CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to keep bees at home (how to keep bees at home over the winter)

1. What is the best way to keep bees?

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Keep the beehive environment clean and sanitary, and deal with any nest insects in a timely manner.

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Chinese bees like new bees and will find a suitable time to clean out old bees that have been used for too long.

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When wax worms are found, they should be dealt with immediately to ensure that the lives of the bees are not affected.

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When the beehive is short of feed or honey is growing in large quantities, it is appropriate to add some feed.

2. What is the simplest way to keep bees at home?

Here are the easiest ways to keep bees at home

1. Selection of bee colonies: First of all, you need to choose bee colonies that are adapted to the local climate and other conditions according to your living environment. In this way, the survival rate of bees can be basically guaranteed.

2. Selection of beehives: Because beehives need to be placed outdoors, when choosing beehives, try to choose high-quality and sturdy ones.

3. Bee colony environment: Choose a cooler environment to avoid direct sunlight. It is better if there are flowers and plants around, which is convenient for bees to collect honey and is conducive to improving the quality of honey production. Remember, bee colonies must not be released on rainy days, otherwise a large number of bees will die.

4. Feeding: In addition to releasing the bees to collect honey on their own, they also need to be fed with honey, sugar water, etc. every night. In winter, it is necessary to increase artificial feeding efforts to maintain the survival of the bees and increase honey production.

5. Finally, you must pay attention to your own safety when raising bees, because bees are dangerous and you need to make appropriate protective preparations.

3. Tips and methods for raising bees?

1. Selection of bee colonies

Not all regions are suitable for beekeeping, and not all bees are suitable for local breeding. Therefore, the selection of bee colonies is extremely important. First of all, we must understand the local natural environment. It is best to choose local bee species for breeding. Secondly, we can choose bees that grow in suitable local natural conditions, so as to increase the success rate of bee breeding. Finally, when choosing a bee colony, try to choose a bee colony that is diligent in going in and out and collects a lot of pollen.

2. Selection of beehives

The selection of beehives is also very important, as it is a basic condition for bee breeding. Because beehives are usually placed outdoors, and bees basically live in beehives, so the first requirement for choosing beehives is that the material should be solid but light. Secondly, for novices who are just starting to raise bees, it is best to choose a movable frame beehive, which is conducive to the replacement of honeycombs and more convenient in management and honey collection.

3. Colony Transfer

Bee colony transfer is the process of transferring purchased bee colonies or wild trapped bee colonies to selected live-frame beehives. Generally speaking, in order to make the bees adapt to the new environment faster, we will put the honeycombs of the bees into the beehive together, so that the bee colonies can resume normal activities as soon as possible and will not linger in the place where they built their nests before, because their honeycombs have been moved with them.

4. Subsidized feeding

Subsidized feeding is actually a process of supplementary feeding for bees during the honey collection period. We usually feed them artificially with honey, sugar water, pollen, etc. at night. Especially when there is less honey collection, such as in winter, we also need to use supplementary feeding to maintain the survival of bees and increase honey production. At this time, supplementary feeding is generally once in the morning and once in the evening.

5. Reward Feeding

Reward feeding generally consists of two stages, the spring bee breeding season and the autumn bee breeding season. Reward feeding in the spring bee breeding season is to further improve the economic benefits of bee breeding, while in the autumn bee breeding season, it is to enable the bees to successfully overwinter and improve the economic benefits of the coming year. Reward feeding is actually very similar to subsidized feeding, both of which use honey, sugar water, syrup, etc. for feeding, but reward feeding only feeds in the evening every day.

4. How to keep bees?

1. Selection of bee colonies: First of all, you need to choose bee colonies that are adapted to the local climate and other conditions according to your living environment. In this way, the survival rate of bees can be basically guaranteed.

2. Selection of beehives: Because beehives need to be placed outdoors, try to choose high-quality and sturdy ones.

3. Bee colony environment: Choose a cooler environment to avoid direct sunlight. It is better if there are flowers and plants around, which is convenient for bees to collect honey and is conducive to improving the quality of honey output. Remember, bee colonies must not be released on rainy days, otherwise a large number of bees will die.

4. Feeding: In addition to releasing the bees to collect honey on their own, they also need to be fed with honey, sugar water, etc. every night. In winter, it is necessary to increase artificial feeding efforts to maintain the survival of the bees and increase honey production.

5. Finally, you must pay attention to your own safety when raising bees, because bees are dangerous and you need to make appropriate protective preparations.

5. What are the techniques and methods of beekeeping?

1. Choose beehives

A basic condition for raising bees is to choose suitable beehives. You should choose boxes made of solid materials and light texture. Since beehives are generally placed in the open air and bees spend most of their lives outdoors, a good environment must be provided.

2. Transfer bee colonies

First, prepare the live-frame beehive in advance, transfer the purchased bee colony or the wild trapped bees into the beehive, and generally put the honeycomb together, so that the bees can quickly adapt to the new environment and resume normal activities.

3. Subsidized feeding

During the period of honey-gathering, bees are fed supplementary food, usually starting with artificial feeding in the evening, such as pollen, sugar water, honey, etc. In winter, bees collect less honey, so the number of feedings needs to be increased. They can be fed once in the morning and once in the evening with diluted sugar water.

4. Planting plants

In the process of raising bees, a large number of flowers and plants, such as peonies, peonies, rape flowers, etc., can be planted around the site to provide sufficient nectar sources to prevent the bees from flying to distant places and reducing economic benefits.