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What are the methods and precautions for artificial queen breeding of bees?

The queen bee is the only and most indispensable breeder in a bee colony. In fact, many characteristics of the bee colony are determined by the queen bee. Therefore, the benefits of beekeeping depend to a large extent on the quality of the queen bee. Artificial queen breeding is the only way to obtain high-quality queen bee. Let’s take a look at the methods and precautions of artificial queen breeding of bees!

1. Best time

The time for artificial queen rearing of bees is determined by the following three factors. First, the climate, especially the temperature, must be suitable for the survival of bees. Second, there must be abundant and easily collected nectar sources in the outside world when rearing the queen. Third, there must be enough drones to mate with the new queen when she comes out of the hive. Therefore, spring and autumn, when there is abundant nectar sources and a suitable climate, are suitable for queen rearing, while hot summer and cold winter are not suitable for or cannot be used for queen rearing.

2. Select the mother group

The mother colony refers to the bee colony that provides small larvae during artificial queen rearing. In fact, the quality of queen bees during artificial queen rearing depends to a large extent on the genetic characteristics of the mother colony. For example, when the swarming ability of the mother colony is weak, the swarming ability of the new queen is likely to be weak as well. Therefore, it is necessary to select a bee colony with weak swarming ability, strong collecting ability and the ability to maintain a strong colony as the mother colony, while a bee colony with strong swarming ability, weak collecting ability or the inability to maintain a strong colony cannot be used as the mother colony.

3. Making the King Platform

The main tools for making an artificial queen cell are queen breeding sticks and beeswax. The specific method is to heat the beeswax and melt it into a liquid. Then insert the queen breeding stick soaked in water straight into the beeswax. After a few seconds, take it out and wait for the beeswax to solidify. Then insert it into the beeswax again, but the depth of the second time should be slightly shallower than the previous time. After repeating this 4 to 5 times, it will be an artificial queen cell. In addition, the size of the queen breeding stick varies depending on the species of bee.

4. Artificial transfer of worms

After the artificial queen cell is made, it cannot be used directly to transfer larvae. At this time, the artificial queen cell must be placed in the queen breeding colony and improved by worker bees. Then the larvae are selected from the mother colony with a transfer needle and transferred to the artificial queen cell. Generally, the younger the larvae, the better the quality of the queen. However, the smaller the larvae, the greater the difficulty of transferring. Therefore, after considering the quality of the queen and the difficulty of transferring, it is generally recommended to transfer larvae that are 1 to 2 days old.

5. Move the queen cell

The bee colony responsible for caring for the queen cells in artificial queen rearing is called the queen rearing colony. The basic requirements for a queen rearing colony are that it is disease-free and has a large number of feeding bees. After the artificial queen transfer is completed, the queen cells should be moved to the queen rearing colony in time. The next day, the queen rearing colony should carefully check its acceptance of the artificial queen cells. If the queen rearing colony does not accept the artificial queen cells, a second queen transfer should be carried out. After that, reward feeding should be carried out once a day to encourage the worker bees to feed the artificially transferred queen cells.

6. Notes

1. When artificially rearing queen bees, you must never move larvae that are more than three days old. The reason is that worker bee larvae can no longer develop into queen bees after they are more than three days old, and even if they can develop into queen bees, they are all inferior queen bees.

2. When transferring larvae, be sure to dip some royal jelly into the artificial queen cell, otherwise the transferred larvae may starve to death. In addition, when using the larvae transferring needle, be careful to avoid injuring the larvae.

3. The quality of the queen bee depends not only on its own genetic characteristics, but also to a large extent on the drones that mate with it. Therefore, when artificially breeding queens, drones with excellent genetic characteristics should be selected.

What are the methods and precautions for artificial queen rearing of bees? The climate, especially the temperature, must be suitable for the survival of bees. Artificial queen rearing should be started when there is sufficient honey and pollen, the bee colony is strong, the climate is warm and stable, and a large number of drones appear.

When artificially raising queen bees, pay attention to the climate, especially the temperature, which must be suitable for the survival of the bees. There must be abundant and easily collected nectar sources in the outside world. When the new queen bee leaves the cell, there must be enough drones to mate with it.

Artificial breeding is to extract the queen bee's genetic tissue and inject it into the bee's body, so that it has the queen bee's genetic quality and can become a queen bee.

What is the queen bee among bees?

Question 1: How is the queen bee produced in honey bees? I also think so: the queen bee is the only female bee in the bee colony with fully developed reproductive organs. The queen bee's body is 1/4 (Chinese honey bee) to 1 time (Italian honey bee) longer than that of the worker bee. The abdomen is long and conical, accounting for about 3/4 of the body length, and the wings are short, covering only half of the abdomen. The stinger is not as long as that of the worker bee, but only slightly barbed, and is only used when fighting with competing queen bees. The egg-laying queen bee of the Chinese honey bee (Chinese honey bee) is 18 to 22 mm long and weighs about 250 mg. The newly born queen bee of the Italian honey bee (Italian honey bee) weighs 170 to 240 mg, and the egg-laying queen bee is 20 to 25 mm long and weighs 250 to 300 mg. The function of the queen bee is to lay eggs. A good queen bee can lay about 1,500 eggs per day and night during the egg-laying period. The quality of the queen bee and its egg-laying ability play a decisive role in the strength of the bee colony and its genetic traits. In production, only by breeding excellent and strong queen bees can the bee colony maintain a strong colony strength and high production performance.

A bee colony usually has only one queen bee. If a capped queen cell appears in the colony, the bees will split into two colonies (natural division). If two queen bees appear, they will fight each other until only one is left. However, in natural alternation, the old queen bee may live in the same nest with the new queen bee for a period of time.

There must be a queen bee in a bee colony. Guard bees know whether there is a queen bee in the colony by transmitting the queen bee substance secreted by the queen bee in the hive. If the queen bee is not there, the working order in the colony will be seriously affected after dozens of minutes, and the worker bees will become anxious and uneasy. At this time, as long as a queen bee is lured into the colony that has lost its queen or a mature queen cell is added, the restless condition of the colony will soon change and normal activities will be resumed.

The queen bee is especially cared for by worker bees throughout her life, especially during the egg-laying period. Usually, she is surrounded by guard bees composed of young worker bees. The guard worker bees constantly touch the queen bee with their antennae, lick her, and remove her excrement. Worker bees feed the queen bee with royal jelly. Without worker bees, the queen bee's egg-laying function cannot be realized. After the queen bee stops laying eggs, the worker bees take worse care of her. Sometimes, in order to force the queen bee to stop laying eggs (such as when the bee colony is preparing to split), the worker bees will no longer feed the queen bee with royal jelly. At this time, the queen bee has to go to the honey storage cell to get honey by herself. The queen bee has lost the ability to raise bees (including eggs, larvae and pupae), so the worker bees are responsible for raising bees.

Virgin queen bees usually do not lay eggs. If a virgin queen over 20 days old has not mated, she will lay unfertilized eggs. Therefore, virgin queens that have not mated over the expiration date should be eliminated.

The life span of a successfully mated queen bee is 3 to 5 years, and the longest can reach 8 to 9 years. Usually, the egg-laying ability of a queen bee over 2 years old will gradually decline. Queen bees over 2 years old are not used in production, and those that are aging, injured, or have reduced egg-laying capacity are replaced at any time.

Question 2: What are the "queen bee" and "worker bee" among bees? The "queen bee" and "worker bee" among bees both refer to female bees!

There are three types of bees in a bee colony: queen bee, worker bees and drones, among which queen bee and worker bees are both female bees.

Question 3: Why do bees need to keep their queen bees? 100 points Bees are insects that live in groups. They have a clear division of labor and each performs its own duties. There are basically three types of members in a bee colony: one is the worker bees that perform productive labor, specializing in building nests, collecting food, and taking care of the queen bee. They are female but cannot reproduce, and are the largest in number; one is the male bees, which are fewer in number, with about dozens to hundreds in a group, and are mainly for mating with the queen bee; the other is the female, which is the queen bee, which is the smallest in number, with only one in a group. Its main function is to lay eggs, produce offspring, and maintain group life.

At the beginning, the queen bee will come out alone to build a small nest and lay eggs in the nest to raise several small bees. In this stage, both nest building and offspring are completed independently by the queen bee. Although the young bees raised by the queen bee are all female bees, the queen bee can secrete a special substance to inhibit the development of their female functions, turning them into worker bees that cannot reproduce. When the first generation of small bees grow up, they will take over all the work of expanding the hive and raising young bees. The five bees are specialized in laying eggs. The five bees have a strong egg-laying ability. In the season with abundant nectar sources, a queen bee can lay more than 1,000 eggs a day. Over time, the hive becomes larger and larger, and there are more and more worker bees.

However, in some bee species, there are indeed several queen bees in one nest at the same time, but these queen bees form a big family around the "queen". Just like there is only one ancestor in a family. There is no confusion between bee families, because the special substances secreted by the queen bee can distinguish different families.

Question 4: How is the queen bee produced in a bee colony? A small bee colony can have tens of thousands of members. Except for a few drones, there is only one mature female bee, and the rest are all short-lived and infertile worker bees. The female bee can live up to 3-5 years, has a strong body, and has amazing fertility. She constantly adds to the bee colony, and therefore enjoys supreme treatment. She is the queen bee. Every spring is the prosperous period of the development of the bee colony. At this time, the worker bees build the royal cell bases for cultivating new queen bees in the lower part of the hive. After the old queen bee lays eggs in the royal cell, batches of worker bees divide the work and each closely protects the royal cell. As soon as these eggs hatch into larvae, the worker bees take turns to feed them nutritious royal jelly. Because they eat royal jelly, the larvae of the growing queen bee develop very quickly. On the fifth day, they are fully mature. Compared with those worker bees, they are strongmen. When these future queen bees grow up, they will fly out of the hive. Their first task is to find the remaining queen cells, and never allow other queens to be born in other queen cells to compete for the throne. At this time, if the colony guarding the queen cell is large enough, it will prevent the queen bee that comes out of the cell first from approaching until the queen bee of the queen cell it is guarding is born. Once the queen bees of two queen cells come out of the cell at the same time, a life-and-death contest for the throne will inevitably occur, and the result will inevitably be that the stronger party kills the opponent. When the new queen bee comes out of the cell, it usually has to make one or two nest recognition flights to familiarize itself with the environment. After five or six days, it chooses a sunny day to fly out of the nest for mating. During the mating flight, the new queen bee usually mates with five or six drones to accumulate more sperm for lifelong egg-laying. After the old queen bee that laid eggs at that time finished laying eggs, she flew away from the hive with a large number of worker bees and chose a new nest to start a new life. After the mating flight, the abdomen of the new queen bee gradually becomes larger and longer, and begins to lay eggs, becoming a true queen bee. It can be said that the departure of the old queen bee means the birth of a new queen bee, and the birth of a new queen bee marks the birth of a new bee colony. This is the unique group reproduction of bees.

Question 5: What are the differences between queen bees? The queen bee is a female bee with reproductive capacity, responsible for laying eggs and reproducing offspring.

Bees live in groups. There are three types of bees in a bee colony: queen bee, worker bees and drones. There is one queen bee (also called queen bee) (some exceptions have two queen bees), 10,000 to 150,000 worker bees, and 500 to 1,500 drones. Bees work non-stop to obtain food, collecting honey during the day and making honey at night. At the same time, they complete the pollination task for fruit trees and are an important medium for pollination of crops.

Female bees and male bees live in the same nest, but they differ in morphology, physiology and division of labor. Females are larger and specialize in laying eggs, while males are smaller and specialize in mating, and die after mating. Worker bees are smaller and are female bees with underdeveloped genitals. They specialize in building nests, collecting food, feeding larvae, cleaning nests and regulating nest humidity. Both Italian bees and Chinese bees are social species. In addition, there are Bombus, Tropical Stingless Bees, and Wheat Bees.

In the bee society, they still live a matriarchal life. Among the members of their group family, there is a queen bee (queen bee), which is a female bee with reproductive ability, responsible for laying eggs and reproducing offspring, and "ruling" this large family. Although the queen bee has mated, not all the eggs she lays are fertilized. According to the needs of the group family, it can lay fertilized eggs, which the worker bees feed with pollen, and the bees develop into female bees (worker bees without reproductive ability) after 21 days; it can also lay unfertilized eggs, which develop into drones after 24 days. When the members of this group family multiply too much and cause crowding, it is necessary to divide the group. The process of grouping is as follows: the worker bees make special honeycombs (king cells), and the queen bee lays fertilized eggs in the king cells; after the small larvae are hatched, the worker bees give them special treatment and feed them with the highly nutritious royal jelly produced in their bodies. After 16 days, when the small larvae develop into adults, they become new queen bees with reproductive ability, and the old queen bee leads a part of the worker bees to fly away to form a new group. The Chinese honey bee, Apis cerana Fabr., and the Italian honey bee, A. mellifera L., are both commonly raised beneficial insects. During the breeding process, new queen bees must be artificially divided into groups after they are born. Otherwise, a queen bee will lead a group of worker bees to leave the hive and fly away, resulting in a loss of productivity of the bee colony.

Question 6: How do bees become queen bees? Haha, I don’t know where the above explanations came from. They are irrelevant!

First of all, the question you asked is not very detailed^_^

Bees have three social roles: the queen bee, worker bees, and drones. It should be noted that the queen bee is not formed, but is born as such!

The queen bee is the only female bee in the bee colony with fully developed female reproductive organs. It develops from the fertilized eggs in the queen cell. Its body is 1/4-1/3 longer than that of the worker bee. The abdomen accounts for about 3/4 of the body length, and the wings are short, covering only half of the abdomen. The egg-laying queen bee of the Chinese bee is 18-22mm long and weighs about 250mg. The egg-laying queen bee of the Italian bee is 20-25mm long and weighs 300mg.

A bee colony usually has only one queen bee. If a new queen bee appears in the colony, the colony will split (group) and fight until only one is left. However, during natural mating, the old queen bee may live with the new queen bee for a period of time.

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Worker bees are female individuals developed from fertilized eggs in worker beehives, but their reproductive organs are not fully developed. Worker bees are smaller than queen bees, so they play the role of coolies! What a fate!

The male bee is haploid, and its only duty in the hive is to mate with the virgin queen!

(Duck0_0)

Question 7: How to cultivate a new queen bee in a hive of bees. The experience of queen breeding in beekeeping management is explained as follows.

First, we should choose bee species suitable for the local area to breed queens. We can introduce species from regular bee breeding farms, or we can select and transfer the best bee species from our farms for breeding. It is best to introduce queen bees from other places every two years to avoid the degradation of species.

Second, having a good queen does not necessarily mean that a good queen can be bred. There must also be a good or auxiliary nectar and pollen source, which is another major condition for breeding a good queen. If the external nectar and pollen conditions are poor, the queen cannot be bred. When the nectar and pollen source conditions are average, reward feeding should be carried out every evening.

The above two conditions are not enough. It is also necessary to use large eggs to breed queens. Queens bred from large eggs are born with large body weight and good development. How to get large eggs? First, the queens should be imprisoned in bamboo wire cages for 5 days to 10 days. 4 to 5 days before the transfer of insects, the queens are released to start laying eggs. The eggs laid within 4 days after the queen is released are relatively large in size and weight, and gradually become smaller as the amount of eggs laid increases.

4. Choose a strong colony to raise queens. Strong colonies have better conditions in all aspects. It is best to raise queens in a colony with more than 12 frames of bees and sufficient honey and pollen in the nest. Confine the original queen in the nest box, select 1 to 2 small larval combs, first place the queen raising frame with the queen cell between the two larval combs and clean them for 4 to 6 hours, take out and transfer in 2-day-old small larvae to encourage them to accept, as long as they can accept a few. Take it out after 24 hours, remove the larvae, use a brush to brush each royal jelly that needs to be transferred, and then transfer in suitable small larvae within 12 hours. If the virgin queen comes out of the cell on the 11th day after the transfer, the quality will not be very good. Only the one that comes out of the cell in the afternoon or at night on the 12th day is the best virgin queen.

5. Organize a mating group. It is better to have 1 to 2 frames of bees with sufficient honey and pollen. A large group will waste the feeding power of worker bees, which is not good for the development and production of the whole farm. One day before the virgin queen leaves the cell, place the queen cell in the place where there is honey in the mating group. If the virgin queen has residual limbs or is smaller in size after leaving the cell, she should be eliminated immediately. Virgin queens usually mate and lay eggs on the 9th to 11th day after leaving the cell. Some virgin queens that mate for more than 12 or 13 days or more than half a month should also be eliminated. After the virgin queen starts laying eggs, whether she is a good queen depends on her performance after laying eggs.

6. Whether it is a good king or not depends on its performance in all aspects after laying eggs. In the mating group, after laying a full comb of eggs, it should be immediately exchanged with an empty comb in the strong group. After laying 4 combs of eggs in a row, it should be lured into the production group for further performance inspection. In the production group, the egg laying, honey production, nectar production, pollen production, etc. are not lower than the production of the same group, or even higher. This new king can be determined as a good king.

Question 8: Is the queen bee in the bee family male or female? The queen bee is female, responsible for mating and reproduction, so she is worshipped by other bees like a queen. She is also very large...

Worker bees are also female, and because they cannot reproduce, they are sent to do hard labor... They are the most numerous in the bee colony.

Drones... of course they are male, they are used for mating with the queen bee... they have a short lifespan.

When a bee colony has two queens at the same time, some of them will follow the new queen to find another place to live.

Question 9: Where does the queen bee usually hide? The queen bee is a female bee with fully developed reproductive organs, developed from a fertilized egg. Usually there is only one queen bee in each bee colony. The body is 1/3 longer than that of a worker bee, with a longer abdomen and a stinger at the end. There is no wax gland under the abdomen, and the wings only cover half of the abdomen. The legs are not as strong as those of worker bees, and there is no pollen basket on the hind legs.

There may be thousands to tens of thousands of bees in a bee colony, but there will only be one queen bee. The queen bee will be born from the queen cup, and the queen bee larvae will continue to eat royal jelly until they are fully grown. Female larvae that do not continue to eat royal jelly will become worker bees. The queen bee lives a long life by eating royal jelly all her life, and her life span can be as long as 4-5 years, but in actual production, a new queen needs to be replaced once a year.

The queen bee mates while flying, and only mates once or several times in a certain period of time in her life. After mating, the semen is stored in the spermatheca, which can be used for fertilizing eggs throughout her life. 2 to 3 days after mating, the queen bee begins to lay eggs. The queen bee that has laid eggs generally does not fly away from the hive except for natural swarming. The queen bee lives for 3 to 5 years in the bee colony. Due to the gradual decline in reproductive rate, it is often artificially eliminated in the beekeeping industry.