CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to prevent ants when raising bees (How to prevent ants from entering the house when raising bees)

1. How to deal with ants and insects in the beekeeping area?

In the beekeeping industry, pests and diseases are the most troublesome problem for people. If some pests and diseases are not prevented and controlled in time, serious consequences will occur, which will have a great impact on the output of bee products and people's income. Wasps, nest insects and ants are the most common pests in beekeeping. Let's talk about how to deal with ants in the next few days.

1. Dealing with ant nests

1. Weeds are an important source of ants. When preventing and controlling bee and ant pests, you can clean up all the weeds around the beehive and raise the beehive appropriately. The height of the raise should not be less than ten centimeters.

2. If ants are found among the beehives, the beekeeper should first look for the ant nests near his beehives, use wooden stakes to make a few deep holes about 60 centimeters deep at the ant nests, then pour kerosene into the holes, and finally fill the holes with soil. This will completely eliminate the ants.

3. After discovering the ant nest, you can dig it up with a shovel, sprinkle some quicklime on it, and then spray some diluted solution of sodium sulfite. This can also help kill ants.

4. A simple way is to find the ant nest and pour boiling water on it.

2. Kill ants

1. Using the drug Mierling is also an important way to help honey bees control ants. This drug is not harmful to bees, but it can kill ants quickly. People can dilute the drug and spray it on the routes where ants travel and on their bodies, which can quickly eliminate ants.

2. Using medicine is also a good way to treat bee and ant pests. Termite cleaner is one of the commonly used medicines. Before using the medicine, you must first find the ant's nest, and then sprinkle the medicine directly in the ant's nest to kill the entire nest of ants.

3. Poison bait is a mixture of chemical agents and food bait that ants like to eat. According to the ant's feeding behavior, after a worker ant eats the poison bait, as long as it does not die within a short period of time, it can bring the poison bait into the ant nest, causing the death of other individuals, usually within seven days. However, ant pupae do not eat, so they may survive, making the ant removal incomplete.

3. Anti-ant

1. Ants are small animals that are afraid of water. Based on this characteristic, you can dig some small trenches around the beehive and add detergent water or water into them. You can also put a container on the four legs of the beehive and add water to the container. These two methods can prevent ants from entering the beehive, and the effect of preventing bee diseases and pests is more obvious.

2. Burn the eggshells with fire, grind them into powder, and sprinkle them near the beehive or ant nest to kill the ants.

3. Ants are afraid of common vegetables such as coriander and celery, which can drive away ants. (You can sprinkle some coriander seeds in the bee farm to grow more coriander)

4. Walnut leaves, tobacco, and Sichuan peppercorns can all help repel ants.

2. What should I do if there are a lot of ants in the beehive?

It may not be ants but nest insects. Nest insects are the larvae of wax moths. They like to drill into the nest cells and attack the honeycombs. In summer and autumn, the offspring of 1 to 2 female moths can destroy all the honeycombs stored in the super within 2 months. If they reproduce again, they can destroy all the stored honeycombs after 2 months, and even cause the bees to flee.

The key to preventing nest insects is to raise a strong colony. Make sure that "bees do not expose their honeycombs" to strengthen the colony's self-defense. When the colony is weak, the drone cells at the lower corners of the honeycomb should be removed to make the lower edge of the honeycomb arc-shaped, which is conducive to the bees to gather together to protect the honeycomb.

Regularly scrape the wax residue from the bottom of the box every half month, clean the wax tumors inside the box, and remove the breeding grounds of nest insects.

In the warehouse, the policy of “no exposed boxes of wax and no exposed jars of wax” should be adhered to, and fumigation with chemicals should be carried out in a timely manner.

The remaining combs and broken wax should be cleaned up at any time indoors and outdoors, and the old nest frames should be dewaxed and killed with boiling water.

3. How to prevent ants when keeping bees?

Methods for preventing ants in beekeeping:

1. If ants are found among the beehives, the beekeeper should first look for ant nests near his beehives and destroy them after finding them.

2. You can use wooden stakes to dig a few deep holes about 60 centimeters deep at the ant nest, then pour kerosene into them, and finally fill the holes with soil. This will completely eliminate the ants.

3. After you find an ant nest, you can also use a shovel to dig it up, sprinkle some quicklime on it, and then spray some diluted solution of sodium sulfite. This can also help kill ants.

4. While destroying ant nests, beekeepers must also carry out necessary treatments on their own beehives.

5. You can use wooden blocks to raise the four corners of the beehive, and then apply some tung oil or asphalt on the raised wooden blocks. This way, the ants will not enter the beehive after smelling the odor.

6. Using the drug ant killer is also an important way to help honey bees control ants. This drug is not harmful to bees, but it can kill ants quickly. People can dilute the drug and spray it on the routes where ants travel and on their bodies, which can quickly eliminate ants.