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

1. How to keep bees indoors?

Bees cannot be kept indoors because bees need to fly into the wild to collect pollen and nectar. They must be placed outdoors, preferably away from residences. When managing and sealing the boxes, do not use any cosmetics.

2. How to raise bees for apitherapy at home?

First, keep it away from light. Bees are impatient and photophilic. When they find themselves locked up, they often die of impatience. The bodies of impatience-dead bees are black. So after bee therapy, we must put the bee therapy box in a dark place, such as a drawer or a dark room. In this way, the bees will think it is night and stay quietly in the bee therapy box to make and eat honey.

Second: Feed them with food - rock sugar. Do not feed them with water. Bees are medical insects that are very particular about hygiene. In order to maintain the hygiene of their living environment, they excrete outside the hive. They would rather hold their stool than excrete it in the hive where they live. Bees often hold their stool like this, which will cause them to die of suffocation or get a big stomach disease or enteritis. Therefore, in order to prevent them from starving to death, only sugar is fed, not water, to reduce their excretion and supply them with energy so that they will not starve to death, and to extend the time they can be kept in the bee therapy box.

Third: The bees need a suitable temperature in the box.

The most suitable temperature for bees to survive is 15-25 degrees Celsius. Bees are cold-blooded animals. When a single bee is stationary, its body temperature is very close to the surrounding temperature. The critical temperature that Chinese bees and Italian bees can withstand is 10-13 degrees Celsius respectively. When the temperature drops to 13 degrees, the bees are frozen. Therefore, it is best to keep bees in our bee therapy box at around 20 degrees Celsius, because if the temperature is too low, the bees will freeze to death. If the temperature is too high, the bees will be excited, and their metabolism will be fast, which will shorten their lifespan and cause death. At around 20 degrees Celsius, the basic survival temperature of the bees is guaranteed without making them too excited.

3. How to keep bees by yourself?

I use a bucket to put a beehive in my home! Put some royal jelly at the mouth of the bucket to attract bees.

4. How can one raise bees at home alone?

1. Site selection

The bee farm should be located in a sunny place with clean and dry ground and surrounded by a large number of nectar-producing crops. For small-scale beekeeping, the garden in front of or behind the house can be used.

Apiary should not be built along the banks of larger rivers or lakes (a small river several dozen meters wide is fine) to avoid the bees being blown into the water and drowning when flying to the other side to collect honey; it should not be built under high-voltage lines, because electromagnetic waves will interfere with the bee colony, making the bees lost or restless; it should not be built near sugar factories or sugar workshops to avoid the bees flying to the workshops and being killed in large numbers; it should not be built in places with vibrations, such as steam hammer operations, next to large electric motors, and in mountain quarries; it should not be built in polluted places, such as manure yards, garbage stations, refineries, etc.; and it is also not suitable to build apiaries in low-lying and humid places.

2. Purchase of bee colonies

Beginners should buy 5 to 10 bee colonies for the first year to try raising them, and then raise more after gaining experience. It is best to buy bees in the spring when the bee colonies leave the room, and it is not suitable to buy bees in autumn. When buying bees, you should choose strong colonies, and buy colonies with 4 to 5 frames of bees in spring. The standard for a full frame of bees is that both sides of the honeycomb are covered with bees. If the honeycomb surface is sparse and not tightly covered, it cannot be considered a frame of bees.

5. How to keep bees at home?

1. Choose a site. The bee farm should be located in a place that is sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, with clean and dry ground and a large number of nectar-producing crops around. For small-scale beekeeping, the garden in front of or behind the house can be used. The bee farm should not be built along the banks of large rivers or lakes (a small river several dozen meters wide is fine) to prevent the bees from flying towards

6. What is the simplest way to keep bees at home?

Here are the easiest ways to keep bees at home

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, when choosing beehives, 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 production. 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.

7. If bees come to your home, how should you keep them?

To raise bees, you must first prepare the breeding equipment, then purchase the bee colonies, and then choose a good place to raise them. During the breeding process, you must do a good job of feeding and management.

1. Site selection

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. Selection of bee colonies

1. Purchase time: The best time to buy in the north is April to May. This is the breeding period of bee colonies, the selection is relatively stable, and the external environment is good, making it easy to raise bees successfully.

2. Selection method: Observe at the nest entrance. Those who are diligent in entering and exiting the nest and collect more pollen are generally lively and good. Then open the box for inspection. If the worker bees are quiet and not panicked, it means that the bee is gentle. If the queen bee is large, has thick feet, is tall and wide in chest, has a long and plump abdomen, is covered with dense hair, and lays eggs flexibly and quickly without panicking, it means that the queen bee is young and strong, and has strong egg-laying ability.

3. Arrangement of bee colonies: It depends on the size of the site, the number of bees and the season. There are four arrangements: single-box arrangement, double-box arrangement, staggered arrangement and triple-box arrangement.

3. Feeding

1. Supplementary feeding: artificial feeding when nectar sources are scarce. The methods are as follows: ① Supplementary feeding with honey. Honey can be diluted with 20% warm water (crystallized honey needs to be boiled with a little water). The diluted honey can be fed to the bees by gavage or poured into a frame feeder. ② Supplementary feeding with syrup. Syrup is made by adding 50% white sugar to water, which is heated and fully dissolved and then cooled to lukewarm. It is best to add 0.1% citric acid to the syrup to facilitate digestion and absorption. Brown sugar should not be used at this time.

2. Reward feeding: artificial feeding during the bee colony breeding period and bee production period. Generally, a small amount of 60% nectar or 50% syrup is given every other day in early spring, and then once a day as consumption increases. The time starts from 40 days before the nectar flow period until there is a large amount of honey and pollen from the outside world. Each frame of bees can be rewarded with 50-100 grams of syrup each time.

3. Feeding pollen: The purpose is to supplement protein feed. In the late winter and early spring, the pollen saved in the previous autumn can be supplemented, and soybean powder can also be used instead. The feeding method is as follows:

(1) Liquid feeding: Add 10 times the amount of syrup to the pollen, boil it, wait for it to cool, and then put it in a feeding container for feeding.

(2) Cake feeding. Add an equal amount of honey or syrup to pollen or pollen substitute, mix thoroughly, make into cakes, wrap them with plastic paper, open at both ends, and place them on the frame beam for bees to feed. This method is often used during cold snaps.

4. Feed water and salt: ① Water. Generally, each bee colony needs 200-300 ml of water per day. Put water in the feeder or put a wet towel on the gauze cover for the bees to collect water. ② Salt. Add 1% salt to the syrup.

IV. Management

1. Spring management: ① Promote bees to fly and excrete. Raise the temperature in the center of the nest to 33-35℃, provide sufficient nectar and pollen sources or reward feeding, open the box cover and insulation in time to allow them to fly out of the nest and excrete. ② Insulate the hive. After excretion, the bees enter the breeding period, so artificial insulation must be adopted. Compact the hive and make the colony dense. Raise multiple colonies in the same box, and keep the box warm inside and outside. In the north, it lasts until April to May.

2. Management during the honey flow period: ① Adjust and organize the honey collection group in the early stage. ② Maintain strong groups to collect honey. Control the queen bee's egg laying. Use a queen excluder to restrict the queen bee to one area of ​​the hive or the hive. To cut off the brood and collect honey, you can take out the queen bee and 1 to 2 honeycomb bees from the honey collection group 5 days before the big honey flow period to form another small group. The next day, give the honey collection group a mature queen cell, which can greatly increase the honey production. Pay attention to the management of small groups. For those weak groups that cannot collect honey, create conditions to promote the rapid development of the group. Under the premise of appropriate honey collection, we must do a good job of reproduction to replenish the group.

3. Management in autumn: ① Cultivate new queens and replace old and inferior queens. ② Cultivate overwintering bees of appropriate age. Overwintering bees of appropriate age refer to young bees that have emerged from their cells before overwintering, have only performed two or three excretion flights, have not done any feeding or collecting work, and have not secreted royal jelly. In order for overwintering bees to overwinter safely, the birth of young bees born after the nectar flow period must be controlled to maintain the strength of the bee colony. The method of control is to force the queen bee to stop laying eggs at a certain time during the nectar flow period. ③ Timely early termination of offspring. In the later stage of cultivating overwintering bees, first use honey and pollen to press the combs, and pour honey 2 to 3 times, so that the queen bee will stop laying. At the same time, move the bee colony to a cool place, expand the bee path by 1 time, and take out the pollen combs from the hive, and remove the insulation, so as to terminate offspring early.

4. Winter management: ① Adjust the nest door. The height of the nest door should be 6-7 mm and the width should be 60-70 mm. ② Prevent honey crystallization. Strengthen insulation, or stuff some wet cotton balls into the box through the nest door to reduce ventilation. ③ Wintering indoors in the north. The beehive should be moved indoors before the water freezes and the ground is not covered with snow. When moving indoors, the beehive should be 20 cm away from the wall indoors, and the first layer should be 40 cm away from the ground. The room temperature should be kept at 0-2℃, and the humidity should be kept between 75-80%.