CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Why can’t novice beekeepers always get honey?

1. Why can’t novice beekeepers always get honey?

Hello everyone, many new friends who have just started beekeeping often like to ask me: "Why can't we get honey during the honey season? Why can the bees we raise always get so much honey?"

Please note that first of all, beekeeping requires you to seriously understand the characteristics and habits of bees. What you need to know is that bees can do different jobs at different working ages. If your bees are all old bees or new bees that have just left the hive during the flowering season, then you can imagine that these bees will definitely not help you collect honey successfully. So, if you plan to show your skills and collect more honey in the honey season.

Then, the first step is to find a way to breed more bees 35 to 40 days in advance. This is called early breeding, breeding about 40 centimeters in advance. And the second step is to use the official website to collect honey, that is, to get honey but not bees. In the honey collection season, some friends usually use the method of excessive honey collection in order to obtain a large amount of honey. In the end, they did not properly manage the honey after collecting it, which caused many problems in the bee colony.

In fact, many novice beekeepers do not understand that: "The more honey your bee colony steps on, the faster and more your bees will die. After we lock up the queen bee, the bee colony as a whole stops laying eggs during a flowering period, and only honey will splash out, not pollen. The beehive lids in the thatched house are also one less, freeing up a lot of space for the worker bees to produce honey. Although you don't get honey in the honey season, your bees may reproduce better. On the contrary, if you get a lot of honey in the honey season, then you may face the fact that your bee colony will collapse all of a sudden, because you can't have your cake and eat it too.

1. Lack of experience

The lack of honey for novice beekeepers may be due to their lack of experience. Many novices have just started beekeeping and do not know much about the living habits of bees. They also do not have a reasonable plan for the development of bee colonies, which can easily lead to the situation where there is no honey in the bee colonies. For example, if the bees are not bred in time, the bee colonies will not have enough forage bees to collect nectar during the honey flow season. When the honey flow ends, the bee colonies will develop, but there are not many nectar plants in the outside world, which will consume the few stored honey in the bee colonies.

2. Reluctant to invest in feeding

The reason why novices cannot get honey may be because they are reluctant to feed bees. Many novices collect or trap bees from the wild, which basically does not cost much. They are reluctant to feed bees when they need to feed the bee colony, which leads to the bee colony being weak and no honey being available. In serious cases, the bees may even flee or starve to death. For example, if reward feeding is not carried out when the bee colony is growing, the bee colony will develop slowly. When the honey flow period comes, the bee colony will not have enough bees for collecting, which will lead to low honey production and no honey.

They believe the legend that Chinese bees can only collect honey once a year and never do so. Since Chinese bees have poor honey-collecting ability and there is not much honey stored in the beehive, many amateur beekeepers are reluctant to collect honey and never feed their bees.

It is because when you were raising bees, you did not pay attention to the key points of beekeeping, and you did not know the correct way to collect honey.

2. Is it okay to place a Honey King Grid at the door of the beehive for a long time?

This is absolutely not allowed. What is the point of putting it there? If there is honey stored in it, it will cause bees to fight. If you want the bees to store honey in it, forget it. You must put it in the beehive! If you put it outside in hot weather, it will melt directly in the sun, and the bees will not notice it, because bees are animals, including humans. No one can put the fruits of their labor at the door for selfless dedication!

It is not allowed to place Honey King at the door of the beehive for a long time

3. Is a beehive the same as honeycomb honey?

They are different. A beehive refers to a beehive, while honeycomb honey is a honeycomb that has been brewed and matured by bees and sealed with wax. It consists of two parts: honeycomb and honey.

Beehive and honeycomb are two completely different things. A beehive is a beehive where bees reproduce, store honey, and also pollen. Honeycomb honey is honey with a beehive, which is the honey in the cells that has not been shaken out. Honeycomb honey includes both the beehive and the honey, while a beehive is just a beehive. This is the difference, the two are different.