CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Do bees mate or separate first?

1. Do bees mate or separate first?

Bees can be divided when they have more than six combs (but if you want to produce honey, it is best to have ten combs). Also, you should raise queens now, and it is good enough that the queens can produce before the next big honey flow! There are not many things to pay attention to. First, you must keep an eye on the new queens and don't let them be surrounded after mating. After swarming, it is best not to divide them equally. It is best to wait until the new queens start to produce and then slowly replenish them. This is the best way.

2. When replacing a new queen bee in beekeeping, how to screen out the queen bee that has not successfully mated?

In the process of raising bee colonies, as beekeepers improve their beekeeping skills, many beekeepers will try artificial queen breeding by themselves, and begin to combine the nectar flow period, as well as the external temperature and weather. In the process of raising bee colonies on a large scale, they replace the queen bee once or twice a year to ensure the reproductive capacity of the colony. Therefore, every time the queen bee is artificially bred, one of the important steps is to introduce a queen bee cell into the colony. After the mating period of the new queen bee, not all virgin queen bees can mate successfully. At the same time, at the end of the mating period, the virgin queen bee will have a swollen abdomen, and her appearance will be no different from that of a new queen bee.

What kind of drones will be hatched from the eggs laid by a virgin queen bee? Here is an introduction. First, a virgin queen bee will lay eggs in the worker bee cells. Beekeepers will find these phenomena when checking the bee colony. The large larvae in the worker bee cells on the brood comb are larger. If bee friends cannot distinguish, they can compare the uncapped brood combs where the normal queen bee lays eggs with a brood comb, and they will find the difference. The smaller "drones" raised by such honeycomb combs are of no use to the bee colony. Therefore, after the beekeeper finds that the brood combs in the bee colony have such a situation after replacing the new queen bee, he can replace the queen bee and at the same time, cut off the capped cell covers on the hive, shake off the larvae on the honeycomb combs, and put them into the normal bee colony to clean the honeycomb combs. This method of operation allows this honeycomb comb to continue to be used.

The beekeeper does a good job of inspection. During the process of replacing the new queen bee in the bee colony, the operating steps of screening and checking the virgin queen bee that has not successfully mated are adopted. The mating period of the virgin queen bee is about 7 to 13 days. Regardless of the external weather and temperature, as well as the size of the bee colony, the entire apiary is screened and checked 2 to 5 times, which can basically confirm the time when the new queen bee mates successfully. When the virgin queen bee exceeds the mating period, it is necessary to check the virgin queen bee that has not successfully mated, and replace the bee colony with other stored old queen bees, or merge the weak colonies to prevent the virgin queen bee from laying eggs. After this operation, the beekeeper can successfully avoid the phenomenon of virgin queen bee laying eggs in the process of replacing the new queen bee for the bee colony.

3. May I ask the beekeepers, can a virgin queen bee mate in the hive?

Artificial mating is possible. Put a virgin queen and a male bee in a beehive and seal the beehive so that they cannot come out.

The queen bee will not come out. If she does, she will take the colony away with her! This shows that they must be mating in the hive.

No, learn the basic knowledge of beekeeping. Beekeeping is a technical job, hard and joyful.

They cannot mate in the box, and they mate with about ten drones in the air.

Are there a lot of bees? Also, the success rate will be higher if it doesn't rain during the mating days.