CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are the management techniques for bee breeding in summer?

1. What are the management techniques for bee breeding in summer?

Place the beehive in an open area with grass and good ventilation. The honey will become stale if stepped on by the ground.

The summer bee breeding and management technology is about how to help bees find honey. The bees can be arranged in the orchard to facilitate them in finding honey.

1. Prevent heatstroke and cool down. The biggest threat to bee colonies in summer is high temperature and heat. 2. Subsidize feeding. There are few outdoor nectar sources in summer. 3. Take honey and honeycombs. Bee colonies are very large in summer. In addition, a large number of honeycombs squeeze the space of the bee colony, causing the bee colony to be extremely crowded. 4. Prevent natural enemies. The natural enemies of bees are wasps, ants, dragonflies, bats and frogs. 5. Strictly prevent and control bee mites. Bee mites are the main parasites of bees.

1. Heatstroke prevention and cooling

The biggest threat to bee colonies in summer is high temperature and heat. Excessive temperature not only affects the normal collection of bee colonies, but also causes the queen bee to stop producing. At this time, the beehives can be placed in a shaded and ventilated place. If the beehives cannot be moved, a canopy can be built on them. At the same time, when the weather is hot, the worker bees will collect water to cool down. At this time, some clean water sources can be set up near the apiary for the bees to collect water. In extremely high temperatures, ice bags can be placed around the beehives to cool down.

2. Subsidized feeding

The temperature outside is generally high in the summer, and there are relatively few nectar sources outside in some areas. At this time, the Chinese bees can generally use the scattered nectar sources and stored honey to safely overwinter, but the Italian bees need to strengthen the supplementary feeding of the bee colony. When supplementing, you can use honey mixed with water or syrup and put it in the feeder for feeding. At the same time, you must pay attention to prevent bee theft when feeding, and never spill feed near the beehive. If feed is spilled, it should be cleaned up in time.

3. Extracting honey and spleen

At the beginning of summer, the bee colony is relatively large, and the large number of honey combs further squeeze the colony's activity space, causing the colony to be extremely crowded and severely poorly ventilated. At this time, the beekeeper must take out the honey in time and at the same time pull out some useless honeycombs to free up space, but when taking honey, be sure to leave enough honey for the colony. Adequate feed can make the colony quiet and reduce activity, thereby extending the life of the worker bees. When feed is insufficient, it must be supplemented in time.

4. Prevention of Enemies

Bees have many enemies, the most common of which are hornets, ants, dragonflies, bats and frogs. Among them, hornets are the most serious. In early summer when food is abundant outside, hornets generally will not risk attacking the bee colony. However, after midsummer, food will gradually become scarce, and at this time hornets will attack the bee colony alone or in groups (Chinese bees have a strong resistance to hornets, while Italian bees are extremely susceptible to hornets). Therefore, beekeepers must do a good job of preventing pests.

5. Strictly control bee mites

Varroa mites are the main parasites of honey bees. They grow and reproduce inside the hive throughout their lives. Generally speaking, the stronger the colony, the greater the resistance to Varroa mites. However, in summer, due to the lack of external nectar sources and the generally high temperature, the colony strength can easily decline, which can easily lead to outbreaks of Varroa mites, shortening the lifespan of bees, reducing their collecting ability, etc. When the damage is severe, a large number of larvae and pupae will die. Therefore, strict control of Varroa mites in summer is the basis for ensuring that bees can safely overwinter.

Summary: There are two main unfavorable factors in beekeeping in summer. One is the high temperature, and the other is the lack of nectar sources. These two unfavorable factors can easily lead to a decrease in the reproduction rate of the bee colony or even cause the queen bee to stop producing. Therefore, the key task of beekeeping in summer is cooling and supplementary feeding.

2. How to raise hornets?

Wasp breeding method:

Choose a quiet, sunny, wind-sheltered environment with a certain number of trees and water sources within 1,000 meters around, which is an ideal breeding site.

Detailed explanation:

The following characteristics should be taken into consideration when selecting a breeding site:

1. Safe for people and animals: The distance from the bee colony to areas where people, animals and poultry often appear should not be less than 300 meters, because once the bee colony becomes disturbed, it will endanger any moving target within about 200 meters.

2. There are trees and water sources with materials for building nests; sources of nest materials include Yunnan pine, sand pine, blue eucalyptus, horsetail or various rotten wood.

3. There are a variety of plants within the surrounding 1.5 square kilometers, which is conducive to the diversity of hornet food.

Note:

There are two dangers in raising hornets. The first is being stung. If you want to raise hornets, you must first do the following two things.

1. Have sufficient knowledge and understanding of wasps and be familiar with their living habits and patterns, which will reduce the possibility of being stung to a minimum. Especially when breeding large wasps, you must be very careful and cautious.

(2) Even if you are a veteran with strict protection, it is inevitable to be stung occasionally, because 1 mg of bee venom (equivalent to the venom of two ordinary hornets) can put a person who is highly sensitive to bee venom in danger of life. So if you want to engage in hornet breeding; you need to gradually increase your tolerance to bee venom (medically known as antibody desensitization) to avoid danger.

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3. Beekeeping is a highly technical job. How do you prevent ants from invading when raising bees?

Ants are the natural enemies of bees and can be divided into two major categories: termites that specialize in destroying honey boxes, and bee-eating ants that attack bees and steal honey.

The main natural enemies of bees are wasps, toads, birds, spiders, ants, cockroaches, etc. The biggest pest of Italian bees is mites, and the biggest pest of Chinese bees is nest mites. Prevention and control are very troublesome, which is a headache for beekeepers. When breeding Italian bees, the infestation of mites must be controlled regularly. Mites exist in nature. When bees collect flowers, they can easily attach to the flowers and bring them back to the hive. Disinsection and nest cleaning will also lead to outbreaks again, so Italian beekeepers must prevent mites for almost every major honey source.

The beehive insects in the middle were brought in from outside. There is a kind of wax moth that particularly likes to eat beeswax. It will take the opportunity to drill into the beehive at night to lay eggs. The eggs will hatch into nest insects. They will eat the honeycomb and bite the pupae, which is very harmful to bees. The key to prevention and control methods is to make the bee colony dense and the worker bees have sufficient cleaning ability, so that the eggs produced by the wax moth can be cleaned out in time and cannot hatch and harm the bee colony. In addition, the beehive must be tight and there must be no holes or gaps for the wax moth to drill into.

The nest door should be as small as possible to prevent wax moths from entering. There should be no lights in the apiary, which will attract a large number of wax moths and the hive will be overwhelmed. Beekeepers should pay attention to cleaning the wax scraps at the bottom of the hive, pay attention to changing the combs to keep the bee colony clean, and try to use new combs so that the nest eggs have no hiding place to avoid harm. There are now drugs to treat this disease, such as Chao Chuqing. However, it is difficult to cure nest worms with drugs. Centralized treatment is required. And wasps, whether Italian or Chinese, are harmful. The only way to prevent and control them, in addition to the ruthless killing of wasps, is to find a way to remove the wasp nest.

Or catch a few live bumblebees, stick a highly toxic pesticide powder on their backs, let the bumblebees fly back to the hive, poison the hive, and kill all the bumblebees. You can also use a net bag to block the bees outside the hive door, but the workers can go in and out normally. Toads only come out at night, run to the hive door, and eat the worker bees guarding outside. In addition to catching toads regularly every night, the solution is to raise the hive so that the toads cannot get close to the nest door, so that the bees will not be eaten. As for birds and dragonflies, they are also good at eating flying bees. But we really can't help.

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