CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What does spring beekeeping mean?

1. What does spring beekeeping mean?

Spring breeding is when bees reproduce in large numbers when there is sufficient food in spring, and swarming will occur. At this time, one box of bees can be expanded to two or even more groups. This is a means for bees to expand their population.

2. Does anyone have a complete video of beekeeping techniques?

CD-ROM on bee breeding management and disease prevention

3. How do beginners learn to raise bees?

Beekeeping refers to raising bees to obtain honey and other bee products. It has become an important source of income for many professional bee farms. However, raising bees well is not an easy task. In fact, many people want to keep bees but don’t know where to start. Let’s take a look at how novices can learn to raise bees!

1. Understand the habits of bees

Understanding the habits of bees is the most basic prerequisite for beekeeping. In fact, bee colony management is carried out around the habits of bees. Only after figuring out the habits of bees can beekeeping be targeted. For example, artificial swarming is achieved by utilizing and imitating the swarming habits of bees. In addition, the sociality, swarming, metamorphosis, food storage, etc. of bees are all topics that novices must study.

2. Master the use of beekeeping tools

Mastering the use of beekeeping tools is an indispensable part of beekeeping. In fact, beekeeping tools are also treasures summarized and designed by countless generations of beekeepers. Only after mastering the use of various beekeeping tools can beekeeping be more effective. For example, movable frame beehives are more scientifically designed and easier to manage than traditional beehives. In addition, beekeeping tools such as queen excluders, queen cages, escape prevention sheets, worm moving pins, etc. are also must beekeepers must master.

3. Learn beekeeping knowledge

Learning beekeeping knowledge can provide a theoretical basis for beekeeping. In fact, systematic theoretical knowledge is also the cornerstone of raising bees well. Only after perfecting the theoretical knowledge related to beekeeping can beekeeping be reasonable and well-founded. For example, the theoretical basis for introducing a new queen into a bee colony or merging bee colonies is that bees rely on the smell of the colony to identify similarities and differences. In addition, beekeeping knowledge such as swarming, queen breeding, spring breeding, autumn breeding, overwintering, etc. must also be learned.

4. Use beekeeping technology

Using beekeeping technology is the only way to raise bees well. In fact, beekeeping technology is meaningless if it only remains in theory. Only by combining theory with practice can we master the essence of various beekeeping techniques. For example, artificial swarming technology is completed by combining theory with practice. In addition, merging bee colonies, introducing new queens, disease prevention and control, etc. must be practiced before they can be mastered and used proficiently.

5. Accumulate beekeeping experience

Accumulating beekeeping experience is the key to becoming a master beekeeper. In fact, all master beekeepers have grown up through repeated failures. Only by daring to try and accumulating experience can beekeeping technology make progress. For example, the same problem may be a piece of cake for a master beekeeper, but it is a big challenge for a novice beekeeper. The gap between the two is actually just the difference in accumulated experience.

Do not open the beehive box frequently for inspection. Many novice beekeepers, when they first start beekeeping, have a strong love for bees and always want to open the beehive box to check the bees. This must be noted. Opening the beehive box for inspection should be purposeful. Normally, it is sufficient to open the beehive box once a week. Do not be greedy for honeycombs or colonies. Keeping more bees than honeycombs or bees and honeycombs in proportion is the key point of beekeeping. However, some novice beekeepers do not understand the secret and are always in a hurry to add honeycombs and divide the colonies. This will easily cause problems for the bee colonies. Therefore, novice beekeepers should raise more strong colonies and understand the relationship between bees and honeycombs.

For novice beekeepers, it is recommended to choose Chinese bees, which are relatively easy to manage. Only after knowing the habits of bees can you raise bees well. In fact, the management of bees is centered on habits.

1. First of all, we need to understand bees. Novice beekeepers generally recommend raising Chinese honey bees. Chinese honey bees are easy to reproduce and can be raised without the use of drugs. As long as the bees grow in a place that is warm in winter and cool in summer and sheltered from the wind, they can be raised. But Chinese honey bees are easy to escape, easy to separate bees, and do not like to be disturbed by others. However, as long as there are eggs and spleens, Chinese honey bees are not easy to escape; 2. Learn technology. Learn to check bee technology, understand the various manifestations of bee colonies, learn how to feed bees, and learn how to stabilize bee colonies; 3. Practical operation. Learn more and operate more, and gain more operational experience from actual combat.

4. How often should honey bees be added to a honeycomb in spring breeding? What should be paid attention to in spring breeding of honey bees?

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Generally, it is necessary to add more honeycombs 30 days after the first honeycomb of bees is grown in spring. The specific conditions are determined according to the colony strength, weather, nectar source, technology and other conditions. The principle is to ensure that the bee colony has sufficient ability to protect the honeycombs. The climate is changeable during the spring breeding period, and the temperature difference between day and night is large. Attention should be paid to heat preservation. The specific time of spring breeding should follow the principle of "better late than early". In the early stage of spring breeding, it is necessary to ensure that "there are more bees than honeycombs", and in the middle stage, it is necessary to ensure that "there are fewer bees and more honeycombs". Do not have "few bees and more honeycombs". During spring breeding, reward feeding must be continuous, and the hygiene of the feed must be ensured.

1. How many days should be spent on adding honeycombs to a honeycomb in spring breeding?

1. Generally, it takes 30 days for a beehive to be added to the spring breeding. The specific conditions should be based on the colony strength, weather, nectar source, technology and other conditions. The principle is to ensure that the colony has sufficient ability to protect the honeycomb. Generally, do not add honeycombs in the first 30 days, otherwise the worker bees may suffer from spring decline due to insufficient ability to protect the honeycomb.

2. In the spring multiplication of one beehive, you cannot add a whole honeycomb at a time. In the early stage, you can add 1/4 honeycomb. When the colony strength reaches two honeycombs, you can add half a honeycomb. When the colony strength reaches three or more honeycombs, you can directly add a whole honeycomb. When adding honeycombs, you should add new honeycombs on both sides to help the worker bees protect the honeycombs. After the colony strength becomes stronger, you can add them in the middle to help the worker bees build honeycombs quickly.

2. What are the precautions for bee spring breeding?

1. Strengthen insulation

The climate during the spring breeding season is more changeable, with a large temperature difference between day and night. Too low temperatures at night may cause worker bees to freeze to death, so good insulation work must be done.

2. Better late than early

The specific time of spring breeding varies with different climates in different places, but the basic principle of spring breeding is "better late than early". Too low temperature too early will cause the bee colony to "prematurely age", and too late will not catch up with the nectar flow period of major nectar sources.

3. More bees than spleens

In the early stage of spring breeding, it is necessary to ensure that there are more bees than combs. When adding combs in the middle stage, it is necessary to ensure that there are "proportionate bees and combs". Do not add "few bees and too many combs". If there are too many combs and too few bees, it will be bad for the bee colony to keep warm and for the worker bees to protect the combs, which will lead to the freezing of brood combs or the outbreak of various larval diseases.

4. Reward Feeding

During spring breeding, reward feeding must be continuous, and the hygiene of the feed must be guaranteed to prevent the bee colony from developing bee diseases due to eating problematic feed.