CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to divide bee colonies (how to divide bee colonies)

1. How to divide bee colonies?

When raising bees, if the bee colony is prosperous and has not been divided naturally, artificial division can be carried out. The method is as follows: prepare an empty beehive. At night, first check where the queen bee of the original bee colony is, then divide the beehive (including the bees) into two halves, move one half into the empty beehive, and keep the other half. Note! The one with the queen bee can be divided less, and the beehive without the queen bee is placed in the original place, and the beehive with the queen bee is moved to a place 300 to 400 meters away, and placed in a different direction from the original. After a period of time, the queen bee will automatically appear in the one without the queen bee. It is done.

2. How to artificially divide bees into different groups?

Artificial swarming is the process of using artificial queen breeding or natural queen cells to systematically extract some bees, brood combs and honey combs from strong colonies that have swarming fever, and organize a new bee colony to increase the number of the colony and prevent natural swarming.

There are two methods of artificial grouping: equal grouping and mixed grouping.

Equal swarming: It means to divide a bee colony into two equal colonies. For the two separated bee colonies, if the temperature is low, you can use a gate to divide the beehive into two, open the nest door of each, and keep the two colonies in the same hive. When the temperature is high and the honey and pollen source is good, you can use two beehives one box away from the original hive to divide the colony equally, divide the brood combs and bees equally, and lure an egg-laying queen into the queenless colony.

Mixed swarming: In the early stage of honey flow, in order to solve the contradiction between swarming and honey collection, 1-2 frames of mature brood combs with bees can be drawn from each strong group, and mixed to form a new bee colony of 4-6 frames of bees. After one or two days, a mature queen cell or an egg-laying queen can be lured into the new group. In this way, it will not affect the honey collection of the original group too much, and the new group can be used as a honey collection group during the peak honey collection period. In order to prevent the old bees from flying back to the original nest and the remaining number of bees is too small, more young bees should be shaken into the new group, or the nest door of the newly separated group should be blocked with paper or fresh grass leaves to let the bees bite it open and re-identify the nest.

3. How do bees divide buckets?

Bees can divide buckets like this

1. Bee barrels and beehives are both tools for cultivating honey. They look different but have the same function. There is not much difference in swarming. Both should be artificially swarmed in the spring when there are sufficient nectar plants, and before the bee colony shows swarming fever.

2. Before dividing the Chinese honey bees in barrels, artificially breeding queen bees is a very important step. You should choose a strong colony and then control the queen bee to lay eggs, let it produce larger eggs, and put them into the queen breeding colony for breeding. Only after the new queen bee is successfully bred, the bee colonies in the barrel can be divided.

3. When dividing the Chinese bees raised in barrels, you should first prepare a new beehive, then take out some of the honeycombs in the original beehive and move them to the new beehive, and move in a mature queen cell and a well-cultivated queen bee. Finally, close the hive door and observe whether the queen bee has moved into the queen cell the next day. If she has, the division is successful.

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