CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to keep bees alive (How to keep bees alive)

1. How to raise bees?

1. Selection of bee colonies: First of all, you need to choose bee colonies that are adapted to the local climate and other conditions according to your living environment. In this way, the survival rate of bees can be basically guaranteed.

2. Selection of beehives: Because beehives need to be placed outdoors, try to choose high-quality and sturdy ones.

3. Bee colony environment: Choose a cooler environment to avoid direct sunlight. It is better if there are flowers and plants around, which is convenient for bees to collect honey and is conducive to improving the quality of honey output. Remember, bee colonies must not be released on rainy days, otherwise a large number of bees will die.

4. Feeding: In addition to releasing the bees to collect honey on their own, they also need to be fed with honey, sugar water, etc. every night. In winter, it is necessary to increase artificial feeding efforts to maintain the survival of the bees and increase honey production.

5. Finally, you must pay attention to your own safety when raising bees, because bees are dangerous and you need to make appropriate protective preparations.

2. What is beekeeping?

Use wooden boxes to make bee nests, and release them to places with many flowers to collect pollen and make honey. If it is rainy or not in the flowering season, you can put some sugar in the entrance and exit of the bees.

3. How to keep the boxed bees purchased at the school gate?

Step/Method 1

Sprinkle some millet in the box you bought and place it in an environment with a room temperature of 20℃ to 25℃ for about 15 days;

Step/Method 2

Generally, the small bees in the box are true fly eggs, and if you look closely, you can see the small fly pupae;

Step/Method 3

Put the fly pupae into a cardboard box, place it at room temperature (22-25℃) where it is not exposed to direct sunlight, feed it regularly, and it will take about 15 days for them to hatch.

4. How to raise bees?

The following methods can be used to raise bees: choose a breeding place that is far away from factories, mines, roads, residential areas and noisy areas, and has clean water and sufficient nectar sources nearby. Secondly, choose a suitable beehive or build your own beehive (the beehive must be off the ground), and then purchase healthy and docile bees as the bee species. When the bees are familiar with the surrounding environment, let them forage for pollen naturally (feed them appropriately during this period).

5. 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.

6. How to raise bees?

Beekeeping knowledge:

Preliminary understanding: Before beekeeping, let's first learn some knowledge about bees. At present, there are 7 million colonies of bees in my country, of which 90% are European bees imported from abroad, including Italian bees and Northeast black bees, and 10% are Chinese bees. Italian bees, referred to as Italian bees. They are widely raised in North China and Northeast China. Northeast black bees are an intermediate type of European black bees. They have strong reproductive capacity and good wintering performance in cold areas. But they cannot maintain strong colonies in areas with low latitudes. Chinese bees are referred to as Chinese bees, which are suitable for living in Northeast, Northwest, North China, East China, Southwest and other regions of my country.

Social insects: A group of bees usually consists of a queen bee, 1% drones, and 99% worker bees. The queen bee, drones, and worker bees each have their own specialties in the group, work together, and depend on each other. The queen bee is the female bee in the bee colony. Under normal circumstances, there is only one queen bee in a group of bees. The queen bee's duty is to lay eggs. After the queen bee mates once, the sperm stored in the spermatheca can meet the needs of reproduction throughout her life. She starts laying eggs 2 to 3 days after mating. A queen bee can lay 1,500 to 2,000 eggs a day and night.

Understanding bee eggs: One is a fertilized egg, which can develop into a worker bee, and the other is an unfertilized egg, which can develop into a drone. The queen bee develops from the fertilized eggs in the queen cell. The queen cell is also called the queen cell. The eggs in the queen cell grow up eating royal jelly, so they develop into the queen bee.

Queen bee breeding: The breeding of new queen bees is usually carried out in autumn (usually in summer) to prepare for high production in the next year. When two queen bees appear in a bee colony, they will fight each other until only one queen bee is left. Worker bees are incompletely developed female bees in the bee colony. After the worker bee larvae hatch, they are fed royal jelly by adult worker bees for the first three days, and then fed a mixture of honey and pollen from the fourth day.

Drone characteristics: Drones have no working instincts and specialize in mating with virgin queens. Most drones begin to fly at 7 to 10 days old and become sexually mature at 12 days old. Mating usually takes place between 1 and 5 p.m. on sunny days.

Development stage: Every bee goes through four stages of development: egg, larva, pupa, and adult bee. After the queen bee lays the fertilized eggs in the hive, worker bees will instinctively secrete some royal jelly around the eggs within 6 hours.

Bee breeding equipment:

Beehive: Beehive is also known as honeycomb, which is the place where bees live, reproduce and store food. Beehive consists of a large cover, straw curtain, cover cloth, sub-cover, honeycomb, partition, queen excluder and other parts. There are thousands of neatly arranged and interconnected hexagonal cells on both sides of the honeycomb.

Honeycomb: Honeycomb fixed on a wooden frame is called a frame of honeycomb. According to the amount of honey, pollen, and larvae on the honeycomb, it is called honeycomb, pollen comb, and brood comb. According to the age of the brood comb, it is divided into egg comb, worm comb, capped comb, and empty comb. The beehive with 10 frames of honeycomb is the most widely used standard beehive. The hive can be expanded in time by stacking supers.

Bee path: The distance between each honeycomb is called the bee path.

Queen excluder: Queen excluder is used to separate the insect breeding area and the honey storage area, which is beneficial to the maturation and collection of honey and improves production efficiency.

Additional information:

Beekeeping is the process of raising bees to obtain products such as honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen, beeswax, bee pupae and bee venom. It is included in the category of livestock in a broad sense, so bees are also livestock in a broad sense. The history of beekeeping is thousands of years old, and the use of honey began in the fishing and hunting era.

In the Middle Stone Age in 7000 BC, there are pictures of women climbing vines to collect honey in the murals in Spain. In the temples of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt in 2600 BC, there are reliefs of beekeepers blowing smoke into the hive to drive away the bees. This is the earliest historical fact of beekeeping in the world. Historians and researchers have inferred from the results of studying oracle bones that beekeeping has existed in my country since the Shang Dynasty.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia of Beekeeping

7. How to keep the bees bought at the school gate?

Normal feeding:

Remove the dark brown bee eggs the size of rice grains, and place them in a honeycomb-like container (i.e. with small holes). Place them inside and cover them with honey as food, but be careful not to suffocate them. They can be hatched when the temperature is suitable.

Take out the bees, carefully tear a small slit in the beeswax film with your hands, and the queen bee baby can crawl out. After it comes out, put it in a container filled with moist sand and feed it with royal jelly (remember, not ordinary honey). When it matures, it can lay eggs after mating with the male bee.

In vitro breeding:

Put some moist soil in the tube. If there is no soil, you can also use a napkin with a little water. Put bee eggs in the tube (there are usually bee eggs in it). The eggs will hatch at about 15-20 degrees Celsius. After hatching, you can feed them with honey.

8. How to feed bees?

How to feed bees? First of all, before answering this question, it is necessary to explain that how to feed bees and how to raise bees are two different meanings, and cannot be fully answered by how to raise bees. It is necessary to select a detail from the overall picture of how to raise bees and answer it. This is the main content that the questioner needs to answer. Therefore, before answering this question, it is necessary to omit other management answers and focus on how to feed bees in the process of beekeeping.

When we beekeepers raise bees, there are generally two situations in feeding bees. One is reward feeding and the other is supplementary feeding. Both feeding methods and purposes are feeding bees, but the effects and purposes are not exactly the same.

First of all, let me explain the following reward feeding. Reward feeding is a feeding method when there is enough sugar in the bee colony. The purpose is to make the bee colony shine with greater benefits and energy, and to obtain greater profit space with the smallest investment. For example, during the breeding season, when there is enough sugar in the bee colony, in order to make the bees secrete more royal jelly and feed the queen bee to produce more eggs, the bee colony is fed with a small amount of syrup every day or every other day, artificially creating an illusion that the bees think that there is a flower season outside and nectar is flowing. Because bees will only be excited to secrete more royal jelly when there is nectar flowing outside, and the queen bee will only lay more eggs after getting a large amount of nutritious royal jelly, so that the bee colony can recover and develop quickly. This is the purpose and method of beekeepers rewarding bees. However, there are various methods of reward feeding, such as the method of feeding syrup water every day or every other day with a feeder, and the method of cutting the honey cap with a sealed large sugar comb, which are all called reward feeding. But remember that it is not easy to reward too much at a time, and adopt a small and frequent method, including the method of cutting the sealed large sugar comb. Only in this way can we achieve the purpose of rewarding high efficiency of feeding. If too much syrup is rewarded, it will form a situation where sugar suppresses the brood, which will not only fail to achieve the purpose of rewarding rapid development, but will make reproduction slower. This is the method and purpose of how to reward feeding.

As the purpose and method of supplementary feeding, the purpose of supplementary feeding is to supplement the feed sugar as soon as possible when the feed sugar in the bee colony is seriously insufficient. The main purpose of supplementary feeding of feed sugar is not to stimulate the rapid development of the bee colony, but to stabilize the bee colony and prevent it from going out for a large number of activities when the bee colony feed is sufficient (except for the breeding period), such as the feeding of wintering sugar during the period of weaning the queen cage and before wintering. The time and frequency of supplementary feeding should be shortened, so as to achieve the best purpose and effect. Because in the period of weaning the queen cage, the main purpose is to stimulate and control the bees' activities as little as possible, so as to better preserve the strength of the bees. This is the method and purpose of supplementary feeding. As long as the above two methods of feeding bees are well controlled, they will achieve good benefits and purposes in our beekeeping process.

9. What is the best beekeeping technology in 2020?

Beekeeping method: When breeding, add water to the cage in time. The water quality should be clean. Empty beehives should be hung according to the number of female bees. This is for nesting. In addition, there should be enough cabbage worms, otherwise they will start to eat the larvae. After the first generation of adult bees emerge, the beehive can be moved out of the cage.