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How to artificially raise bees? How to make it with soybean powder instead

Fry the soybeans until they are 80% cooked, then peel them and grind them into powder. Then mix honey and soybean powder in a ratio of 2:3 to make wet powder. Allow the wet powder to pass through a sieve with a pore size of 3 mm to appear as natural pollen. Then, add half the weight of the honey in sucrose powder, stir it evenly, pour it into the empty nest cells, and gently tamp it with a brush until the cells are 70% to 80% full of pollen.

Finally, apply a small amount of honey water on the pollen room to complete the artificial pollen comb. Each comb added should have a pollen room on one side and an empty nest room on the other side.

After tightening the combs, reward feeding is carried out from the bottom of the box every night. Pour sugar water or honey water into the feeder at the bottom of the box. The first feeding can be slightly more, generally 350~400ml per group. After that, it depends on the number of bees and the size of the egg-laying circle. It is appropriate to have a small amount of horn honey on the combs. Feed frequently, once a night, without interruption, and the feeding amount should not be too much.

Additional information:

Propolis production

Propolis is in short supply due to its low production. When collecting propolis, a clean cloth is usually used to quickly and gently collect it to avoid various impurities that affect the quality of propolis. The production of propolis is not high. Generally, it should be quickly placed in the refrigerator for freezing and storage after it is collected. After a certain amount is accumulated, it will be released for sale. Generally speaking, the production of propolis products by bees is very low. If you want to use propolis as your main product, you can raise the "Caucasian" bee species with a higher propolis production.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Bee

Pollen is the only source of protein for bees and is an indispensable substance for their reproduction and survival. However, natural pollen is expensive and in short supply, so beekeepers often make artificial pollen substitutes. Practice has shown that artificial pollen substitutes are not only as effective as natural pollen if they are properly made, but can also greatly reduce breeding costs and are of great promotion value. Soybean powder is rich in protein and is often used to replace pollen. To give full play to the efficacy of soybean powder and meet the nutritional needs of bees, it must be reasonably prepared. 1. The fat content of full-fat soybean powder is too high, which can easily lead to indigestion after bees eat a lot, especially during the wintering period and spring breeding period, when the weather is cold or rainy, bees cannot fly and excrete, and often suffer from "big belly disease". Therefore, soybeans are defatted (oil pressed) and then ground into powder, which is beneficial for bees to digest after eating. 2. Soybeans are often fried before grinding, resulting in serious loss of vitamins and lysine. In addition, the protein content in soybean powder is too high, which affects the absorption of calcium and phosphorus. Therefore, soybean powder used to feed bees should be added with appropriate amounts of vitamins and minerals. 3. Adding an appropriate amount of malt powder to soybean powder will help bees digest it. The method of making malt powder is: wash the wheat to remove impurities, soak it in clean water for a day and night, pick it up and put it into a woven bag, germinate it at 30℃ for 24 to 36 hours, the malt can be as long as 1 cm, and then dry the malt and grind it into powder.

Are those bees still artificially bred now?

The benefits of honey are obvious. Now more and more people are raising bees. But there are different types of bees, and different types of bees have different breeding methods. Superior bees will have a higher honey yield. Here are some bee species suitable for breeding for your reference.

1. Northeastern Black Bee

The Northeast Black Bee is the only local excellent bee species in China that has been bred through natural selection and artificial breeding in a closed and superior natural environment. It is distributed in Raohe County, Heilongjiang Province, my country. Its various physiological indicators are significantly better than the world's four famous bee species, which is incomparable to other bee species. It is also a rare and extremely precious bee gene bank in my country and even in the world.

1. Morphological characteristics

There are two types of queen bees of Northeastern black bees. One is completely black, and the other has brown rings on the back plates of the 1st to 5th abdominal segments. There are inverted triangle black spots on the midline of the back plates from the first abdominal segment to the last segment, and the hairs are all yellow-brown. There are two types of worker bees. One is completely black chitin, and the other has smaller yellow spots on both sides of the back plates of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments, and the hairs on the back plates of the chest are yellow-brown. Drones have only one black body color. The rear edges of the back plates of the 1st to 5th abdominal segments all have brown shiny edges, and the last segment is black.

2. Variety Source

The Northeastern black bee has stable heredity and its own special morphological indicators and biological characteristics. It originates from the mixed-inhabiting area of ​​European black bees and Carcharodon carcharodontos. In some aspects, it is similar to the European black bee, and in some other aspects, it is similar to the Carcharodon carcharodontos. This fully demonstrates that both the European black bee and the Carcharodon carcharodontos are the parents of the Northeastern black bee. At the same time, it can be concluded that the Northeastern black bee is a "new variety" formed by the natural hybridization of the European black bee and the Carcharodon carcharodontos after a long period of natural selection combined with artificial selection.

3. Population Advantage

The Northeastern black bee is resistant to cold and wintering, has strong disease resistance and stress resistance, has a mild temperament, is not afraid of light, has strong production and breeding ability, raises insects early in spring, develops colonies rapidly, maintains large colonies, has weak swarming, and has strong collecting ability. It can not only use nectar sources such as basswood and Stachys hairyus to produce large quantities of commercial honey, but is also good at using scattered nectar and pollen sources: it has good overwintering performance, saves feed, has average directional ability, strong stealing ability, strong wax secretion ability, and the honey cell capping is intermediate.

4. Reproductive capacity

The queen of the Northeast Black Bee has strong egg-laying ability, which is neat, concentrated and well-ordered. In summer, the area of ​​pupa chambers on the brood comb can reach 70-80%. The worker bees are active in raising larvae. In general, the two egg-laying peaks occur in early June and early August. Most queens start laying eggs in early March and stop laying eggs in late September. The colony grows rapidly in early spring, and the colony reaches its peak in early July every year. The average colony can reach 5-6 kilograms, and the strongest colony can reach 7 kilograms.

5. Production performance

Northeast Black Front has a strong ability to collect honey. After hybridization with other bee species, it can increase the honey collection by more than 30%. It has a strong ability to secrete wax and build honeycombs. It likes to build redundant honeycombs. From spring to autumn, it builds honeycombs whenever there is a honey source outside. During the linden honey period, 10 frames of bees can repair 2 honeycombs in a day and night. During the honey flow period, the gaps in the box are filled with redundant honeycombs. It can make good use of both large and sporadic honey sources. The honey is stored in a concentrated and full manner. It is capped after checking for honey 3 days after entering the honeycomb. The honey cells on the upper part of the honeycomb are rapidly raised, and the upper part of the hive is formed into one body. The heaviest honeycomb can reach 7 kg.

2. Chinese honey bee

The Chinese honey bee is a subspecies of the Oriental honey bee, also known as the Chinese honey bee, the Chinese bee, the native bee, etc. It is a unique bee species in my country. It has the advantages of utilizing scattered nectar plants, strong collecting ability, high utilization rate, long nectar collecting period and adaptability, strong resistance to mites and diseases, and low feed consumption. It is very suitable for fixed-point breeding in my country's mountainous areas.

1. Appearance characteristics

The color of the abdomen of Chinese honey bees varies from region to region, some are yellower, some are blacker, and the average length of the snout is 5 mm. The queen bee has two body colors, one with obvious brown-yellow rings on the abdominal segments and a dark brown abdomen, and the other with no obvious brown-yellow rings on the abdominal segments and a black abdomen. Drones are generally black. Southern bee species are generally smaller than those in the north. Worker bees are 10 to 13 mm long, drones are about 11 to 13.5 mm long, and queens are 13 to 16 mm long.

2. Population Distribution

Chinese honey bees are distributed in 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities from the southeast coast of my country to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, from the Lesser Khingan Mountains in Heilongjiang Province in the north to Wuwei in Gansu Province, Ledu in Qinghai Province and Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest. A small number of them have also been found in deep mountains, from Medog and Shelamu in the middle and lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River in the southwest, to Hainan Province in the south, and to Taiwan Province in the east. The concentrated distribution areas are in the southwest and provinces south of the Yangtze River, with the largest numbers in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hubei, Anhui, Hunan, Jiangxi and other provinces and regions.

3. Living habits

Chinese honey bees are agile in flight, have a keen sense of smell, leave the nest early and return late, and spend 2 to 3 hours more time collecting nectar than Italian honey bees every day. They are good at using sporadic nectar sources. They have a strong ability to build honeycombs, prefer new honeycombs, and love to chew old ones. They are highly resistant to bee mites and American foulbrood, but are easily infected with Chinese honey bee sac brood disease and are easily harmed by wax moths. They like to migrate and are particularly likely to abandon their nests and move when there is a lack of honey or when they are threatened by diseases and enemies. They are prone to natural swarming and bee theft. They do not collect gum, have a poor ability to secrete royal jelly, and the queen bee lays fewer eggs per day than Western honey bees, and the colony is small.

4. Ecological Effects

The Chinese honey bee plays an important role in balancing the ecology, and is particularly beneficial to plants in high-altitude mountainous areas. Many tree species in North China bloom in early spring or late autumn, and some bloom sporadically. Without the Chinese honey bee, the pollination of plants will be affected. This is also a characteristic that other bee species do not possess. If the Chinese honey bee is completely extinct, it will affect the changes in the entire plant symbiotic ecosystem related to it.

5. Current status of the population

Since the introduction and mass breeding of superior Western honey bee varieties such as Italian honey bees and Carnian honey bees in 1896, Chinese honey bees have been seriously threatened, with their distribution area reduced by more than 75% and their population reduced by more than 80%. In the north of the Yellow River, only a small number of Chinese honey bees remain in some mountainous areas and are endangered. Chinese honey bees have become extinct in the plains of the Greater Khingan Range and the Yangtze River Basin, are endangered in semi-mountainous areas, and are vulnerable and rare in mountainous areas. The bee colony has decreased by more than 60%. Currently, only in the Nujiang River Basin in Yunnan and western Sichuan, are they still in a natural survival state.

The only bee species that can be artificially bred now is probably honey bees.