CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to deal with ants in the beehive? Will the queen bee escape if there are ants in the beehive?

1. How to deal with ants in the beehive? Will the queen bee run out if there are ants in the beehive?

1. Replace beehives: Wash the beehives, dry them and reuse them. 2. Spray drugs: Spray drugs that can kill ants. When ants smell the smell of drugs, they will stay away from the beehives, but be careful not to use too much. 3. Spread lime: Spread lime around the beehives to block the ants' routes. 4. Repair the gutter: Dig a small ditch around the beehive, and use cement to smooth the ditch, then pour water in the ditch to prevent ants from entering the hive.

1. How to deal with ants in the beehive

1. Replace the beehive

Wash the beehive with ants with clean water, then dry it before reusing it.

2. Spraying drugs

Spray medicine that can kill ants but will not harm bees (can be sprayed directly on the bottom of the hive). When the ants smell the medicine, they will stay away from the beehive, but be careful not to use too much to avoid affecting the bee colony.

3. Sprinkle lime

Sprinkle lime around the beehive to block the ants' route into the hive.

4. Repair the sink

Dig a small trench around the beehive and smooth it with cement (plastic sheeting can also be used), then pour clean water into the trench to prevent ants from entering the beehive.

5. Use lemon for isolation

Squeeze the juice from a fresh lemon, then draw a circle with the beehive as the center. This can also effectively prevent ants from entering the beehive, but be aware that the lemon juice is effective for a short time and needs to be replaced in time.

6. Use diesel for isolation

Nail iron nails at the four corners of the beehive, making the two back corners slightly higher and the nest entrance slightly lower. Then fill a bottle with an appropriate amount of diesel and place it near the nest entrance to prevent ants from entering the beehive.

2. Will the queen bee run out if there are ants in the beehive?

1. When ants appear in the beehive, the queen bee generally will not run away, but other bees may fly away. Therefore, during the beekeeping process, it is necessary to do a good job of preventing and controlling ants to prevent them from entering the beehive.

2. When ants appear in the beehive, it is generally difficult to completely eliminate them. Therefore, when cleaning, you should track individual ants (or ants that form a route) to find their nests, then pour a basin of boiling water (you can also spray pesticides and then cover the soil) to completely kill all the ants.

2. What are the harms that ants cause to beehives and how to prevent and control them?

Ants belong to the order Hymenoptera and the family Formicidae. They are widely distributed in tropical and warmer regions, especially in forests and hot and humid areas. Ants invade beehives in large numbers, harming the wooden parts of beehives and causing damage to the hives; they steal honey and attack bees, which can destroy the bee colonies when the damage is serious. There are many types of ants. The main ones that harm bees are big black ants, small black ants, big yellow ants and small yellow ants. Other countries also have Argentine ants, red wood ants, carpenter ants, silk ants, fire ants, etc.

When preventing and controlling damage caused by ants, the bee farm should be kept clean at all times, and ant nests should be destroyed in time when found. In areas where there are many ants and the damage is serious, the beehives should be tightly sealed and the seams of the beehives should be blocked at all times. When ants harm the bee colony, the beehives can be raised and quicklime can be spread around them. If ants have entered the beehive, salt can be spread in the four corners of the beehive to drive away the ants.

3. How to avoid ants and cockroaches in beehives?

‍‍Wu guessed that it is relatively simple to prevent ants from running into the beehive. First, we need a beehive stand with four chambers and feet (you can manually make one with square strips), and then put a bowl of water (disposable bowls are fine) under each of the four stand feet, and then put the beehive on the stand to prevent ants from running into the beehive. How to prevent cockroaches: First of all, we must know that cockroaches run into the beehive to find food and a place to live. After I knew these two points, I first cut off the food for the cockroaches. We have to clean up the wax residue at the bottom of the beehive, which is not conducive to the reproduction of nest insects. Only by cleaning the bottom of the beehive frequently, it is not easy for cockroaches to come in to find food. After we have solved the problem of cleaning the bottom of the beehive, the next step is to ensure the integrity of the beehive. We must fill the broken and gapped places of the beehive (you can use yellow mud or cement slurry). After there are no gaps in the beehive, it is not easy for cockroaches to run into the beehive. ‍‍

‍‍Raise the beehive a little higher, and spread a layer of plant ash or lime powder outside the bottom of the box to prevent ants and cockroaches from entering. You can also sprinkle a circle of insecticide powder, which many insects are afraid of. If you find traces of ants and find the nests of ants and cockroaches, use insecticide to block the hole, or scald it with boiling water, pour diesel, and destroy the insect hole, so that it will no longer harm the bee colony. It is not easy for cockroaches to find their nests. Cockroaches that enter the beehive can be killed with medicine. I heard that there is a kind of medicine-cockroach glue bait, which is specially used to deal with cockroaches in the beehive. Sprinkle the pills to kill only cockroaches without hurting bees. One use of the medicine can last for one or two months. But I have never used this medicine, and I don’t know where to buy it. There are many insects in the beehive, which is caused by the weak bee colony. Pay attention to the proportion of the bees and spleens, and raise a strong bee colony, so there will be no trouble with insect pests. ‍‍

‍‍Ant prevention for beehives. Generally, beekeepers use brackets to set up beehives, which can prevent 90% of ants. But never use insecticide, which will poison the bees in the room. Also, do not use it on empty beehives. The effect is long-lasting. Once I used it to prevent termites on an empty beehive. Half a year later, I used it to raise bees. All of them died overnight, not even one was left. The best solution is to find the ant nest and then use the medicine. Cockroaches are annoying. Honey bees can't do anything about them. They live in their homes like their own. They like to steal honey and pollen the most. I have also seen them steal bee eggs and poop everywhere in the beehive. At this time, manual treatment is required. I usually change the box, otherwise it will be difficult to catch it once it leaks. This way, it can be handled quickly. The best way to prevent cockroaches is to set up defenses at the nest door. Close the nest door a little, or block it with a fence, or use a steel needle to block the nest door. ‍‍

Since bees and cockroaches are both insects, if we use medicine, the medicine that can kill cockroaches can also kill bees, so we cannot use medicine to remove them. Generally, we can put garlic paste at the bottom of the beehive to drive away a small number of cockroaches. If the cockroaches in the beehive have reproduced in large numbers and are fierce, then we need to use the method of changing the beehive to remove them. When changing the beehive, the previous beehive is subjected to high temperature to kill cockroach eggs, and then washed and kept for later use.

How to avoid ants and cockroaches in beehives? There are two measures that beekeepers usually take. One is to raise the bottom of the box, and the other is to use motor oil or butter around the box. Generally, the second method is used more by people. The first method is to use garlic paste, which can be placed on the inside of the box to avoid cockroaches. The beehive can be placed closer to the public road, where there are many pedestrians and vehicles passing by, but it cannot be too close to the road. The first method can prevent cockroaches from appearing by pedestrians and vehicles, and the second method makes it much easier to sell honey.