needs to overcome various difficulties and create a series of conditions for the growth, food, wintering, and reproduction of wasps.

Raising wasps is similar to other farming. Raising wasps is not that easy. First, you need to master the farming techniques; second, the local climate must be suitable; third, the surrounding environment conditions must be met. Nowadays, some farmers like to raise two boxes of Chinese bees, which is similar to raising a few free-range chickens. They do not make money, but only want to be able to pick them for their own family and relatives. Wasps are the nemesis of honey bees and other small insects. If there are farmers nearby who raise honey bees and other small bees, they are likely to become food for wasps.

I think it is possible to get rid of poverty and become rich by raising bees. The future prospects of this industry are still very good. If you persist in it for a long time, there will be good prospects in the future.

It is possible to get out of poverty and become rich by raising bees, because the price of local honey is very high now. If you raise them particularly well, you can make a lot of money.

I believe that raising bees can help people get out of poverty and become rich. After all, in the current market, the value of honey is very high, and the value of wild honey is even higher than that of ordinary honey. It can also vigorously develop surrounding tourism, which will have many benefits for local rural areas.

Wasps are a common species of bee in our daily lives. Can they be raised artificially?

Wasps are a common species of bee in our daily lives. Can they be raised artificially?

1. Wasps can be cultivated artificially, but it should be noted that wasps are highly aggressive and easy to sting. If you want to cultivate them artificially, you must choose a place away from people. In addition to mastering mature breeding techniques, wasp breeding also requires the preparation of commonly used beekeeping tools, such as bee cages, bee sheds, beehives, etc. At night, use insect nets to collect insects at the place where the bee colony hibernates and put them in bee cages for breeding. Put 300 to 500 heads in each bee cage, cover them with black cloth, and put them in a dry, ventilated, undisturbed empty house to reduce the amount of activity and promote their early hibernation. In order to avoid the difficulty of finding the bee colony after leaving the nest, you can also take it back to the original nest in mid-September, put it in a cage or box, and use the upward habit of the bee colony to put ripe apples, peaches and vegetables with more water at the bottom of the cage. This method is very good.

2. Wasps can indeed be cultivated artificially. In some mountainous areas, the original wasp nests were used to take out the pupae and sell them. In some small counties around Panzhihua, Sichuan, there are many restaurants selling wasp pupae, which are expensive and nutritious. Many places have begun to cultivate wasps once a year. For wasps, if the wasps have just built a nest, that is, when there is only the queen bee, and they are caught for breeding at this time, the bee tribe believes that the possibility of successful breeding is not great, because at this time the queen bee is not only responsible for laying eggs and foraging, but also for predation, so the wasps are free to move at this time.

3. If we only catch the queen bee, once the queen bee returns to the wild, it may not necessarily return to our breeding grounds, but if we catch a nest of wasps, there are already worker bees and drones. At this time, the lifestyle of wasps is actually the same as that of honey bees. The queen bee is laying eggs all the time, the worker bees are waiting and feeding on the side, and the drones still have nothing to do. At this time, if we catch both the worker bees and the hive, we can successfully reproduce. Wasps are a large family with many species, but most of them are large wasps that are artificially bred, such as golden wasps, black-tailed wasps, black velvet wasps, yellow-footed wasps, etc. The reason is that these wasps are not only numerous, but also have large larvae. For example, the largest beehive of golden bees can reach 100 kilograms, thereby maximizing the economic benefits of wasp breeding.

It can be raised, but only half-raised. What is half-raised? It means artificially assisting wasps to overwinter safely. When the temperature difference between morning and evening in spring is large, the overwintering queen bees are protected to replenish nutrition and restore their physical strength as soon as possible to avoid the high and low temperatures in spring. The queen bees are weak and die at this time. A greenhouse is built for 500 queen bees. It is built with wooden boards, 2 meters high, 5 meters long, and 3 meters wide. It is covered with sand nets and covered with greenhouse oil paper on the outside for feeding. Before releasing the bees, some straw, bark, rotten grass, apple slices, honey, water, mulberry silkworms, corn stalks and corn cobs with corn borer larvae are put in it. Why put these in, I will talk about it later. Even with artificial assistance, the survival rate of queen bees is only 30%, and there will be a loss of 20% during the nesting period. In the wild environment, the survival rate of queen bees is less than 5%. Sometimes the wrong wintering location is chosen, and the whole army may be wiped out.

I may be the first person in China to raise land bees. I have five years of breeding experience, but it was not very successful. I gave up in 2019. Why do I raise land bees? Because I was a professional buyer of beehives at that time. The price of beehives was not cheap, more than 400 per kilogram. A large beehive weighed three taels and sold for more than 100 yuan. I felt that raising land bees was promising. In the winter of 2014, I began to look for overwintering land bee queens in the wild. There are two types of land bees. One is large, called domestic bees, which make nests on the eaves or branches of houses. The other is called grass bees, which are smaller and make nests on bushes or cracks in rocks in the wild. These two bees have the same appearance characteristics, but their living habits are slightly different. Domestic bees like to prey on caterpillars, mosquitoes, flies, spiders, etc. on trees, while grass bees like to prey on corn borers, young locusts, cabbage worms, etc. Their hives are also different. The size of domestic bees is large, black and hard. They are called big eyes in the industry, which is a big-eyed bee collection. The honeycomb of grass bees is slightly smaller in size and its color is like rotten grass. It is called small-eye honeycomb in the industry. Why are they called big-eye and small-eye? Because the two bees are different in size, the eyes of the individual small houses in the honeycomb cells are different in size. The domestic land wasp is large in size and has large eyes in the honeycomb cells, so it is called big-eye, while the grass bee is small in size and has small eyes in the honeycomb cells, so it is called small-eye. However, these two types of honeycombs cannot be crushed by hand. They are called soft honeycombs in medicine. They are also genuine honeycombs and are expensive.

When is the best time to capture a land wasp queen?

Why capture ground wasp queens in these two seasons?

How to ensure the captured queen wasp safely overwinter?

Why should we prepare corn stalks with corn borer larvae for winter?

Why prepare mulberry silkworm cocoons?

How to feed and manage land wasps when they emerge from sting in spring?

Why are straw, tree bark and rotten grass placed in the beehives of land bees?

How to feed ground wasps in spring?

When will the beehives of land bees be opened to allow them to return to nature?

When land wasps return to nature, will they return to the beehive every day?

How to set up a wintering box for ground wasps in autumn?

How to reduce the cost of manual capture and allow land wasps to automatically enter the box to overwinter?

What are the benefits of artificially breeding wasps?

What is the biggest challenge in artificially raising wasps?

In which provinces are land wasps suitable for breeding?

What kind of environment do ground wasps adapt to?

8,000 words are not enough to answer these questions. I will post a special article on Baijiahao to provide further answers.

Finally, I want to say that as long as there is a suitable environment, wasps can be raised. After the wasps build nests and lay eggs in the beehive, let them live in a natural state. Wasps have the habit of staying in their nests and fly out to prey and feed their young. Otherwise, it is difficult for wasps to survive. They are carnivores and prey on all kinds of insects. How can you catch so many insects if you feed them artificially?

But they should be raised in dispersed manner. If the density of beehives in a mountain forest is too high, food will be scarce, and the bee colony will have difficulty in hunting, which will weaken the population. There are also weather and environmental factors. Wasps like dry and hot weather, and so do various insects.

This is a big eye beehive

Small eye honeycomb

Of course, artificial breeding is actually very good, and it will also have a very good income and profit in the future. Now many people will choose artificial breeding because it is particularly reassuring, and people are also very confident when buying, and there will be many old customers returning.

They cannot be bred artificially because the false wasps of hornets are poisonous, and artificial breeding cannot provide a good living environment for hornets.

They can be bred artificially, but hornets are quite aggressive and are particularly likely to sting people, so they should be bred in places away from people.