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1. 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!

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. I caught a nest of bees today. How can I keep them from flying away? What can I feed them with? Please help, experts?

Today you have caught a swarm of bees. If you want to keep them from flying away, you have to find their queen bee and put her in a small cage. As long as the queen bee stays, the bees will follow her. You can feed her with honey or sugar water. It's OK.

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

Bees are a general term for insects of the family Apidae. The most familiar to people are the Italian honey bees and Chinese honey bees that are artificially domesticated for making honey. They have now become an important source of income for many professional apiaries in China. Many people want to engage in the beekeeping industry, but they don’t know how to raise bees well. Let’s take a look at how to raise bees so that they don’t run away!

How to keep bees from running away

Why do bees run away?

1. Lack of honey: When there is no nectar source for a long time and no artificial feeding, the bees will escape when there is a serious lack of honey and pollen in the box.

2. Disease: When the bee colony suffers from a serious disease and cannot receive treatment, the colony cannot recover and has no choice but to flee.

3. Environment: In summer, too high temperature in the beehive will cause the bees to escape, and too high humidity may also cause the bee colonies to escape.

4. Nest insects: Improper management causes a large number of nest insects to grow in the beehive, making it impossible for the bees to survive in the hive and for them to flee.

5. Pests: Bees cannot survive when attacked by ants, butterflies and other enemies and they flee.

How to keep bees from running away

How to keep bees from running away?

1. Keep the beehive environment clean and sanitary. If you find nest insects, deal with them in time.

2. Chinese bees like new combs, so find a suitable time to clean out old combs that have been used for too long.

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

4. When the beehive is short of feed or the bees are multiplying in large numbers, some feed should be added appropriately.

5. When there are multiple kings in the beehive, you can keep the strongest king and take away the others.

How to keep bees from running away

How do bees reproduce so quickly?

1. Queen bee: The speed of bee colony reproduction and the level of production mainly depend on the quality of the queen bee. A young and strong queen bee has strong egg-laying ability, the colony develops rapidly and can maintain a large colony. The worker bees also have strong collecting ability, work actively, have less swarming fever, and have a higher production.

2. Strong colony: A strong colony is the basis of high yield, and the strong colony of Chinese bees is based on the actual situation of Chinese bees, and each period has its own strong colony standards. Only a strong colony can give full play to the egg-laying ability of the queen bee, resist the invasion of diseases and pests, and safely survive the summer and autumn.

3. Sufficient honey: Sufficient honey stored in the hive can enable the bee colony to survive the difficulties when there is a lack of nectar sources in the wild. If there is a lack of honey in the hive, the bee colony will become restless, abandon larvae, the queen bee will stop laying eggs, and even bee theft and escape will occur.

4. New combs: Chinese bees like new combs and dislike old combs. The new combs have large cells and fresh wax. The queen bee especially likes to lay eggs on new combs, and they reproduce quickly. The worker bees bred out are strong and have strong collecting abilities, and it is not easy for nest insects to occur in the colony.

5. Crowding: Chinese bees like to live in dense crowds, and the bee combs should always be kept symmetrical. Dense crowds in winter can help them overwinter. Dense crowds during the nectar flow period can promote fast honey storage, early maturity, and high yield. Dense crowds during the oversummer period can reduce the shrinkage of the colony and make it difficult for enemies to invade.

6. Oversummering: Oversummering is a difficult part of raising Chinese honeybees in the south. In order to safely oversummer, in addition to meeting the above conditions, you must also pay attention to shading, watering, preventing enemies and keeping the bee colony quiet.