CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What is the secret to keeping bees? (What is the secret to keeping bees?)

1. What are the 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.

2. How to keep bees well?

In order to raise bees well, some key measures must be taken to achieve twice the result with half the effort. 1. Choose suitable bee species. Different bee species have different biological characteristics and production performance, and the same bee species has different performance under different geographical environments and nectar sources. Therefore, in beekeeping production, it is necessary to select high-quality bee species that have been selected to increase the output of bee products. A bee farm should not raise a bee species for a long time to avoid the decline of the production performance of the bee species, but should regularly introduce and change species. 2. Select and breed excellent queen bees. The quality of queen bees is mainly determined by two aspects: one is that the queen bee is young, and the other is that the queen bee is strong. Most young queen bees lay eggs actively, lay a lot of eggs, and lay eggs quickly. The queen bee is strong, its newborn is heavy, has many ovarian tubes, moves steadily, lays many eggs per day, lays eggs quickly and orderly, expands spirally, and lays eggs in the middle of the room eye. It does not lay drone eggs in the worker bee room for two or even three years, does not like to build a platform, does not like to swarm, and has a strong regularity in the time of stopping and starting egg laying. It has the inherent characteristics of this variety or group breeding. 3. Adequate honey, pollen and feed Adequate honey, pollen and feed, in a broad sense, means sufficient food. Food is the source of nutrition for bees' life, reproduction, honey syrup and beeswax to make honeycombs. To keep bees well, they must have sufficient food, which is especially important in the season when external nectar sources are scarce and during the wintering period. 4. Strong bee colonies A strong bee colony means that it can maintain a relatively strong skirt at all times of the year. Strong colonies overwinter, strong colonies multiply in spring, and strong colonies are put into production, which are the basic measures for high-yield beekeeping. Only with a strong bee colony can the mortality rate of overwintering bees be reduced, a strong production colony can be cultivated early in early spring, the ability of the bee colony to resist various diseases can be improved, strong and disease-free bee individuals can be cultivated, and the yield of bee products can be maximized. 5. Healthy bee colonies Healthy bee colonies are the guarantee of high yield in beekeeping. Some beekeepers only pursue the yield of bee products one-sidedly, but do not pay attention to the prevention and diagnosis of bee diseases. Once the bees are sick, even the strongest bee colonies may quickly decline or even the whole colony will be destroyed, which seriously affects the yield of bee products. Therefore, if you want to raise bees well, you must pay attention to the prevention and treatment of bee diseases, and follow the principle of preventing diseases before they occur and treating them early. Only by strengthening the prevention and treatment of bee diseases and ensuring that the bee colonies are healthy and disease-free can we lay a good foundation for high bee production.

3. What are the top ten tips for beekeeping?

The first tip: feed sugar to the bad bees and feed them with pollen frequently; the second tip: it is easy to keep warm but difficult to keep moist, and to keep moist you just need to seal well; the third tip: the breeding group is large but the mating group is small, and the strength of the group is easy to distinguish; the fourth tip: the secret of bee breeding is to raise the queen, and it all depends on it to have children; the fifth tip: the most important thing is to cultivate honey bees, and feeding the young and the queen depends on the honey; the sixth tip: close relatives are compatible and distant relatives are excluded, and the insects to be moved must be close and sparse; the seventh tip: after eating at night, it is forbidden to feed during the day, and the reason for the theft is publicity; the eighth tip: rotten eggs are rare and heat-damaged, and the use of medicine to dissipate heat is very different; the ninth tip: nest worms are difficult to treat and the key is prevention, they are difficult to enter the beehive and do no harm; the tenth tip: the rich raise bees and the poor come to scrape honey, you want to save money but they keep the food.

4. Beekeeping secrets?

Tip 1: Choose a good bee farm

The selection of a apiary is the key task of beekeeping, especially for fixed-point beekeeping. First of all, there must be abundant and effective nectar sources near the apiary (the collection radius of bees is about 3 kilometers. If it exceeds 3 kilometers, even if there are more nectar sources, the bee colony cannot collect nectar effectively). Secondly, there must be a clean water source near the apiary, but it cannot be a large area of ​​water such as lakes. Thirdly, the environment near the apiary should be quiet. Finally, the number of enemies such as wasps and ants near the apiary should be as small as possible.

Tip 2: Choose the right bee species

At present, the most commonly raised bees in my country are Chinese honey bees and Italian honey bees. Chinese honey bees have strong adaptability and are good at utilizing scattered nectar sources, but their honey production is far less than that of Italian honey bees. Italian honey bees have high honey production and can produce propolis, royal jelly, etc. and can chase flowers and honey, but they are not as good as Chinese honey bees in adaptability and disease resistance. Therefore, when choosing bee species, it is necessary to choose according to the specific local conditions. It is recommended to raise Chinese honey bees in mountainous areas with more scattered nectar sources, and it is recommended to raise Italian honey bees in plains with more concentrated large nectar sources.

Secret 3: The queen bee must be excellent

The queen bee is the foundation of the development of the bee colony and determines the development of the bee colony to a large extent. Basically, it can be said that beekeeping is raising the queen. The bee colony bred by high-quality queen bee has obvious advantages in all aspects. Therefore, to raise bees well, you must choose a good queen. High-quality queen bee can be obtained through introduction or self-breeding, but no matter how the queen bee is obtained, it must be ensured that the queen bee can adapt to the local climatic conditions. Otherwise, even if the queen bee is of the best quality, it will be useless if it cannot realize its potential.

Secret 4: The group must be strong

A strong colony is the basis of high-yield beekeeping. Beekeeping without a strong colony is basically futile, because only a strong colony can ensure that the colony has a strong collecting ability, only a strong colony can fully exert the egg-laying ability of the queen bee, and only a strong colony can make the colony show strong adaptability. Many novice beekeepers are greedy for quantity, and they swarm as soon as the colony is a certain size. In the end, there are more colonies but less production. Please note that beekeeping requires production rather than quantity. One strong colony can offset all your weak colonies.

Tip 5: Feed enough

Bees collect nectar from flowers and make honey for survival. There is nothing wrong with beekeeping and making honey, but you have to leave enough food for the bee colony. There is a saying that goes "the greed of mankind is like a snake swallowing an elephant" which is very true. When harvesting honey, some people even want to shave off the sawdust on the beehive, and they don't feed the bees. In the end, the bee colony escapes and they look around for the reason. It's really ridiculous. If you were a bee, would you run away or not? Staying is a dead end, but escaping to another place and building a new nest may give you a chance of survival.

Secret 6: The honeycombs should be proportional

Honeycombs are the foundation of the development of a bee colony. They are used for both feeding larvae and storing food. Some novices add honeycombs indiscriminately for the sake of speed, resulting in more honeycombs than bees in the bee colony. The end result is tantamount to "forcing growth". As the saying goes, "you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry". Honeycombs should be added at the right time and in the right amount. When the temperature is low, we must ensure that there are more bees than honeycombs, and when the temperature is high, at least the bees and honeycombs must be proportional. If there are more honeycombs than bees at the same time, the colony is bound to collapse.

Tip 7: Disease prevention

Bee colonies are highly adaptable, but that does not mean that bees will not get sick. In fact, disease in bee colonies is extremely terrifying and can even destroy a apiary in a very short time. Therefore, the prevention and control of bee diseases should be given top priority. Beekeeping tools used in daily life should be strictly disinfected, the quality of feed should be strictly controlled, and pests such as nest insects and bee mites should be prevented regularly. Predators such as hornets, ants, and spiders should be prevented. If any abnormality is found, the cause should be found and dealt with in a timely manner.

5. Beekeeping skills and methods?

1. Site selection

The place for beekeeping must be selected in a place with abundant nectar sources, quiet environment, good ventilation and sunshine, flat terrain, and high and dry areas. At the same time, it also needs to be far away from pollution sources, crowded places, and places with many natural enemies.

2. Tool preparation

First, you need a standard beehive, then a nest frame. It is recommended to buy a nest frame with a nest foundation installed directly. Next, there are three protective kits: bee clothes, bee hats, and gloves. The rest are some small accessories, such as: escape prevention sheets, queen bee cages, queen bee clamps, feeders, bee collection cages, etc.

3. Things to do when transferring containers

The transfer should be carried out under the condition of stable temperature above 20℃ and clear and windless. If the original bee colony is located in an inconvenient place to operate, it should be moved to the transfer location gradually every day. In order to avoid excessive concentration of bees and fighting during the transfer, the transfer should be carried out in batches and the bee colony should be evacuated in time according to the situation.

4. Feeding management

Feeding is a key technology that must be mastered in beekeeping. It can be roughly divided into subsidized feeding and reward feeding. Subsidized feeding is to supplement the bee colony with the food necessary for survival, while reward feeding is to stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs and encourage worker bees to feed larvae.

6. Beekeeping tips?

1. Tips for choosing beehives: beehives are placed outdoors for a long time, exposed to wind, rain and sun, and bees live and raise bees and store feed in beehives, so the structure of the beehive must conform to the living habits of bees, the size should be standardized, and the structure should be strong and durable. The wood used to make beehives should be solid, light, and not easy to deform, and it should be fully dried. In the north, white pine, basswood, and paulownia should be used, and in the south, fir should be used.

2. The construction of honeycombs should be started in late spring when the climate is stable and the temperature is around 15°C. Honeycombs need to be protected from bee robbers and rodents, and it is best to use fumigation drugs when storing them.

.3. Seasonal management of bee breeding: Pay attention to keeping the bee colony warm in spring. Spring management should be based on the climate. When the temperature stabilizes at 15℃, the bees should be moved to a place where flowers are in full bloom so that the bees have enough nectar to collect. In spring, the more bees fly out, the stronger and healthier the bee colony is. If there are few bees flying out of the beehive, it should be checked quickly and handled in time. The box should be opened for inspection at noon when the weather is good and the temperature is at least above 8℃.

4. Do a good job in bee colony mite control. Bee mites are the most important pests of bees, which seriously harm bee colonies and affect production.