CATDOLL : CATDOLL: The fastest way to attract bees during winter at home?

1. What is the fastest way to attract bees at home in winter?

1. Honey smell: Apply some honey to an old beehive and place it where wild bees often move. Observe every evening to see if there are any bees entering. If so, move the beehive away. The moving distance must be more than three kilometers, otherwise the bees will return.

2. Beehive fragments: Light some of the beehive fragments near the beehive in the evening. Then the wild bees will come to the beehive after smelling the fragrance. If the beehive also has the smell of bees living there, they will enter the beehive.

3. Use scout bees: Use honey to lure scout bees into the beehive, do not close the nest door, let them leave on their own, after repeating several times, the scout bees will bring a large number of bee colonies. After the bee colony arrives, find the queen bee and control her to prevent her from flying away.

2. Can rock sugar attract bees?

Rock sugar is difficult to make, but rock sugar water can definitely attract bees. If you don't believe it, you can try it. Bees are very sensitive to sweetness, which is their instinct. They will fly to where there is sweetness. The sweetness of rock sugar water must attract bees. This is their food, and they will eat it as long as there is a desire. When bees cannot collect honey in winter, beekeepers will feed them sugar water to prevent them from starving to death in winter.

3. What is the formula for bee-attracting water in all seasons?

1. Keep the queen bee that needs to be treated

In the breeding process, the eliminated queen bee should not be discarded at will, but must be kept, dried and ground into powder. Why do we do this? The reason is that the queen bee itself has a certain smell, which is very attractive to bees, so we should pay attention to preserving the eliminated queen bee and use it for other purposes.

2. Use real pure honey

When preparing bee-attracting water, you must use truly pure honey, because pure honey has a relatively strong odor. Then add the ground queen bee powder and mix them together. Then add a little water. The purpose of adding water is to dilute it so that it can pass through the water spray hole of the spray bottle. As for the amount of water to add, just make sure that the spray bottle can spray out water mist normally. Note: do not add too much water to make the bee-attracting water too dilute.

3. Add vitamin C

Because the smell of vitamin C is relatively strong, the stronger the smell, the easier it is for bees to find and even be attracted to collect bee water, which helps to attract bees. After preparing the bee water, bees will be attracted by the smell and suck the bee water soon. When the bees have sucked enough bee water, they will start to fly towards the hive. At this time, we should pay attention to see where the bees are flying, and then follow the direction of the bees' flight to find their hive.

3. Conditions for attracting bees

1. Are there abundant bee resources nearby?

Whether it is purchased bee-attracting water or bee-attracting water made from common materials in life, the first condition that must be met is that there must be wild bees distributed in the local area. Without wild bees, no method will work. Then it depends on whether the wild bee resources are abundant. If there are too few, the trapping effect may not be so obvious.

2. Are the beehive sanitary conditions in place?

Bees do not like environments with unusual irritating odors, and the same is true for beehives. If it is a new beehive, it needs to be treated to remove the odor of the beehive separately. There are many specific treatment methods, such as: "How to deal with the odor of a new beehive?" Of course, the simplest method is to expose it to the sun and rain for a period of time, which can basically remove most of the odors. The premise is that as long as the beehive is free of odor, the captured bees or the bees in the swarm will not leave the hive without reason.

3. Is the location of bee trapping appropriate?

The choice of location for luring bees is also very important. As long as there are wild bees, we can choose the place where the bees like to build nests as the best place to lure the bees. The beehive cannot be too hidden, and it must be easy for the bees to find it. The location must also consider whether it is sheltered from the wind and whether it is sunny. The best place is halfway up the mountain, which is the easiest to lure bees. Even if you don't put any bee-luring water or anything, the bees will come because there are nectar sources all around.

4. Is the bee attractant material suitable?

If conditions do not permit, you can use local materials, cheap and reliable materials, such as beeswax. This trapping method is simple, crude and easy to use. The specific method is: burn some beeswax inside the beehive to smoke the beehive, then boil the old honeycomb and place it at the entrance of the nest, and pay attention to check it regularly.

Summary: There are many ways to attract bees, but most of them require beekeepers to discover and practice them themselves. Muzi Beekeeping believes that truth often comes out of practice, and summarizing a set of methods of your own in practice is the best way to keep bees.

4. How to use brown sugar to lure bees?

Feeding

1. Supplementary feeding: artificial feeding when nectar sources are scarce. The methods are as follows: ① Supplementary feeding with honey. Honey can be diluted with 20% warm water (crystallized honey needs to be boiled with a little water). The diluted honey can be fed to the bees by gavage or poured into a frame feeder. ② Supplementary feeding with syrup. Syrup is made by adding 50% white sugar to water, which is heated and fully dissolved and then cooled to lukewarm. It is best to add 0.1% citric acid to the syrup to facilitate digestion and absorption. Brown sugar should not be used at this time.

2. Reward feeding: artificial feeding during the bee colony breeding period and bee production period. Generally, a small amount of 60% nectar or 50% syrup is given every other day in early spring, and then once a day as consumption increases. The time starts from 40 days before the nectar flow period until there is a large amount of honey and pollen from the outside world. Each frame of bees can be rewarded with 50-100 grams of syrup each time.

3. Feeding pollen: The purpose is to supplement protein feed. In the late winter and early spring, the pollen saved in the previous autumn can be supplemented, and soybean powder can also be used instead. The feeding method is as follows:

(1) Liquid feeding: Add 10 times the amount of syrup to the pollen, boil it, wait for it to cool, and then put it in a feeding container for feeding.

(2) Cake feeding. Add an equal amount of honey or syrup to pollen or pollen substitute, mix thoroughly, and make into cakes. Wrap them with plastic paper, open at both ends, and place them on the frame beam for bees to feed. This method is often used during cold snaps.

4. Feed water and salts: ① Water. Generally, each bee colony needs 200-300 ml of water per day. Put water in the feeder or put a wet towel on the gauze cover for the bees to collect water. ② Salts. Add 1% salt to the syrup.

5. What is the recipe for Qili Bee Attractant Bee Water?

Tools/Raw Materials

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500g sugar, 250g honey, 50g bay leaves, 50g cinnamon, 3 bowls of water

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Step-by-step reading

The materials for making bee-attracting water are common materials that every household has, such as sugar, honey, cinnamon, and bay leaves.

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Add 50 grams each of cinnamon and bay leaves, half a pound of honey, and three bowls of water, put them in a pot and cook. Cinnamon and bay leaves have a strong fragrance, which will penetrate into the soup through cooking.

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When only two bowls of water are left, turn off the heat, filter out the soup, and add sugar. The bee-attracting water is now ready. The bee-attracting water should be used on the same day it is prepared and should be discarded the next day.

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There is something to be careful about when using bee-attracting water, which is that it must be used in seasons when there is no nectar source. Otherwise, if it is the blooming season and there are nectar sources everywhere, the bees will not choose the bee-attracting water.

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Second, do not use bee water near bee farms, otherwise you will just be feeding other people's bees.

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Before placing bee-attracting water, you should first inspect the surrounding environment and find places where wild bees are present, then spray some bee-attracting water. The spraying area should be slightly higher to avoid ants. When wild bees smell the bee-attracting water and eat some, they will be deeply impressed and will soon bring a large group of wild bees to come.