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How to attract bees to a beehive, tips for attracting bees

Generally, bees can be attracted by burning hive fragments, using scout bees and the smell of honey. Taking the use of honey smell to attract bees as an example, old beehives are placed in places where wild bees often move, and honey is applied to the inside of the old beehives. When there are bees in the sealed hives, they need to be moved. To avoid the phenomenon of bees returning, the moving distance is generally required to be more than 3000m.

1. How to attract bees to a beehive

1. Use honey scent

Smear honey on the inside of an old beehive and place it where wild bees often move. Check every evening to see if there are any bees entering. If there are already bees, the hive can be moved and sealed. The required moving distance is more than 3,000 meters to avoid the return of the bees.

2. Use honeycomb fragments

Find an area where wild bees are active in large numbers and place sealed boxes there. At night, light the remains of the hive near the sealed boxes. When the wild bees smell the scent, they will come over. When there is the scent of bees in the sealed boxes, they will automatically enter the sealed boxes.

3. Use scout bees

After finding the trace of the scout bees, first use honey to lure them into the beehive. Do not close the nest door at this time, let them leave on their own. After repeating this several times, the scout bees will bring a large number of bee colonies. After the bee colonies arrive, find the queen bee and cut off its wings. It will generally be difficult for the bee colony to leave.

2. Bee Recruiting Techniques

1. Go to places with nectar sources and look for bees when the weather clears up after rain. Once you find them, you can follow them. Generally, you can find a beehive after walking about 1,000 meters.

2. After finding the range of bees' activities, you can place an old beehive. This requires a small amount of honey and beeswax in the beehive. The success rate of using a new beehive to lure bees is relatively low. You can also dig holes in the mountains to lure bees. Generally, you can dig stone holes, but you can also dig mud holes, but you need to put bait.

3. When luring bees, you need to take protective measures to prevent being stung. At the same time, the bee-luring tools cannot have odors that bees hate. The location must be in line with the bees' location selection habits, and beeswax should be applied to the inner wall of the sealed box and near the nest entrance to enhance the attraction to scout bees.

4. Generally, bees can be lured during the natural swarming period and the peak migration period of bees. In the southern region, the natural swarming period is mostly concentrated in spring, while the peak migration period is mostly concentrated in summer and autumn.

What methods can be used to attract bee colonies? What issues should be paid attention to?

First we need to prepare the raw materials, mainly including syrup (you can use sugar and water in a ratio of 1:1, and add honey to the syrup), a deep plate, and old honeycombs; after preparing these tools, we can look for bees. The location for looking for wild bees should be away from the village as much as possible, choose the afternoon, look for places with dense sources, set up a bee-attracting location on the hillside, and the location should have a wide view.

After choosing a location, put the old honeycombs we prepared into a plate, then pour the syrup into the plate and put it in the chosen location. Because we chose a place where bees often come and go, and it is also a honey source, the bees will naturally come to eat the syrup we prepared, so after preparing these things, we don’t need to wait for the bees to come, we can go home directly. At around nine o’clock the next morning, we will bring some prepared syrup to the location we chose,

Then observe the changes in the sugar water prepared the day before to judge the status of the bees at the location we choose for luring. If the red bean sugar water disappears completely, it means that it has been eaten by bumblebees and there is only one bee on the bee; if the red bean sugar water we placed contains bee remains, it means that there are more bees in the area, and there are at least two bees. If there are not many bees at this time, it means that the location of the bees is far away from the luring point we set, but if there are many bees, it means that the location of the bees is very close to the luring point we set. At this time, we need to observe the direction where the bees fly back, and then find them along the direction the bees fly.

If you have not found any bees after traveling over 100 meters, and at the same time there are bees flying overhead, it means that the hive is 100 meters away. At this time, we can move the attraction location we set to the location, wait for the bees to come again to eat syrup, and repeat the above method. The method of attracting bees with honey saucers is more difficult to operate. In areas with abundant honey sources, the number of bees will be large, which is conducive to attracting bees to the honey saucers. If the number of local bees is small, it is not easy to attract bees, which will cause great problems for finding bees. Beekeepers need to move to areas with more bees to increase the chances of attracting bees to the saucer. When the honey saucer attracts bees, it is necessary to find the bees based on the experience of attracting bees with the honey saucer.

Before bee trapping, prepare 250 grams of sugar, 10 grams of natural honey, some straw and a beehive. Put the straw into the beehive, make syrup of sugar and honey and sprinkle it on the straw, then put the beehive in a place with water. After five or six days, the bees will fly into the beehive. It should be noted that bee trapping requires not only understanding of the habits of bees, but also choosing a suitable bee trapping location, and the use of auxiliary materials to increase the chance of successful bee trapping. Once bee trapping is successful, it means having your own bee colony. From the perspective of breeding, it also reduces the cost and risk of feeding.

You can choose syrup and honey water, and then put them in the beehive; you should pay attention to the time of bee luring, it is best to choose the late spring and early summer, the success rate of bee luring at this time is very high.

So you can use the smell attraction method or the burning beehive method; no matter what, you should pay attention to safety, be careful not to be stung by bees, and protect yourself.