CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Do bees need to be fed in summer? (Do bees need to be fed in summer? Why?)

1. How to raise and manage bees during the dog days of summer?

The management of bee colonies during the dog days of summer is to prevent heatstroke and reduce temperature. If the temperature is too high, the workload of the worker bees will be too heavy, which may easily cause the death of a large number of worker bees. By setting up a shade shed and artificially spraying to reduce the temperature, the bee colonies can spend the summer safely. 1. Set up a shade shed or move it under a tree

People will take shelter from the sun under trees, so beehives should be exposed to the sun. If there is shade, you can move the beehives under the trees. If there is no shade, or the trees are too small, you need to build a shade shed. In fact, the cost is not high, and it can prevent rain and heat. If there are many beehives, you can still do this.

2. Feed with light salt water

A water feeder should be placed near the nest entrance to feed water or light salt water to replenish physical strength and prevent heatstroke. In summer, bees will constantly flap their wings to cool down, and at the same time, they will run to collect water to cool down. Collecting water is very hard work and will waste a lot of physical strength. In summer, they have to rely on artificial feeding. At this time, a lot of work will undoubtedly consume the life of the bees.

2. Do we need to feed water to Chinese bees in the hot summer?

If there is no water source nearby, the Chinese bees need to be fed water in the hot summer. Beekeepers generally choose a place with abundant flowering plants and close to water sources as a breeding base, which can reduce the time cost of management.

Some apiaries are close to nectar plants, but there is no water source nearby. In the hot summer and autumn, the bees have to be fed water.

3. How many times should we feed bees in summer?

Once a day.

1. When there is insufficient nectar from the outside, you can boil sugar and water to feed the bees. However, you should master the ratio of water to sugar during boiling. It is best to boil it in a one-to-one ratio. Stir constantly during boiling to allow the sugar to fully melt and then get syrup. The boiled syrup cannot be fed directly to the bees. It should be fed after it cools down naturally.

2. When feeding bees with syrup made of white sugar and water, it cannot be sprinkled directly on the bees' bodies or in the hive. It needs to be placed in a special feeder, and the feeding time should be chosen at night. If you feed white sugar and water during the day, bees will be stolen. After getting up early the next day after feeding white sugar and water, check whether the syrup in the feeder has been eaten up. If not, take it away immediately.

3. Sugar syrup boiled with water is generally not used as the staple food of bees. It is mostly an ideal choice for beekeepers to reward and relieve bee colonies. If bee colonies are fed with sugar and water for a long time, the bees in the colony will produce low-quality honey, which is particularly detrimental to the income of their own bee products.

4. How often should bees be fed in summer?

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Bees should be fed once every one to two days during the dog days.

The dog days of summer last for more than 40 days, which makes it hot and uncomfortable for bees. If scientific management is not adopted, the bee colony will suffer from severe summer decline, which will directly affect the bees' autumn reproduction and wintering.

To ensure that the bee colonies spend the summer safely, the following measures can be taken: Ensure sufficient feed: Before the beginning of the dog days, be sure to ensure that the bee colonies have sufficient feed. If molasses is insufficient, feed them with sugar water at a ratio of 2:1; Shade the beehive:

If conditions permit, you can cover the beehive with a shade net, or place leafy branches on the beehive to provide shade; especially when the temperature is very high in the dog days of summer, open the hive door as wide as possible, sprinkle water on the beehive to cool it down, and keep the bees with enough drinking water throughout the day. It is best to use a hive door feeder.

5. Can reward feeding of bees in summer speed up reproduction?

Yes! In summer, the external nectar source is relatively scarce, especially after midsummer. If the worker bees cannot collect enough nectar, it will also affect the queen bee's egg-laying capacity. At this time, you can use dilute syrup for reward feeding to stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs. Reward feeding should be carried out every evening when the temperature drops. This will make the queen bee mistakenly believe that the external nectar source is abundant and easy to collect, so that a large number of new worker bees will be laid and reproduced. For bee colonies with insufficient honey storage, use concentrated syrup for supplementary feeding before reward feeding.

6. What medicine should be fed to bees in summer?

Pollen slurry can be fed in summer, but it is best not to feed it.

1. There is no need to feed pollen to Chinese bees in summer.

2. Chinese bees begin to swarm in September and October every year, but the time of swarming will vary due to different climates in different places.

3. The earliest sign of swarming is that the bee colony will build a large number of drone cells to breed drones. The short-term sign of swarming is that the bee colony builds queen cells at the bottom of the honeycomb to breed new queens. The emergency sign of swarming is that the queen cells have been capped and are gradually maturing.

Due to seasonal factors, spring is here and flowers are blooming, which is suitable for bees to reproduce and store honey in large numbers. The bee colony reaches its peak, and preparations must be made for swarming to avoid swarming losses.

In the summer, when the weather is hot and the external pollen and nectar sources decrease, most bees will rest in the hive, so the attendance of the worker bees does not seem to be very active. At this time, the hive should be given supplementary feeding artificially.

7. How long do bees need to be fed during the summer?

It takes about 1 month to feed.

The bee colony "summering" literally means that the bees spend the hot summer. The summer temperature is high, there is a lack of nectar and pollen sources, and there are many enemies. It is the most difficult period for the bee colony. However, if there is sufficient pollen source, the bee colony can still reproduce normally.

Before the arrival of summer, new queen bees should be bred using spring nectar sources for queen replacement. The new queen has a strong enthusiasm for production and will not have a long period of egg-laying abortion in the hot summer. The hottest period of each year is called the dog days, which is from mid-July to mid-August. At this time, there is basically no nectar source to collect from the outside world, but if someone is planting corn nearby, the worker bees will still be very active in collecting pollen. Where there is pollen, there will be eggs. When the pollen source is good, artificial rewards can be given to feed dilute syrup, and the queen bee will still lay eggs actively during the hot dog days.

8. When is the best time to feed bees in summer?

It is more suitable to feed bees in the evening in summer.

This is because the sun has not completely set during this time period (5pm to 7pm), which leaves time for the bees to fly out and return to the nest safely due to the excitement after feeding, and it is also conducive to the bees to find the feeding point of the group smoothly; if the temperature is high at this time, it can also prevent the bees from being damaged by heat due to the accumulation of heat energy after sucking syrup and being unable to vent it; in the evening, most of the bees have returned to the nest one after another, and there is no need to worry about bee theft. If the bees are still working at this time, it means that it may rain the next day, and you must hurry to collect the honey. The bees' emotions will not shift to stealing the honey stored in other groups, so you can feed them with confidence. In addition, if the number of bee colonies is small and only a small amount of syrup is needed for reward feeding, you can also choose to feed in the early morning, but you must calculate the time and remove the feeder in time.

9. Do bees need to be fed sugar in summer?

Don't just focus on feeding. You need to see how much honey your bees have stored. If there is no nectar source, you need to feed them according to the local season, what flowers bloom at what time, and how much sugar water to feed. When the honey storage decreases, the bees will naturally stop building tombstones. Summer should be the time to reduce tombstones, not the time to build tombstones.