CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to prevent wasps when raising bees (How to prevent wasp bites when raising bees)

1. Is it good to use nets to prevent hornets when raising bees?

Very good, the specific method is: pull a net diagonally at the entrance of the hive so that bees can go in and out, and wasps cannot get close to the entrance. As long as wasps cannot catch bees at the entrance of the hive, the bees that fly out will not be caught by wasps. First of all, the beehives should be placed in rows, and you can use a net to stick fish. Fix one side of the fish net on the beehive, and you can adjust it according to the width of the fish net. Make sure that the other side can be diagonally pulled on the ground about one foot away from the hive entrance. If it is too narrow, just nail a few nails on the honey wall. As long as the net can be fixed, it will be fine. I'm sorry that I'm not raising bees at home now, so I can't take a video, otherwise you will understand it at a glance.

The net must completely protect the entrance of the hive, and be sure to prevent wasps from getting close. We also need to pay attention to whether there are gaps behind the two ends. Wasps are also smart and will do everything they can to find an entrance. Once they find one, they will drill into the entrance of the nest and bite the bees, and then try to rush out and tear the net.

2. How to prevent hornets from carrying bees?

First, we can cover the bee exit with a piece of plastic net with a mesh size of 0.5, so that bees can go in and out, but wasps cannot. The bees can avoid the wasps' sight and fly out.

Second, people have to stand guard next to the beehive and use wooden boards to kill hornets that eat bees. Generally, after the hornets that come to eat bees are killed, no other hornets will come back for a long time. This is quite troublesome. If there are too many bees, you may not be able to handle it. Moreover, if you don't kill the hornet immediately, you may be stung easily.

Third, put on protective clothing, catch a few wasps and apply a kind of potion (available on Taobao), then release the wasps, and soon there will be no more wasps to harass you. As long as the potion is applied to the wasps, the whole colony will die after they fly back.

Fourth, if the apiary is harassed by hornets, you can find a professional hornet finder to remove the hornet's nest. This is the best way to prevent hornet harassment.

In short, if you want to raise bees but don't want your profits to be affected by being harassed by hornets, the best way is to find a professional hornet finder to remove the hornet's nest when the hornets come to harass the bees. This is the best way.

3. How to prevent hornets in front of beehives?

1. Net bag method. If the number is quite small, you can use tools to manually kill them. The beekeeper waits in the apiary and kills the wasps when he finds them.

2. Trapping method. Wasps not only like to eat bees, but also like to eat the corpses of their own kind. Generally, the carnivorous habit of wasps is used to facilitate swatting. Golden ring wasps can be trapped with the dead bodies of their companions.

3. Using fire or DDT cotton balls are very effective. Once you find a hornet's nest, you can use the hanging line method to track the hornets.

4. The pesticide application method works best. When catching wasps, you can use an insect net to catch a few wasps alive, and then apply poisonous honey containing pesticides on their bodies. After the wasps with poisonous honey fly back to the nest, the wasps in the same nest will come over to lick the honey with poisonous honey, and the wasps that like to eat the poisonous honey will die soon.

4. What should I do if hornets come into the beehive?

1. Reduce the size of the nest entrance: There are many types of hornets and only large hornets can threaten the bee colony. Therefore, reducing the size of the nest entrance of the beehive is the most effective way to prevent hornets from invading the hive. Alternatively, you can install a baffle at the entrance of the beehive and adjust the nest entrance through the baffle to allow only bees to enter. However, this method does not work for hornets that kill bees near the nest entrance.

2. Manual swatting: When hornets kill bees near the beehive, beekeepers must swat them in time. Once the hornets succeed, they will return to the nest and lead a large number of hornets in the same nest to hunt. However, beekeepers must take necessary anti-sting measures when swatting hornets. Being stung by these large hornets can cause unbearable pain at best, and can cause anaphylactic shock and even life-threatening in severe cases.

3. Destroy the beehive: Hornets, like bees, are typical social insects that live in nests. Therefore, if conditions permit, you can destroy the large-scale beehives near the apiary. For example, you can burn the beehive in the evening with a long bamboo pole tied with flammable materials, or use a fire hose to directly flush away the bees and the nest together with the bees. But no matter what you do, you must take necessary anti-stinging measures.

4. Poisoning with drugs: After killing bees, hornets will bring the dead bees back to the hive to feed their larvae. When you encounter hornets invading the bee colony, you can use tools such as insect nets to catch the hornets alive, then tie poisoned meat to the hornets and release them back to the nest in the evening. In this way, the hornets in the same nest will be poisoned to death due to eating poisonous food. You can also use a long bamboo pole to stuff poisoned cotton balls into the hornet's nest.