CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to keep wild bees from the mountains without honeycombs? Will the bee colony die? Why do bees always gather together in a group in the beehive? Please answer if you know the answer! ! Thank you!

1. How to keep wild bees from the mountains without honeycombs? Will the bee colony die? Why do bees always gather together in a group in the beehive? Please answer if you know the answer! ! Thank you!

A layer of honey is artificially applied on the beehive. It is normal for wild bees to be uncomfortable with the first few days. Once the queen bee is in a good mood, you can release the little bees to collect honey.

2. Why don’t the newly collected bees build nests?

A beehive is a place where bees live and reproduce, and bees also have the instinct to secrete wax to build nests. However, sometimes newly collected bee colonies do not build nests for a long time. In fact, a bee colony cannot survive long without a beehive. Therefore, many novices want to know why bees do not build nests. Let’s take a look at why newly collected bees do not build nests!

1. No Queen Bee

The queen bee is a necessary prerequisite for the stability of the bee colony. Without a queen bee, the bees will show panic, anxiety and other emotions of losing the queen. In fact, the newly collected bees do not build nests mostly because they have lost their queen. If it is really caused by the loss of the queen, it must be remedied in time. The fastest remedy is to introduce a new queen bee. If there is no ready-made queen bee, a mature queen cell can be introduced. If there is no queen bee and queen cell, some egg and larvae combs can be drawn from other groups for the bee colony to "emergency build queen cells."

2. Lack of Food

The raw material for the bee colony to build honeycombs is beeswax, which is a fatty substance secreted by the wax glands of worker bees. However, the worker bees need to consume a lot of food to secrete beeswax, otherwise it is impossible to produce beeswax out of thin air. Without beeswax, there is naturally no way to build nests. Therefore, the failure of newly collected bees to build nests may be caused by the lack of food in the bee colony. At this time, the best remedy is to supplement food to the bee colony in time, and if conditions permit, some honey combs can be drawn from other colonies.

3. Beehive Problems

Beehives are the most basic tools for beekeeping. In fact, bees also have certain requirements for beehives. The most important of which is that the beehive cannot have odors that bees don't like. If the beehive has an odor, the bee colony will not build a nest. Therefore, it is best to use old beehives to feed the newly collected bee colonies. The reason is that old beehives contain beeswax, honey, pollen and other smells that bees like. If you use a new beehive, it is best to apply a layer of beeswax on the inner wall of the beehive in advance.

4. Environmental discomfort

Although bees have strong adaptability to the natural environment, the behavior of the bee colony will be restricted in certain harsh environments. For example, in the severe winter, the bee colony will not secrete wax to build nests, but will instead form clusters and rely on eating honey to produce heat to survive the cold winter. In other words, the activity of the bee colony will slow down or even stop during the hot summer season. In other words, the nesting behavior of the bee colony will be affected by the natural environment. Therefore, it is not recommended to capture bee colonies in the severe winter or the hot summer.

Summary: The most common reason why newly collected bees do not build nests is that the colony has lost its queen. The second is that there is not enough food in the colony to support the worker bees to secrete wax. The third is that the beehive has an odor that the bees hate and the colony is unwilling to settle down. Finally, the natural environment at that time is not suitable for the colony to secrete wax and build nests.

It may be that the environment is not adapted to the lack of food, there are problems with the beehive, or there is no queen bee. The queen bee is a necessary prerequisite for the stability of the bee colony. It is necessary to analyze the cause in detail before dealing with it.

If this happens, the bee colony will lose its queen, and the colony will become extremely nervous and anxious.

It may be due to the absence of a queen bee, or it may be due to the lack of sufficient food for production.

3. What should I do if the new bee colony does not have a queen bee?

1. Intervention of the Queen Bee

Intervening with a queen bee is the most effective method, which requires a new queen bee and certain queen introduction techniques. The queen bee can be obtained from other apiaries or purchased online. In fact, many medium and large apiaries have a certain number of queen bees in reserve for emergencies. After solving the source of queen bees, the next step is technology. You must be careful when introducing a new queen bee into the bee colony, otherwise it is easy to surround the queen bee and cause injury or death to the queen bee. The specific method is to use honey water to confuse the smell of the queen bee and the bee colony so that the bee colony accepts the new queen bee. When the bee colony feeds the queen bee normally and the queen bee lays eggs normally, it means the queen introduction is successful.

2. Intervention of the royal cell

Inserting queen cells is the simplest method, which requires a mature queen cell and an appropriate amount of drones. The queen cell is a special nesting cell where the bee colony breeds new queens. It looks like a peanut shell and is usually located at the bottom of the honeycomb. It is darker in color when mature. Inserting queen cells into the bee colony is much simpler than inserting queens. Just fix the queen cells at the bottom of the honeycomb at night and pay attention to the acceptance of the bee colony. However, inserting queen cells also has a disadvantage, that is, after the queen bee is born, there needs to be a certain amount of drones outside. In fact, many people who keep bees for the first time do not have this condition.

3. Introducing Daughter Spleens

Introducing brood combs is the most troublesome method, which requires a certain amount of egg, larvae, and drones. In fact, both worker bees and queen bees are developed from fertilized eggs. The queen bee eats royal jelly for her entire life after hatching from the fertilized eggs, while the worker bees can eat royal jelly in the first three days after hatching, and can only eat ordinary food after that. If the worker bee larvae can continue to eat royal jelly, they will develop into queen bees. After introducing brood combs into the queenless colony, the worker bees will "urgently build royal cells" to cultivate new queens, but the introduced brood combs must contain small larvae or fertilized eggs within three days. At the same time, after the queen bee comes out, there must be a certain amount of drones and queen bees in the outside world to mate.

4. Merge colonies

Merging bee colonies is the most helpless method. If there is no queen bee and queen cells and no egg and larvae combs of the right age, the queenless colony can only be merged into other queen bee colonies. This can help to strengthen the colony. But generally, other bee colonies will have egg and larvae combs. In fact, it is only when the number of bees in the newly collected colony is too small or the number of bee colonies in the apiary has reached saturation that it will be merged into other colonies. If this group of queenless bees is left alone, the final result will be the demise of the entire colony. From this point of view, the most troublesome thing in beekeeping is the first colony of bees. Once you have a colony of bees, you will have many advantages.

Summary: The most effective way to deal with newly harvested bees without a queen bee is to introduce a queen bee or queen cells. A relatively complicated method is to introduce brood combs for the bee colony to "urgently build queen cells." Please note that once worker bees develop into adult bees, they can never become queen bees. If left unchecked, the entire colony will eventually die out.

Newly harvested bees should try to find the queen bee around the bee colony or hive; If the queen bee cannot be found, try to get some spleens, put the spleens and bee colonies into the beehive, and the worker bees will build a queen bee to breed a new queen bee. ; In the case of no queen bee and spleen, new queen bees or mature queen bees can be involved; If the mature queen bee is difficult to find, some egg spleens can also be transferred at this time.

I think at this time you can prepare an egg-laying queen, then imprison it and place it in the bee colony. After 1 to 2 days, observe the worker bees surrounding the queen. If the worker bees no longer surround the queen, it means that the worker bees have accepted the queen.

If there is no queen bee, you can keep the bees together and they will choose the queen bee themselves, so you don't have to worry about it at all.