CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Basic knowledge guide for beekeeping (electronic version of basic knowledge guide for beekeeping)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Which book on beekeeping technology is the best?

Which book on beekeeping is the best? In my nearly sixty years of beekeeping career, I have subscribed to all the basic magazines since their inception, such as China Beekeeping, Bee Magazine, Beekeeping Methods, Beekeeping Manual and other books and magazines. I have purchased and read all the books and magazines that are available on the market.

What benefited me the most was the bee biology translated from the Soviet Union and the injury force law and heat injury law in the numerical control beekeeping method of Yang Duofu published by the editorial department of Yunnan Bee Magazine. They do not teach you how to feed bees, but are all theoretical foundations and dialectical hard-branch principles. Friends who are new to beekeeping will call them garbage books and throw them away. In fact, they are the comparative path of every good beekeeper. All successful beekeepers have not read these two books. In fact, all their management methods are completely consistent with the contents of these two books. They have obtained this knowledge in the process of beekeeping through exchanges with beekeepers who understand the contents of these two books.

For example, as a beekeeper, if you don't understand the physiological processes and habits of bees, how can you keep bees well? How can you treat sick bees? Isn't your beekeeping just blind? Sometimes you succeed, but it is also due to the right time and place. In the end, you will still fail.

As for Yang Duofu's numerical control beekeeping method, it once caused a sensation among the knowledgeable people in the domestic beekeeping industry in the 1980s, because his law of heat injury completely overturned the high-intensity heat preservation breeding in the old beekeeping method in my country. At that time, it can be said that most people in the beekeeping industry could not accept it. However, Yang Duofu finally gained the recognition of the beekeeping industry through the analogy of physical facts. I think that no matter how advanced the branch technology in the beekeeping industry is, the law of injury and the law of heat injury in Yang Duofu's numerical control beekeeping method will never be outdated.

Therefore, I think that among the books and periodicals in the beekeeping industry, the bee biology and the injury law and heat injury law in the numerical control beekeeping method of Jan Duofu are priceless treasures in beekeeping, although they do not teach you how to feed bees or how much water to add to a pound of sugar in winter and summer. Therefore, I think these two books on beekeeping are the most valuable for learning and are the books and periodicals that every beekeeper must read. They are the hard-core principles for keeping bees well in life.

4. A handbook of efficient beekeeping techniques?

1. Understand the living habits of bees Understand the bee environment and the living habits of bees. The living habits of bees are the basis for raising bees well. Usually, you should observe more, understand more, and think more.

2. Learn the daily management techniques of bees. The daily management techniques of bees mainly include: natural swarming, artificial swarming, queen breeding, artificial breeding of queen bees, swarming, queen introduction, transfer of queen bees, organization of mating groups, storage of queen bees, honey collection, honey extraction, supplementary feeding, etc. basic beekeeping techniques and professional qualities.

3. Know how to adjust the balance between bees and climate. Adjusting the balance between bees and climate is actually a real management technique, just like business management. You must understand the basic beekeeping techniques as the basis, and then combine the local climate and temperature conditions to develop a set of four-season management techniques that suit you. After mastering the above operations, you can make targeted adjustments according to market demand. Basically, you can achieve easy and efficient beekeeping.

4. Prevent the beehive from overheating. In the process of beekeeping, the temperature that bees prefer is 20 to 30 degrees.