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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. How to feed the newly collected bees so that they do not run away?

Choose a relatively spacious place for the newly collected bees, lay a foundation stone underneath and put a cement board on it. Put the bees on it with their backs facing northwest and southeast, facing the sun and sheltered from the wind. Put a large plate in the nest box with a small amount of honey and a small amount of pine needles on it. There must be no obstruction in front of the entrance and exit.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

How to keep bees from running away is basic knowledge for beekeepers. Bees usually run away because of lack of honey, no honeybees in the nest, disease, natural enemies and human interference in their lives, etc. I am a beekeeper who raises Chinese bees. The following will only introduce how to keep Chinese bees from running away. You are welcome to communicate and give guidance.

Chinese bees are native wild species with wild temperaments, so it is easy for them to escape during breeding. To prevent Chinese bees from escaping, you need to manage the bees regularly, understand the status of the bee colony, and deal with things that may cause the bees to escape in a timely manner.

Chinese bees have strict requirements on the environment. If there is any odor inside or outside the beehive, they are prone to escape. Especially if smoke from the smoke box is blown through the beehive frequently, they will abandon their bees and escape. Chinese bees should be placed in a sunny place with fresh air, easy access, warm in winter and cool in summer, not humid and dry, facing south, so that the bees can be raised easily and will not escape.

Amateur beekeepers and beginners should avoid opening the bee boxes to check on the bees frequently, especially during the summer and during the barren period. Opening the boxes and cutting the combs frequently to check on the bees will cause them to escape. If there is no seed during the summer and there is a lack of honey, and then you shake the bees and cut the combs, the escape rate is very high. You should replenish honey in time and install queen excluders to prevent escape.

In beekeeping, it is important to manage bees well and prevent them from escaping. Try to manage the bee colonies by regularly opening the boxes to check the bees. Inspecting once every seven days during the swarming season can greatly prevent the loss of bees. Knowing the queen cells in the hive can also help to take timely countermeasures. During the rest of the year, a major inspection can be carried out every ten days. This can effectively detect the condition of the brood combs, whether they are sick or without brood, whether there are nest insects, and how much molasses is. This way, you can deal with them in time and prevent the bees from escaping. In the summer season, bee colonies are more likely to stop production. Try to focus on spot checking one or two boxes during inspections. If you find that there is less honey, you can replenish honey with reference to the whole field. Do a good job of heat protection, shade, ventilation and heat dissipation. Do not conduct major inspections to cause unnecessary bee escapes.

During the normal breeding period, if there is a lack of pollen and honey in the outside world, you should often replenish pollen and honey to prevent the bees from abandoning their brood and escaping due to lack of pollen and honey. During the honey collection period, try not to harm the brood combs. When collecting the last batch of honey, replenish sufficient honey in time to prevent the bees from escaping due to lack of honey.

Well, I will stop here about how to keep bees from running away. This question is quite broad, so I can only give a brief introduction. If there is enough honey in the beehive, there are eggs and larvae, no diseases and natural enemies (such as ants, cockroaches, wasps, etc.), no thieves, and a good environment, the bees will be stable and will not run away. For more knowledge, please click the editor center to learn about related issues, or leave a comment below. Thank you for sharing.