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1. What is the best way to prevent bees from escaping?

It is to install an escape-proof plate at the entrance of the nest. In this way, even if the swarm of bees escapes, the queen bee cannot get out. If the swarm of bees sees that the queen bee has not caught up, they will return.

In addition, if the bee colony is artificially fed several times in a row, as long as there is enough food, they will not escape.

2. Hello! I just collected a nest of bees. How can I keep them from flying away?

You need to use the professional clothes of a beekeeper to collect honey, put on gloves, use a bamboo woven object, or a fruit basket, turn it upside down, like a roof, slowly approach the bee colony, then use your hand to slightly hold it, and gently drive it into the fruit basket until the bee colony enters the fruit basket, and then slowly take it to the beehive. During this process, you must not shake it, otherwise the bee colony will all fly away. It is very particular to raise a good bee colony: there are many aspects of technology. The first is to put it in a clean and odorless large box, and then feed it with sugar water mixed with cold boiled water and white sugar, usually sprayed with a spray bottle, so that the bees can absorb it. Generally, it is necessary to feed until the bee colony builds a hive. There are not many bees. You can put it directly in the beehive. You can check whether there is a queen bee in the bee colony. If there is a queen bee in the bee colony. Just put it in a sealed box, and it will breed by itself. It will take no more than three days to make a new home.

3. How to raise bees so they don’t run away?

There are many tips to keep bees from running away.

1. First of all, you must always keep the beehive environment clean and sanitary.

2. Secondly, you should replenish feed for the bees in time, always pay attention to the health of the bees, and give them medicine in time when they are sick.

3. Finally, always provide bees with a good living space so that they can produce honey safely.

4. How to raise bees so that they don’t fly away?

Chinese bee breeders and pomelo growers in Shishan Town, Meixian County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province answer your questions: How do you raise bees so that they don't fly away?

In the process of beekeeping, bee flying away is a common thing for beekeepers. Even very experienced old beekeepers cannot completely avoid it. Many friends who are new to beekeeping have not noticed the flight mood of the bee colony, and even do not know the reason for the flight. The flight of bees is closely related to the inadequate daily management. Bees do not like to migrate and fly away. A healthy bee colony will never abandon its chicks and honey and fly away without external reasons. Only when the management is not in place, the bees perceive a sense of crisis of survival. Flying away is the instinct of bees to re-select the environment, and they may fly away all year round. Therefore, in the process of beekeeping practice, we can find that there are reasons for the flight of bees. As long as we observe carefully, constantly look for and understand the reasons for the flight of bees, find the reasons and solve them, we can fundamentally solve the problem of bee flying away and avoid losses. The following are some of my experiences and suggestions on the flight of bees in the process of beekeeping for your reference.

1. Choose a good beekeeping site

The beekeeping site should be located in a place with abundant nectar and pollen sources, preferably with continuous sporadic nectar and pollen sources, away from railways, roads, factories and other places with mechanical vibration, salt spray and noise. The environment should be quiet, cool and dry, away from direct sunlight and humidity

2. Maintain sufficient honey and pollen storage in the colony all year round

Since Chinese bees are most afraid of lack of honey and pollen, they should always keep sufficient feed in the nest. During the honey harvesting season, especially in the late stage of honey collection, at least 1-2 honey combs should be kept, and they should not be swept away like Italian bees. When there is a lack of honey and pollen, supplementary feeding should be carried out in time.

3. Avoid human interference

Beekeepers should be familiar with the living habits of Chinese bees. When the nectar and pollen sources are not sufficient during breeding and management, they should focus on observation outside the box and try to reduce opening the box for inspection. During heavy honey flow, it is best to open the box once a day, but the movements should be gentle and the inspection time should be short.

4. Prevent diseases and pests

Bee diseases in Chinese honey bees are mainly caused by necrosis. Beehives, honeycombs and other beekeeping tools must be disinfected and replaced regularly. Preventive medication should be used in advance according to different seasons and the occurrence of bee diseases to reduce the occurrence of bee diseases. The simplest and most effective way to prevent nest worms is to make more honeycombs, eliminate old ones, and regularly clean the wax scraps at the bottom of the hive. At the same time, keep the bees and honeycombs proportional or have slightly more bees than honeycombs. This way, even if nest worms appear at the bottom of the hive, it is difficult for them to get on the honeycombs and cause harm. To prevent ants, four wooden sticks can be used to raise the beehive. This not only reduces the harm caused by ants, but also prevents the beehive from getting damp and rotting on wet ground or grass, thereby reducing the service life of the beehive. To prevent bee theft, it is mainly to raise strong colonies all year round and leave enough honey for the colonies. During the honey shortage period, the nest door should be reduced, and the boxes should be opened less frequently for inspection. Feeding should be done in the evening when the colony stops moving. Be careful not to spill honey or syrup outside, and stay away from Italian bee farms.

5. Transfer to the spleen

For bee colonies showing signs of flight escape, based on the Chinese bees' love for their brood, immediately transfer 1-2 brood combs from other healthy colonies. Preferably, they should contain larger larvae and partially capped brood combs. This can temporarily slow down the bees' desire to escape. Then find out the cause of the escape and take targeted measures to solve the problem.

6. Clip the Queen Bee’s Wings

For bees collected from caves, wall holes, tree holes, etc., if they fail to get on the comb after being placed in the hive, the queen bee does not lay eggs, and there are signs of flight escape, you can cut off half of the wings on one side of the queen bee to prevent it from escaping. However, if you do this, when the bee colony escapes, the queen bee will jump and crawl in front of the nest door. If you don't find it in time, you may lose the queen bee. In addition, the egg-laying life of the queen bee after the wings are clipped is not long, and it is easy to be replaced.

7. Place the Queen Exclusion Fence

When the bee colony is in the mood to escape, installing a queen excluder at the entrance of the nest is a good measure to prevent it from escaping, and it will not harm the queen bee. However, if the cause of the escape is not solved, the queen bee will become hungrier and thinner until she can pass through the queen excluder, and the bee colony will still fly away.

The above is my answer to the question "How to raise bees so that they don't fly away?" based on my own understanding and years of practice in beekeeping. I hope it can help you. If you like it, please follow me. Your attention is my motivation to share my experience. I hope to help more people in need through sharing. Thank you very much for your reading!

5. How to raise bees so that they don’t run away?

Bees are familiar to everyone, and many people have even been stung by them. At present, there are many places in my country that raise bees, and many areas raise bees. My family also raises a lot of bees. Raising bees is also very laborious. If the management is not good, the bees are likely to run away, especially when there is no queen bee. Bee products are very good health products. Honey can beautify and maintain health. Bee breeding is not a simple matter. Beekeepers need to master a lot of knowledge. For a new beekeeper, if he does not understand the technology and management of beekeeping, the bees are likely to run away. Let me share with you how to keep bees from running away.

There are many reasons why bees run away:

1. Insufficient nectar source. In autumn, flowers cannot be trampled, honey and pollen are insufficient, and beekeepers do not feed sugar water in time. In the long run, the bees will suffer from severe shortage of nectar, and will have to look for other nectar sources and find new nests.

2. Diseases and pests:

There are many diseases of bees and many insect pests in beehives, such as sac brood disease, larval rot disease, bee mite pests, etc. If the prevention of diseases and insects is not done in time, and the beehives are not cleaned of pests in time, the bees will not receive timely treatment, which will cause a large number of bees to die, and even the bees will fly away.

3. The beehive has a strange smell:

Generally, if you don't use a newly purchased beehive or a beehive you make yourself, it will have a strong and smelly smell if you don't use it immediately. Some boards can't even be used to make beehives. And beehives can't be placed underground, because ants will crawl into the beehives. My beehives are all made of fir wood, and some are purchased. After buying or making beehives, soak them in water for a while, then dry them in the sun to remove the odor before using them. If you use them directly without removing the odor, the bees will escape.

4. No prevention during the hot season:

Beehives cannot be exposed to the sun, especially in the summer when the temperature is very high. If the beekeeper does not take preventive measures against temperature, the beehives will be exposed to the sun for too long, the temperature will be too high, the queen bee will not be able to lay eggs, and the bees will run away.

Signs of bees flying away: there are pests in the beehive, the queen bee stops laying eggs and eating larvae, and the bees fly away. Bees usually run away in the morning or at noon. The entire group of fleeing bees flies out without stopping, and flies away directly. Because I have a lot of bees at home, many of them have run away. Some of them ran away without the queen bee, and some were caused by improper management.

How to keep bees from flying away:

1. When there is insufficient nectar source, bees cannot step on flowers, so they need to be fed in time. You can feed them by boiling sugar water. My bees are fed with sugar when there is insufficient nectar source. Boil the sugar and wait for the sugar water to cool down. Then fill a bowl with the sugar water and put some leaves on it, preferably longan tree leaves. Put it in the beehive and let the bees stand on the leaves in the bowl to eat the sugar water.

2. Remove pests and diseases from beehives in time:

Because the beehive is made of board, if the beehive is left for too long, there will be some insects or ants in the beehive, so it needs to be cleaned regularly and finally replaced. The bees in my family will clean and replace the beehives from time to time, once a month. The replaced beehives are placed in the river to soak for half a month, and the insects will die. After half a month, take them out, wash them, dry them, and they can be used later.

3. Prevent over-temperature:

The temperature of the beehive cannot be too high, and the beehive must be protected from excessive exposure to the sun. In order to take preventive measures, the beehives I raise at home are covered with iron tiles to prevent them from being exposed to the rainy season and the sun.

4. Placement of beehives:

The placement of beehives is very important. The distance between beehives should be about two meters. It is best to use a wooden stake frame and put two bowls of water at the bottom of the stake frame, so that ants cannot climb up the beehive. The beehive should be placed stably, with the back high and the front low for easy drainage. In addition, holes should be opened in the front and back of the beehive cover, about 5×5 cm, and fixed with wire mesh to facilitate ventilation in the beehive and prevent the temperature of the beehive from being too high.

How to keep bees well?

When choosing a site, the apiary should be built in a higher place with a water source nearby, open ground and facing the sun.

Bee's Choice:

There are too many species of bees, and the bees in different regions are different. I caught a few boxes in Nanning and brought them home. They are different from the bees at home. The bees I caught back home are darker and shorter than the ones at home, which are longer and yellower.

Bee Management:

1. In spring, bees and dragonflies begin to lay eggs, so it is necessary to control and catch dragonflies early, as dragonflies will eat bees.

2. Summer is the production season for bees. It is also the time for swarming, collecting honey, and producing honey syrup. You must take precautions against heatstroke, harm, and pesticide poisoning.

3. In autumn, beekeeping requires breeding queen bees, multiplying winter bees, controlling pests, supplementing winter feed, and feeding sugar water to survive the winter.

4. Bees must be kept warm in winter and not allowed to suffer from cold.