CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are the advantages and disadvantages of bicolor bees?

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of bicolored bees?

The bi-colored bee is the main bee species in South China. The co-evolution with the climate and nectar source conditions in South China or the long-term strong ultraviolet light caused genetic mutation, resulting in the bi-colored Chinese bee.

Advantages: strong collection ability, fast reproduction and development, strong queen bee laying ability, large colony area, heat resistance, high temperature resistance. Large honey source, considerable honey collection. Adapt to hot and humid environment, adapt to tropical or subtropical areas with long summer and autumn, short spring and winter, and no frost.

Disadvantages: Since they lay so many eggs, they have to feed so many larvae and eat so much, which often results in not much remaining honey in the nest. It is difficult for the queen to get any honey from small nectar sources.

Bicolor bees are bees with intermediate colors.

The advantages are fast growth, large colony and high heat resistance.

The disadvantage is that the annual group production is not as good as that of Black King, but the total production of development is more than that of Black King.

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of bi-colored queen bee?

The advantages are fast development, large colony, and high heat resistance; the disadvantages are that the annual colony production is not as good as that of Black King, but the total production of development is more than that of Black King.

3. Types and advantages and disadvantages of Chinese honey bee queens

1. Advantages:

The queen bee is a type of pollinating insect that plays a vital role in the process of pollination. 76% of the world's food crops and 84% of plants rely on them for pollination.

2. Disadvantages:

After being stung by multiple bees, you may experience dizziness, headache, chills, fever, asthma, increased heart rate, decreased blood pressure, and even shock and coma. If you are allergic to bee venom, you may suffer from shock, suffocation, and even death.

Additional information:

There are two types of Chinese honey bee queens: the black queen and the queen with a red abdomen. The black queen is black all over and small in size. The worker bees in the colony are also slightly smaller, fly fast, and have strong resistance, but they reproduce slowly, grow slowly, produce less honey, and have strong swarming.

The jujube queen bee is large, docile, and has strong egg-laying ability. The bee colony can be cultivated into a strong colony with stable bee product production, but the resistance is poor. The worker bees have obvious yellow rings on their abdomens and are docile. There will not be many jujube queen bees in artificial cultivation, and their traits are very unstable.

In terms of body shape, queen bees with slender abdomens, no fear of light, tails close to the eyes, and orderly egg-laying are good; on the contrary, queen bees with short abdomens, slightly blunt tails, and fear of light are inferior. In a bee farm, we generally select queen bees based on their egg-laying ability and the size of their egg rings during inspection. Those who do not meet the requirements should be dealt with quickly.

4. What is the organization of a Chinese bee colony?

The operation is the same as merging bee colonies, but the direction of the nest door of one of the colonies must be adjusted to be different from that of the other colony, and the bees must be allowed to adapt before merging. The merged colony is first placed on both sides of the beehive, and then placed close to the partition after the two colonies have adapted. It can also be combined with translocation breeding to place the two colonies in a double-colony box before loading. After arriving at the destination, open the nest door of one colony first, and then open the nest door of the other colony after it has settled. Sometimes a stronger bee colony can also be artificially divided into two colonies. The method is to open the front and rear doors of the beehive in advance, let the bees get familiar with it, and then divide it into two, separate it with a partition in the middle, and introduce a new queen bee into the queenless colony.