CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How do wild bees catch the queen bee?

1. How do wild bees catch the queen bee?

Wild bees are the main source of bee species for many beekeepers, and the queen bee is the most indispensable in the entire bee colony. When capturing wild bee colonies, the queen bee may be injured or killed if you are not careful, which is extremely detrimental to the future management of the bee colony. Let’s take a look at how to catch the queen bee of wild bees!

1. Collecting bee colonies

There are generally two situations when collecting wild bee colonies. One is that the bee colony can be reached directly. In this case, it is very simple to collect the colony. The entire bee group can be taken away with bee collecting tools. The other is the bee colony in stone caves or tree holes. It is more troublesome to collect this kind of bee colony, but basically the method is to use the habit of bees to fear smoke to drive the bee colony out of the nest with smoke, and then place bee collecting tools at the entrance of the nest to collect the bees that have left the nest.

2. Find the Queen Bee

The characteristics of the queen bee are very different from those of other bees. The body length is about one-third longer than that of ordinary bees, especially the abdomen is relatively long, and the wings can only cover half of the abdomen. In fact, there is no need to find the queen bee when capturing clusters of wild bee colonies. You only need to know whether there is a queen bee in the colony. If there is a queen bee, there is a concave ventilation hole at the bottom of the bee colony, otherwise there is no such vent.

3. Control the Queen Bee

When capturing wild bees in clusters, there is no need to catch the queen bee. You just need to "pack" the entire cluster and take it home. When capturing wild bee colonies in tree holes or stone caves, you need to pay attention to the queen bee. When the queen bee crawls out of the hole, you need to control it with a queen cage. It is best not to grab the queen bee directly with your hands because the force is difficult to control. If you use less force, the queen bee may break free, and if you use too much force, you will often crush the queen bee to death.

4. Dealing with Lost King

It is common to lose the queen when collecting wild bees, but it does not mean that the bee colony cannot be raised after losing the queen. The best way is to add a new queen to the bee colony in time. If there is no queen, you can also add a mature queen cell. If there is no queen and queen cell, is there no way to save the bee colony? In fact, it is not. At this time, there is one last way, that is, to add some egg and larvae combs to the queenless colony for the colony to "urgently build queen cells".

Summary: There is no need to catch the queen bee when wild bees gather in groups on trees, but when collecting bee colonies in tree holes or stone caves, you should pay attention to whether the queen bee has left the nest. After the queen bee leaves the nest, you can control it with a queen cage. Never catch the queen bee with your bare hands, which may cause injury or death to the queen bee.

You can first prepare protective equipment, then build a beehive artificially at this place, and then wait for a day to catch the queen bee.

It can be done through induction, and attention should be paid to safety issues and safety precautions should be taken, so that it is easier to catch them.

When catching wild bees, you must find the beehive and then catch the queen bee. The queen bee is generally larger than ordinary bees.

2. How to find the queen bee in a wild bee colony?

The purpose of bees forming a group is to protect the queen bee. It is not only time-consuming and laborious to find the queen bee from the group, but there is no need to find the queen bee at all. You just need to determine whether there is a queen bee in the group.

The reason why it is difficult to find the queen bee in a bee colony is that there is a type of bee in the bee colony, that is, the drone. The drone is slightly smaller than the queen bee. It is difficult for non-professionals to recognize it at a glance without the comparison of the queen bee.

In wild bee colonies, the queen bee is slightly larger and longer, and is mainly responsible for laying eggs. However, since wild bees lay small amounts of eggs and the queen bee also participates in flight collection, it is difficult to find the queen bee.

Finding the queen bee in a distant swarm of bees requires a lot of experience. You have to be able to see it at a glance to catch this phoenix.

3. How to quickly find a hornet's nest in the wild! I would be very grateful if you can give me some advice. I can also give money as long as there is a good method.

The scientific name of hornet is Vespa, which is the natural enemy of bees.

Hornets are rampant in summer and autumn every year.

Professional method of finding hornet's nest for your reference.

Use this method to find wild bee nests (hornets, wasps, hornets, calabashes, and ground dragon bees). It is best to have two or more people, one to hang white tape on the wild bees, and the other to go and see where the wild beehive is.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t find it this time, there is still a chance, because the hornets will move food back and forth several times until all the baits are moved.

The way people in Yunnan deal with wild beehives without protective clothing is a bit dangerous. People without rich experience should not rashly pick wild beehives.

Wild bee resources should also be protected and utilized. Don't burn them at will! For example, if the wasp nest is not on the roadside and is not likely to sting passers-by, you can take out some of the pupae and put the wasp nest back. It doesn't have to be placed on the original branch, but somewhere not too high to make it easier to pick the wasp nest next time.

In spring, the queen bee begins to build a nest and lays the first batch of a dozen worker bees, and then the hive begins to grow exponentially. In autumn, the larger the hive is, the more worker bees there are, the stronger the wild bees are in protecting the nest, the larger their sphere of influence, and the more likely they are to attack people.

Therefore, there are quite few wild bees flying outside in early summer. In addition, worker bees that have just emerged from pupae do not sting people.

You can start to find wild beehives everywhere in early summer, although they are still very small at this time.

Once you find them, don't bother them. Just write down the address. When you want to harvest them, bring your bee-proof clothing and tools. As their hives grow, their self-identified sphere of influence expands from tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Outside their sphere of influence, wild bees generally don't sting people.

Prevention of giant earth wasps, hornets, golden-ringed hornets, tiger wasps, wasps, ground bees, ground bees and ox-headed wasps Because golden-ringed hornets are very sensitive to sound, wind direction, and vibration, so when you find several golden-ringed hornets flying or circling in the forest, it means the swarm of bees that was disturbed by you is patrolling, and they should be at the beehive. At this time, you should be able to hear intermittent "buzzing" sounds if you listen quietly, which is the sound of golden-ringed hornets entering and exiting the hole.

If you look in the direction of the sound, you can see the soil dug out by the golden-ringed hornet.

You must stay calm at this time. If the patrol bee is not patrolling in front of you, please squat slowly. If the patrol bee is very close to your body, please immediately turn into a wooden stick, do not exhale, and freeze! After the bee calms down, leave gently. Do not run quickly, do not shake branches, do not step on the dead branches and leaves on the ground, and do not make any sound. In a word, you must be "cautious and silent."

If a golden ring wasp rushes towards you, you have been discovered and will be stung in two seconds. What should you do? Roll! Roll down the mountain to a lower level. The farther the better, otherwise your life will be in danger.

Always beware of wild bees! Do not mess with wild beehives. The bees in a wild beehive will always attack one person, which is more likely to be fatal! ! Finding a wasp nest is hard but very interesting. In many cases, finding a wasp nest in the wild often requires multiple methods to achieve the goal.

The entire reproductive activities of wasps are centered around predation, water collection, and gnawing nest building materials. Therefore, we can adopt different methods to find them according to the characteristics of their reproductive activities.

A. Food guidance: From June to August, you can look for wasps eating on tree trunks that secrete sap and some flowers. When you find traces of wasps, you can sharpen the ends of 1-2 meter thin tree trunks and branches, and thread a grasshopper (cricket, dragonfly, chicken) on it to lure it to eat. After the wasp is lured to eat, watch it stationarily. The wasp will carry the food back and forth until the food is eaten up.

During this period, you can observe the direction of the wasp's return to the nest and calculate its round-trip time, from which you can preliminarily estimate the location of the wasp's nest. Usually, the time of each round trip and the straight-line distance of the nest are approximately: 2 minutes; 200-300 meters, 3 minutes; 400-500 meters,

4 minutes: 600-700 meters, 5 minutes: about 1000 meters.

If each round trip for feeding takes more than 10 minutes, it means the nest is more than 1.5 kilometers away (the farthest can be 5 kilometers), and it is particularly difficult to find. At this time, another point should be selected for induction.

To facilitate the observation of the location of the hornet's nest, you can gently tie a thin wire with white tape around the hornet's waist when the hornet is eating food. After biting the food, the hornet will fly directly back to the nest, and will not know that there is white tape hanging around its waist.

In this way, you can see a white dot flying towards the hornet's nest from a distance.

When inducing wasps to feed, if they refuse to eat one kind of food, you can switch to another kind of inducement. For example, in areas with better forests, large wasps will refuse to eat grasshoppers and only like to prey on other small wasps. At this time, you can use cicadas, dragonflies or other small wasps as bait. If the wasps are not interested in several kinds of food, it means that the nest is small or the wasps have been pupated by others not long ago. In this case, you don't need to waste time, you should look for other traces of wasps to induce food. B. Observe water collection: When the air is dry, wasps like to carry water back to the nest by the trickling stream under the sunlight. Each wasp generally has a fixed water collection point. Observe and remember the water collection point of each wasp and calculate the round-trip time, and you can also determine the approximate location of its nest.

C. Search for traces of materials: Wasps need to constantly replenish materials to build nests. They usually gnaw on the cork or dead wood of trees (pine, basket eucalyptus, sand pine, and horsetail) within 200-800 meters of the nest as nesting materials. Therefore, under normal circumstances, if you find a wasp gnawing on the bark, you will also find the nest in a relatively short time.

D. Block the bee's path: Wasps often cross mountains and ridges during the hunting process. You can choose the fork in the mountain top to see if there are any wasps flying by. The method to determine the direction of their nests is: the wasps returning to the nest fly slowly and in a straight route, and sometimes you can see wasps holding food.

Generally speaking, the higher the hornet flies when returning to the nest, the closer it is to the nest, and vice versa.

The hornets leaving the nest fly very fast, in an "S"-shaped trajectory, and no food is seen in their mouths.

E. Use sunlight to search quickly: Two hours after sunrise and three hours before sunset, there will be a shaded side between the hills and the stream. When you look at the shaded side facing the sun, you can distinguish flies and mosquitoes within tens of meters, and flying hornets within 100 meters.

It is especially clear when the sky clears after rain.

The disadvantage of this method is that it is limited by time and terrain, but the search area is large and the speed is fast, especially when the approximate location of the hornet's nest is known, it can be found within minutes.

F: Just see the hornet's nest from a distance, and don't get too close to it. The hornets near the hornet's nest are very aggressive. If you get close to them without protection, you are likely to be attacked by the swarm, which may result in minor injuries or even death.

Postscript: Although wasps are natural enemies of honey bees, they are also beneficial insects that specialize in eating pests of fruit trees and crops. They are friends of humans. If wasps are not seriously harmful to honey bees, please do not kill them immediately! Although wasps are highly poisonous, they are a treasure.

Wasp wine can cure rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, numbness of the limbs, etc.; wasp pupae can be fried or soaked in wine; wasp nests can be used as medicine to treat diseases.

My method is similar to the above, but I use honey instead of insects. I apply the honey on cotton. Then follow the above method.