CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to breed wasps?

1. How to breed wasps?

1At night, when they are inactive, use an insect net to collect them from the wintering place of the cluster, and place them in a beehive made of wire or wood with sufficient room for movement. A 1 cubic foot beehive can hold 300 to 500 bees.

2. Cover the beehive with black cloth and place it in a dry, ventilated, undisturbed room to control and reduce its activity, prompt it to enter hibernation early, and reduce its death caused by excessive consumption of nutrients.

3. To avoid being difficult to find after the bee colony leaves the nest, you can also harvest them from the original nest in mid-September and put them in a cage. Taking advantage of the upward habit of the bees, put ripe apples, peaches and juicy vegetables at the bottom of the cage as food.

4 When the temperature is high at noon, place it in the sun for 3 to 4 hours to make it move around and eat. Although this will delay the semi-hibernation period, it can still safely survive the winter due to the added nutrition.

The scientific name of the wasp is "Vespa", also known as "hornet" or "hornet".

Wasps are a widely distributed, diverse, fast-flying insect. They belong to the family Vespidae of the order Hymenoptera. Female wasps have a powerful long stinger. When attacked or disturbed unfriendly, they will attack in groups, which can cause allergic and toxic reactions in people, and in severe cases, death. Wasps usually build nests with softened pulp-like wood pulp and eat animal or plant food.

Wasps have chewing mouthparts and antennae with 12 or 13 segments. They are usually winged, with a thin waist connecting the thorax and abdomen, and a formidable sting on the abdomen. Adults feed mainly on nectar, but larvae feed on insects provided by the mother. There are more than 20,000 known species, most of which are solitary. Social wasps are limited to about 1,000 species of Vespidae in the superfamily Vespoidea, which also includes giant wasps and yellow jacket wasps. These species are related to the family Arachnididae.

The appearance of the wasp's adult body also has the standard characteristics of insects, including head, thorax, abdomen, three pairs of legs and a pair of antennae. At the same time, its simple eyes, compound eyes and wings are also common to most insects. In addition, a degenerate oviduct is hidden at the end of the abdomen, which is the poisonous bee sting. The adult body is mostly black, yellow and brown, or a single color. It has different sizes of punctures or is smooth. The hairs are generally short. The legs are long. The wings are well developed and fly quickly. The front wings are folded vertically when they are still, covering the back of the body.

The mouthparts are well developed, and the upper jaws are relatively strong. The male bee has 7 segments on the abdomen and no stinger. The female bee has 6 segments on the abdomen, with a stinger formed by an ovipositor at the end, connected to a poison sac, which secretes venom with strong toxicity. The pupa is a yellow-white pupa, and the color deepens with age. The head, thorax, and abdomen are distinct, and the main organs are clearly visible. Many wasps overwinter as pupae. The larvae are spindle-shaped, white, and have no legs. The body has 13 segments.

Toxins and stings: Wasp toxins are divided into two categories: hemolytic toxins and neurotoxins. They can cause liver, kidney and other organ failures. Especially if they sting a person's blood vessels, they are life-threatening and are especially dangerous to people with allergies. Wasp stingers do not have venom glands and can launch multiple attacks or stings on people.

2. How much profit can you make from raising wasp fish in a year?

The annual profit from raising wasp fish is generally around 60,000 to 80,000 yuan, but it also depends on the scale of the breeding.

More than 20,000 wasp fish are stocked in each pond. It takes six months to one year from stocking to selling. The price is based on weight. There are 1,500 kilograms of fish in each pond. The market wholesale price is about 24 to 32 yuan per kilogram, and the profit is more than 30,000 yuan, which is very considerable.

3. 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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4. When is the general breeding season for wasps?

The fastest breeding season for honey bees is in spring, which is mainly affected by the nectar source, colony strength, climate and other conditions. In fact, as long as there are worker bees, the queen bee will lay eggs non-stop. All individuals in the colony (new queen bees, drones and worker bees) are developed from its eggs. A queen bee after mating has 5 to 7 million sperms in its spermatheca and can produce 800 to 1,300 eggs a day and night. A good queen bee can lay more than 100,000 eggs a year.



How to raise bees so that they reproduce quickly?

1. Appropriate flying: Spring is a critical period for the reproduction of bees. During the winter, a lot of garbage will be deposited in the intestines of the bees. The presence of this garbage is not conducive to the growth and reproduction of bees. Appropriate flying can help excrete the garbage in the body.

2. Beehive insulation: Spring is a time when the weather and temperature are changeable, especially in early spring when the outside temperature is relatively low and cannot reach the temperature required for the growth of bee larvae. At this time, farmers need to heat their beehives.

3. Queen rearing and swarming: Most of the queens in the spring bee colony are old queens bred in the previous year. After two seasons of laying eggs, the peak egg-laying period of the old queen is basically over. Therefore, it is best to do queen rearing and swarming early.



How do bees swarm so quickly?

1. Swarming of bees in the same colony and box: open an additional nest door one week in advance, adjust the brood combs and honey and pollen combs on both sides equally according to the situation of the colony, divide it in two with a middle partition, and introduce an egg-laying queen bee or virgin queen cell to the queenless side the next day.

2. Swarming of supers and bottom boxes: Arrange the bottom box and the super on the flat box. Then take out 2-3 honeycombs with bees and brood from the colony and put them into the bottom box or super. The next day, introduce an egg-laying queen bee or virgin queen cell.

3. Move the bees to another location and swarm the bees: Prepare the egg-laying queen bee before moving the bee farm. Then after the move and before the bees have a test flight, move the bees and their combs into the empty beehives, at least 2 to 3 combs. The next day, introduce an egg-laying queen or a virgin queen.

4. Swarming during the queen replacement season: 2 to 3 days before the queen cell is moved out of the house, take out 2 to 3 combs with the original queen bee and brood, and continue to breed as a breeding group. A virgin queen is introduced into the original group to mate with it. The separated group can be pulled away from the original apiary as a breeding group, or it can be placed in the original apiary. 1. Types of wasps

1. Golden ring wasp: This wasp belongs to the order Hymenoptera, family Vespidae, and can reach a body length of 40 mm. It is the largest wasp in the world and mainly lives in mountainous areas with an altitude of 1000-2000 meters. Since it can prey on a variety of insects, it has a high utilization value in biological control, but at the same time it will also suck ripe fruits, which brings certain harm to agricultural crops.

2. Black-tailed wasp: This wasp is a relatively common and larger species, with different patterns and sizes. This wasp is mainly divided into two categories, the diligent black-tailed and the lazy black-tailed. The lazy black-tailed wasp nest can reach up to 3 kilograms, while the diligent black-tailed can reach about 20-30 kilograms.

3. Black-shielded hornet: This bee usually nests in holes in the ground or trees in the south, but some also nest in dense bushes. In the north, this bee mainly nests on trees or rocks. The shape of the hive is the same as that of the yellow-legged hornet, and the largest can reach more than 10 kilograms.

4. Yellow-waisted wasp: This wasp builds its nest in a similar way to the golden-ringed black-tailed wasp. It prefers places with many bushes. Its nest can weigh up to 10 kilograms. However, this wasp is very timid. Most of the time, it flies low and in an S shape when it leaves the nest. It is very fast.

5. Yellow-legged hornet: This bee is mainly distributed in areas with high altitudes. The yellow-legged hornet will build its nest in a cave, and will move the nest to trees, bushes, houses, etc. around the Dragon Boat Festival. The largest beehive can reach about 40 kilograms. The yellow-legged hornet is docile, adaptable, and has strong predation ability. It is a relatively impressive breeding bee species.

2. When do wasps begin to hibernate?

1. Wasps hibernate mainly due to the stimulation of temperature factors. For example, when the temperature continues to be below 10℃, the queen bee that has completed mating with the drone will hibernate alone or in small groups in sheltered areas such as stone crevices and tree holes.

2. Hornets mainly overwinter as solitary queens. When the winter comes, all hornets will die except for the mated queen, and the queen will hibernate in a sheltered place throughout the winter.

3. When do wasps collect more pupae?

1. Wasps generally produce the most pupae from March to October. In spring, female wasps go out to find suitable places to build nests and lay eggs. The fertilized eggs they lay will gradually become female wasps, and the unfertilized eggs will become male wasps.

2. If the number of worker bees in the nest has reached the upper limit, the hive will gradually expand. The main work of worker bees is to build nests and raise larvae. After autumn, generally, drones account for about 1/3 of the total number of drones in the nest, which is the period of the year when there are the most drones.

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Every spring, the construction of a new nest begins with a female bee (queen bee). After multiple reproductions and under favorable conditions, the queen bee will produce fertile male and female bees in summer and autumn. The fertilized female bees then enter the wintering period and become active again in spring. The male and worker bees will die in the cold weather. At the end of autumn, the size of the hive reaches its maximum. The hive usually survives for one year.