CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are the conditions and requirements for raising bees? (What are the conditions and requirements for raising bees?)

1. Can bees be raised under an unsealed tin shed?

It is not okay to keep honey under a tin shed. Because the tin shed will heat up when exposed to the sun, and the house under the shed will also heat up, which is not conducive to the preservation of honey. Honey should be placed in a relatively cool place.

Conditions required for beekeeping

Site conditions

There should be sufficient main nectar sources and auxiliary nectar and pollen sources within a radius of 2.5 kilometers around the site, and the main and auxiliary nectar and pollen sources should be appropriately matched; the site should be selected on a south-facing hillside with sufficient sunlight, backed by high mountains and natural shade above, with southerly winds in summer and northerly winds blocked in winter, and the soil should be fertile, with vigorous growth of nectar plants, a long flowering period, sufficient water and convenient transportation.

2. What are the ten elements of beekeeping?

1. Flowering plants rich in nectar are necessary conditions and things to pay attention to in beekeeping. There should be a large number of flowering plants around the beekeeping site for the bees to collect nectar and obtain food. If there are too few nectar sources, it will not be possible to obtain a large amount of honey, pollen, propolis and other foods that bees need.

A apiary that is fixed in one place should have one or two main flowering plants throughout the year, as well as more scattered flowering plants to meet the food and reproduction needs of the bee colony.

2. There are also many requirements for the conditions and precautions of the beekeeping site. Generally, it should be sunny and sheltered from the wind, with high terrain, dry ground, and suitable temperature and humidity.

High and cold mountainous areas with low temperatures, valleys where strong winds often occur, swampy areas with accumulated water, deserts without shade in summer, hillsides, etc. are not suitable as fixed places for beekeeping.

The environment should be relatively quiet and have good natural water sources near the bee farm, but the water source should not be too close to the nectar source to avoid hindering the collection or drowning and causing casualties. It is also not suitable to set up a bee farm near processing plants, cattle farms, sheep farms, or places where there are many bee enemies.

3. In order to quickly increase the number of bee colonies and honey production and prevent the spread of diseases between bee colonies, it is important to ensure that the fixed bee breeding site is at a certain distance from the surrounding apiaries.

When the bee population is large, the distance between beehives should be appropriately lengthened, or the terrain and plants should be used as natural markers for the bees to return to the nest, so that the bees can easily identify and return to the nest, so as to avoid the bees returning to the wrong home after collecting honey.

4. When there are few flowering plants, bee theft should be noted. The main reasons for bee theft are usually too long inspection time, insufficient honey in the nest, honey spilled outside when feeding, too few bees and too many honeycombs in the nest, too large nest door, cracks in the box wall, etc.

To prevent bee theft, be sure to take out the empty combs before the end of the flowering season to keep the bees densely packed and with sufficient honey. Try to open the boxes for inspection as little as possible and keep the nest door closed.

Preventing bee theft is much easier than stopping it. As long as we strengthen prevention, it will be reduced or prevented from happening.

5. Bees should also pay attention to diseases during their growth process, generally including infectious diseases, non-infectious diseases and invasive diseases.

Non-infectious diseases are caused by climate, feeding and environmental conditions and are not contagious. They mainly include jujube flower disease, diarrhea, nectar and pollen poisoning and pesticide poisoning.

Infectious diseases are mainly caused by bacteria, fungi and viruses, and are generally manifested as chalk disease, rotten brood disease, paratyphoid fever, etc.

Invasive diseases are caused by parasites, ladybugs and insect parasites. Common manifestations include tick disease, humpback flies, flesh flies and ground gall diseases.

For example, in the case of humpback fly disease, this fly is small and active. It sneaks into the beehive and lays an egg in the uncovered larval house. The larvae will hatch in about three or four hours and erode the body of the bee larvae. After six or seven days, the humpback fly larvae will break away from the dead bee larvae, bite open the nest cells and fall to the ground of the beehive. They will hide in the debris at the bottom of the box and become pupae. After ten days, they will become adults. They will continue to lay eggs and harm the larvae. This will repeat repeatedly, causing the bee colony to become restless or escape in severe cases.

6. Bees have many natural enemies throughout their lives, including nest worms, centipedes, robber flies, wasps, and birds such as tits, honey buzzards, honey dogs, hedgehogs, etc. You should pay more attention to this and take more precautions in normal times.

3. How to raise hardworking little bees?

The conditions necessary for beekeeping are that there must be a certain source of pollen and honey within three kilometers of where you want to keep the bees. The place where you keep bees cannot be too high, and it is best to have an independent space so as not to affect others. The most important thing is that you have to have an adventurous heart, especially like bees, and especially want to produce the purest honey yourself. Then you can buy a group to try.

The basic tools for beekeeping include beehives, nest frames, small partitions, and queen excluders. The basic protection includes gloves and bee caps. These are the most basic tools for beekeeping. You can buy a set online. You can buy other beekeeping tools after you have raised bees. Another one is bees. You can find a group in the mountains. It is best to buy a small group at the bee farm to practice. Amateurs are best to raise Chinese bees.

When you just bought the bees, don't rush to open the box or the hive door. Let the bees be quiet for a while, about an hour before opening the hive door, and then be sure to put on the queen excluder. Feed them with 1:1 sugar water at night for three consecutive nights. Don't open the box during the day and disturb them as little as possible. On the third day, when pollen is added and bees start to come in and out, and there are guard bees at the door, you can remove the queen excluder. At this time, the bee colony is generally stable, but you still need to disturb them as little as possible.

It will be normal in about a week. You need to be patient to keep bees. You need to learn more techniques and learn more from experienced beekeepers. Keeping bees is difficult at first, but it will become easier as you learn. However, I still want to remind you that people with trypophobia and severe allergies to bee venom should not keep bees.

4. How to keep bees well?

In order to raise bees well, some key measures must be taken to achieve twice the result with half the effort. 1. Choose suitable bee species. Different bee species have different biological characteristics and production performance, and the same bee species has different performance under different geographical environments and nectar sources. Therefore, in beekeeping production, it is necessary to select high-quality bee species that have been selected to increase the output of bee products. A bee farm should not raise a bee species for a long time to avoid the decline of the production performance of the bee species, but should regularly introduce and change species. 2. Select and breed excellent queen bees. The quality of queen bees is mainly determined by two aspects: one is that the queen bee is young, and the other is that the queen bee is strong. Most young queen bees lay eggs actively, lay a lot of eggs, and lay eggs quickly. The queen bee is strong, its newborn is heavy, has many ovarian tubes, moves steadily, lays many eggs per day, lays eggs quickly and orderly, expands spirally, and lays eggs in the middle of the room eye. It does not lay drone eggs in the worker bee room for two or even three years, does not like to build a platform, does not like to swarm, and has a strong regularity in the time of stopping and starting egg laying. It has the inherent characteristics of this variety or group breeding. 3. Adequate honey, pollen and feed Adequate honey, pollen and feed, in a broad sense, means sufficient food. Food is the source of nutrition for bees' life, reproduction, honey syrup and beeswax to make honeycombs. To keep bees well, they must have sufficient food, which is especially important in the season when external nectar sources are scarce and during the wintering period. 4. Strong bee colonies A strong bee colony means that it can maintain a relatively strong skirt at all times of the year. Strong colonies overwinter, strong colonies multiply in spring, and strong colonies are put into production, which are the basic measures for high-yield beekeeping. Only with a strong bee colony can the mortality rate of overwintering bees be reduced, a strong production colony can be cultivated early in early spring, the ability of the bee colony to resist various diseases can be improved, strong and disease-free bee individuals can be cultivated, and the yield of bee products can be maximized. 5. Healthy bee colonies Healthy bee colonies are the guarantee of high yield in beekeeping. Some beekeepers only pursue the yield of bee products one-sidedly, but do not pay attention to the prevention and diagnosis of bee diseases. Once the bees are sick, even the strongest bee colonies may quickly decline or even the whole colony will be destroyed, which seriously affects the yield of bee products. Therefore, if you want to raise bees well, you must pay attention to the prevention and treatment of bee diseases, and follow the principle of preventing diseases before they occur and treating them early. Only by strengthening the prevention and treatment of bee diseases and ensuring that the bee colonies are healthy and disease-free can we lay a good foundation for high bee production.

5. What are the techniques and methods of beekeeping?

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.