CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What is the correct way to remove a hornet's nest at night?

1. What is the correct way to remove a hornet's nest at night?

When removing a hornet's nest at night, you must be fully prepared. Hornets are very aggressive, so when removing a hornet's nest at night, you must protect yourself as much as possible and prepare the relevant tools. When removing the pupae, cut them layer by layer from the bottom to the top. Be gentle and don't kill too many working bees. After cutting the pupae, the outer shell should be slowly restored to its original position to reduce the workload of the hornets in building the nest.

Cover with a plastic bag and take it out.

It is best to take it out at night, because wasps are invisible at night. Protect yourself with a hood first, and don't expose your skin. Use a sack to cover the wasp's nest and you can take it down.

2. How can you quickly take the bee pupae out of the nest?

You can eat it, and it's very nutritious! You can tap the wild beehive and the pupae will fall off. If they are too small, you can only dig them out slowly. I used to get stung by wasps when digging out wasp nests, haha

3. What are bee pupae?

Bee pupae are generally larvae and pupae of wild bees such as wasps, hornets, black bees, and bumblebees.

The best time to pick insects is from the larvae to the pupae stage.

4. Public video on hornet breeding technology: How to obtain bee pupae during the breeding process?

Bee pupae are rich in nutrition, crispy and tender, and are truly natural and delicious food. In recent years, in Jishou, Zhangjiajie and other places in western Hunan, the price of bee pupae is as high as 400 yuan per kilogram, becoming another local specialty for mountain people to give to relatives and friends.

Bee pupae are generally larvae and pupae of wild bees such as wasps, yellow jackets, black bees, and ground bees. These bees belong to the class Insecta, order Hymenoptera, and family Vespa. In the mountainous areas of western Hunan, 2 to 5 generations can develop in a year. The best time to pick them is when they are in the stage of larvae to pupae. Bee pupae are fresh products. In addition to being fried and eaten fresh, most of them are processed by drying methods for easy storage and packaging.

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After the hive is collected, it is wrapped with nylon gauze, and then the pupae are smoked in smoke for 2 to 5 minutes to drive away the individual stinging adult bees hiding in the hive. After the smoke, the gauze is untied to remove the dirt, residues, bark and other impurities on the surface of the hive. There are two main methods for artificial pupation: one is to remove the membrane of the pupa mouth with a small clamp and take out the pupae and larvae from the hive one by one; the other is to burn the hive mouth downward in an open flame for 1 to 3 minutes, so that the membrane of the pupa mouth is burned and the pupa head is exposed, and then the lid is gently shaken by hand to make the pupae and larvae fall out of the room. If some cannot be peeled off, they can be picked up with a small clamp. After the pupae are taken out, they are placed in a clean bamboo dustpan or basin.

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Clean the cooking pot, pour in an appropriate amount of water and a small amount of salt, the concentration of the salt water should be 2.5% to 3.3%, then boil the water, put the peeled bee pupae and larvae into the boiling water and blanch for 3 to 5 minutes. If there are many small pupae in the pot, you can do it in batches. After blanching, take out and drain, and spread thinly on a bamboo dustpan.

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After being blanched in boiling water, the bee pupae should be drained in time and spread thinly on a bamboo dustpan and placed in the sun to dry. In case of rainy days, they can be dried with fire. The water content of the pupae should be controlled below 14%. You can also fry them in vegetable oil for two or three minutes after drying them in the air (or in the oven), then remove them and drain them, so that the appearance of the bee pupae will be smoother and more shiny.

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After the bee pupae are dried, the powder and debris must be removed before packaging to make them complete and uniform in size. Use food bags that meet food hygiene standards and package them in 500g, 250g, and 125g sizes. The inner bag should be airtight, labeled with the processing date, and stored in a dry place or put on the market for sale.

The processing of bee pupae follows the processing techniques of picking → taking pupae → blanching → air-drying (baking) → packaging, which can ensure the processing quality. The method is simple and easy to operate, and the storage period can reach more than 6 months.

Wasps are a common bee species in life and are currently distributed in many places in the world. Wasps have strong effects, so some people now want to raise them. However, some people say that they cannot be raised. So what is the truth? Let's take a look!

Can wasps be bred artificially?

Hornets can be bred artificially, but they like to sting people. When breeding them, they must not be bred in places where there are many people. It would be better to choose a more remote location.

Wasp breeding technology

1. From September to October every year, you can collect wasps. Collect. At this time, wasps begin to leave the old nest and migrate to a suitable place to gather for wintering. It is most suitable to collect swarms of wasps at this time. Collect them at the wintering place of the swarms with insect nets at night and raise them in beehives. Put 300 to 500 bees in each beehive, and shade them with black cloth. Put them in a dry, ventilated and undisturbed room to reduce their activity and prompt them to enter hibernation in advance. In order to avoid the difficulty of finding the swarms after they leave the nest, you can also collect them on the original nest in mid-September and put them in a cage or box. Take advantage of the upward habit of the swarms of bees and put ripe apples, peaches and vegetables with more water at the bottom of the cage. This method is very good.

2. After the spring of the second year, when the temperature rises above 10℃, the overwintering bees begin to disperse and move around the cage walls. At this time, you should immediately feed them with apples, molasses, sugar-mixed buns and other feeds for artificial feeding. Feed them until mid-April. When the bees in the cage flap their wings and move around for a period of time, you can release the bees from the cage and return to nature to build nests. Artificial assisted nesting is to build a beehive under natural conditions. When the temperature in spring is constant at 13℃, the overwintering wasps begin to disperse and move around. You can move them into the greenhouse at night, gently open the cage door or box cover, and after a few days, the wasps will begin to fly in the greenhouse.

3. When the temperature is above 17℃, wasps will start to lay eggs. You should observe at any time. If you see bees flying and stopping on the roof and the surrounding gauze, you should hang the beehives in various places in the shed in time, open the cages halfway and tie them up. In the bee breeding shed, there are only artificial beehives, which are suitable places for nesting, sheltering from light, rain and wind. Bees will naturally fly into the cages. After a short period of adaptation, use your feet and mouthparts to clean the nest base on the top of the cage. At this time, molasses should be added to the feed tray to help the bees build a solid nest handle. Then build the first nest chamber. The nest chamber is made by wasps chewing rotten wood and paper and other paste-like fiber materials into the cage, sticking them to the nest handle, and then slightly repairing them. Therefore, put rotten wood in the beehive, and hang some waste paper strips on the gauze on the wall of the shed for the bees to use. You need to be careful when doing it.

5. When are calabash bees at their fullest?

When are wasp pupae fullest?

It's edible.

Wasp (gourd bee) pupae can be harvested from July to October of the lunar calendar, and are generally most abundant in September (lunar calendar).

If it is a farmed hornet's nest, we recommend opening the nest and taking a look. If it is full, then cut it. If it is a wild beehive, it depends on your luck. Some are full and some are completely empty.

There are also many species of wasps, and the time to remove the pupae will vary depending on the species. Wild wasps have more venom than domesticated bees, and they are ferocious, jumping on anything they encounter. Be careful when removing the pupae.

Which is more delicious, bee pupae or silkworm pupae?

Each has its own merits and is hard to tell which is better. There is no distinction between high and low, good and bad, only differences in efficacy and the groups of people they are suitable for.

Bee pupae are an ideal nutritious food with high protein, low fat, vitamins and trace elements. They also contain amino acids, germanium, selenium and calcium. They are rich in dozens of beneficial enzymes; they are a natural high-protein delicacy and a good fitness product. They contain substances such as anti-aging, anti-night blindness, anti-cardiovascular disease, free radical elimination and epithelial tissue protection, and have the effect of promoting development. Bee pupae can be used as food or as a nutritional health product.

Silkworm pupae contain protein and fatty oil, and the main components are unsaturated fatty acids, glycerol ester, a small amount of lecithin, catalpol, and fat-soluble vitamins.