CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Basic knowledge of beekeeping guidance content (What are the basic knowledge of beekeeping guidance content)

1. How to get started with beekeeping?

1. Beekeeping site

The site for beekeeping must meet the requirements of quiet surroundings, fresh air, mild climate and abundant nectar sources. It is best to choose a sparsely populated field, orchard or hillside, preferably a sunny, moisture-proof and windproof area.

2. Prepare tools

Before raising bees, you need to prepare basic beekeeping tools, among which the indispensable ones are beehives, bee bonnets and feeders. In addition, you also need to prepare honey shakers, bee sweepers, scrapers, queen cages, queen excluders, escape prevention sheets, smoke sprayers, etc.

3. Bee colony feeding

Before the wintering period arrives, the bee colony must be supplemented with the feed needed for the entire wintering period. During the spring and autumn breeding periods, reward feeding is also required to speed up the reproduction rate. When the bee colony becomes chaotic, it is necessary to use the soothing feeding method to stabilize the emotions of the bees.

4. Management methods

In the process of beekeeping, when the temperature is high in summer, the beehives should be moved to a cool place in time, or a pergola should be built on the beehives to protect them from the sun. In the cold winter, the beehives can be wrapped with insulating materials such as crop straw and filled with straw.

2. Beekeeping knowledge and techniques?

1. The bees raised are mostly Italian honey bees and Chinese honey bees. Italian honey bees have strong colonies and are good at using large quantities of nectar sources. Chinese honey bees are highly adaptable and good at using sporadic nectar sources.

2. Beekeeping requires beehives, bee hats, bee brooms and other tools. Beehives are the most important and basic tools.

3. When raising bees, you should choose a site with abundant and relatively continuous nectar sources around it. The surrounding environment should not be noisy, full of enemies or seriously polluted.

3. Top ten techniques for beginners of beekeeping?

Bee breeding has a history of thousands of years. The purpose of breeding is to obtain honey, propolis, beeswax and bee pollen. It has become an important source of income for many professional apiaries. However, not everyone can raise bees well, especially novices who have no preparation. Let’s take a look at the techniques that novices should master in beekeeping!

1. Bee collection technology

Collecting bees is one of the essential techniques in beekeeping and is often used in beekeeping production, especially when developing Chinese bee breeding. In fact, many people start raising Chinese bees by collecting wild Chinese bee colonies, and most wild Chinese bee colonies build nests in hidden places such as tree holes and stone caves. This requires beekeepers to be able to collect them back. At the same time, when the bee colonies naturally swarm, beekeepers are also required to be able to collect the separated bee colonies.

2. Swarming Technology

Swarming is the way bees expand their population, which can be roughly divided into natural swarming and artificial swarming. Small-scale Chinese bee farming generally allows the bee colony to swarm naturally, while Italian bee farming and large-scale Chinese bee farming mostly use artificial swarming. When using natural swarming, the beekeeper must know the approximate time of the swarming so that he can collect the swarming colony in time, while artificial swarming requires the beekeeper to have certain swarming techniques, otherwise it is very likely to lead to swarming failure.

3. Grouping Technology

Merging colonies means combining two or more colonies into one colony. Merging colonies is required in many situations in beekeeping. For example, when a colony of bees is too weak, it can be merged into other relatively weak colonies to obtain a stronger colony. Another example is that when a double-queen colony is formed, merging colonies can also be achieved. Another example is when a colony of bees loses its queen and temporarily has no new queen or queen cells, it can also be merged into a colony with a queen.

4. Jiewang Technology

King introduction refers to the introduction of a new queen to a queenless colony. The queen bee is the main reproducer of the bee colony and is vital to the development of the bee colony. Although the queen bee is often protected by beekeepers in beekeeping production, it is still inevitable that the queen will be lost accidentally. At this time, the king introduction technique is needed to introduce a new queen to the queen-lost colony. At the same time, the apiary also needs to use the king introduction technique when introducing other queens to the colony.

5. Queen breeding technology

Queen breeding refers to the artificial cultivation of new queens in beekeeping production. The quality of the queen bee determines the development of the bee colony to a large extent. Therefore, bee farms of a certain scale generally replace queen bees regularly. At this time, it is necessary to use artificial queen breeding technology to cultivate a large number of queen bees. At the same time, artificial queen breeding can also be used for targeted selection in beekeeping production to retain those bee species with excellent genetic characteristics and eliminate those bee species with various defects.

6. Disease prevention technology

Although bee diseases are relatively rare, once they occur, they are extremely troublesome to deal with. If you are not careful, it may lead to the destruction of the entire colony or even affect the entire field. Many novice beekeepers do not pay attention to the prevention and control of bee diseases, which leads to the death of entire boxes of bees, causing huge losses. At the same time, bees have many natural enemies in nature, the most common of which are hornets. A few golden-ringed hornets can destroy a bee colony.

Summary: Beekeeping has very high technical requirements. It is recommended that novices should not have more than 10 groups in the early stage. At the same time, they should learn step by step, communicate and learn more with professional beekeepers, and only engage in large-scale breeding after they have mastered certain beekeeping techniques. Do not be too ambitious or have unrealistic expectations.

4. Teach you beekeeping techniques step by step?

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.

5. Basic tutorial on beekeeping?

Beekeeping Tutorial:

1. Breeding site: It is best to raise bees in sparsely populated fields, orchards or hillsides.

2. Prepare tools: prepare beehives, bee hats, feeders, scrapers and other tools.

3. Feeding of bee colonies: Before wintering, supply the bee colonies with the feed they need for the entire wintering period.

4. Management method: Move the beehives to a cool place in summer, or build a shed over the beehives to protect them from the sun.

6. What are the technical knowledge and methods of beekeeping?

Step/Method 1

Collecting bees: Collecting bees mainly includes trapping wild bee colonies and collecting wild bee colonies. Trapping wild bee colonies mainly includes luring beehives and digging luring holes due to different methods. To collect wild bee colonies, you must first find the wild bee nests or clustered bee colonies. In addition, after the bee colony naturally swarms, the beekeeper is also required to be able to collect the swarmed bees in time.

Step/Method 2

Transferring bees: Transferring bees refers to transferring new bee colonies or native bee colonies into live-frame beehives. When transferring native bee colonies, all the honeycombs in the original beehives must be cut off and tied to the frames of the live-frame beehives. New bee colonies can transfer to the hives with empty honeycombs or with honeycombs borrowed from other bee colonies. However, they must be fed in time after transfer to help the colonies quickly stabilize in the hive.

Step/Method 3

Swarming: Swarming can be divided into natural swarming and artificial swarming due to different methods. Natural swarming is to wait for the bee colony to swarm on its own and then capture the swarm in time, while artificial swarming means that a bee colony is split into multiple colonies in a certain way. In addition, artificial swarming can be divided into queenless swarming, queen cell swarming, queen swarming, etc. due to different methods.

Step/Method 4

Merging colonies: Merging colonies means merging two or more bee colonies into one. The principle is to merge queenless colonies into queeny colonies, weak colonies into strong colonies, and sick colonies into healthy colonies. Due to different operations, there are two ways of merging colonies: direct and indirect. Direct merging is simple to operate but the bees are prone to fighting, while indirect merging is more troublesome but relatively safe.

Step/Method 5

Queen replacement: Queen replacement refers to the introduction of a new queen bee into a bee colony after it loses its queen. There are two methods of queen replacement: direct and indirect. Direct queen replacement is simple but prone to worker bees surrounding the queen, while indirect queen replacement is more complicated but much safer. In particular, when introducing high-quality queen bees, it is recommended to use the relatively safe indirect queen replacement method.

Step/Method 6

Disease prevention: Bee disease and pest control is the highlight of beekeeping production. In fact, in order to achieve high beekeeping yields, disease and pest control must be done well. For example, during the peak period of disease and pests, it is necessary to treat diseases if there are any, and prevent diseases if there are none. In addition, beehives, nest frames and other beekeeping tools must be disinfected regularly and wax scraps, bee corpses and other debris accumulated at the bottom of the hive must be cleaned up in time.

Step/Method 7

Feeding: Feeding technology is a key technology that must be mastered in bee breeding. There are three types of feeding, namely, supplementary feeding, reward feeding and soothing feeding, depending on the purpose. Subsidized feeding is to provide the bee colony with food to sustain its survival, reward feeding is to stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs and encourage worker bees to raise larvae, and soothing feeding is to quickly stabilize the panicked bee colony.

Step/Method 8

Queen breeding: Queen breeding technology is a technique that must be mastered when breeding high-quality queen bees. Due to different operations, there are mainly two methods: artificial selection and artificial queen breeding. Artificial selection refers to the artificial selection of bee colonies with excellent genetic characteristics as the population, while artificial queen breeding is to artificially make queen cells with beeswax and then use worm transfer needles to move in larvae to breed queen bees on a large scale.