CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What should be paid attention to in beekeeping in spring? (What should be paid attention to in beekeeping in spring)

1. What is the best way to attract bees in spring?

Use beeswax as bait. Beeswax is not a necessary condition, but proper use in actual bee luring can greatly increase the chance of bees coming.

Bee colonies will give priority to places where they have lived before. In the natural environment, places where bee colonies have lived before will leave behind combs, which are made of beeswax secreted by worker bees.

Therefore, for scout bees, where there is beeswax, they can use their sense of smell to preliminarily judge that "this is a good place". After confirming it through field reconnaissance, they will bring the bee colony there.

2. Do bees still need to be fed sugar water in spring?

Spring is here, flowers are blooming, and bees are starting to move around. At this time, the bees no longer need to be fed sugar water, because the flowers contain nectar and the bees will not starve. Sugar water is only used during the transition period from the off-season.

3. Beekeeping 24 solar terms and beekeeping house four solar terms?

1. Beginning of Spring

All things in the world are coming back to life. Honey bees are no exception. The vitality in their bodies surges. The queen begins to lay eggs, and the circle of eggs gradually grows larger. The cauliflower from the previous year is in full bloom now, with a lot of pollen. It is necessary to cut and cap the honey in time, add nest foundation, and feed sugar as a reward. The queen likes to lay eggs on new combs. A new comb can basically be full of eggs in two days and nights. We strive to develop 4-6 combs in early April to harvest lychees. With good management, three batches of bees can be born. This time is very precious.

2. Rainwater

It is drizzling in the sky. But it does not affect the bees' steps to welcome the spring. Occasionally, cold air will arrive. Pay attention to cold prevention. Keeping warm is the key at this time. The flowers are blooming, and the bee colonies are active. Pollen and honey can be collected. It can be described as three different days.

3. Waking of Insects

Before daybreak in the morning, bees bring back pollen. After a month of careful care, the bee colony has produced the first batch of brood, and the queen continues to lay eggs in the hive. The consumption of honey and pollen is relatively large during this period. Although Chinese bees save on feed, they must have enough honey and pollen during the development stage. The weather is hot and cold, and they must keep warm. There must be more bees than combs. For weak colonies, they must use supplementary brood that is about to hatch, so as to quickly strengthen the weak colony.

4. Spring Equinox

The male bees begin to leave the hive. Try to replace the queen with a new one before the end of March. The new queen is the main reason for the high yield of lychee honey. And in my humble opinion, I think the king in early spring is the best in the year. It is also very suitable to start artificial colonization at this time. Natural enemies such as swallows, dragonflies, and wasps have little effect on the queen's test flight and mating.

5. Qingming Festival

Lychees are blooming and longans are in bud. This is the largest source of nectar in Guangdong, and a bumper harvest is in sight. But the weather is often not good. It rains continuously. During this period, you must pay attention to the losses caused by swarming. After days of rain, as long as the weather is better, many Chinese bees will naturally swarm regardless of whether the queen cells are mature or not. You must be very careful.

6. Grain Rain

Various flowers are blooming all over the mountains. This is the best time to raise bees throughout the year. The weather is warm and there is plenty of pollen and honey. It is the best time to expand the scale and develop the colony.

7. Beginning of Summer

The hot summer is coming. After picking lychees, the bee colony will retreat a little. But at this time, the yellow cow wood is blooming and the Chinese tallow tree is about to bloom. Try to keep a batch of bees to pick small-leaf eucalyptus. At the same time, diseases and insect pests are also at high risk at this time. Middle cysts and nest worms are stumbling blocks that hinder the development of the bee colony. Prevention is better than cure. Change the boxes frequently. It is better to have fewer combs than too many. Having more combs than bees is a taboo for Chinese bees.

8. Grain Full

Typhoons and rainstorms are the main characters. During the continuous rainy days, a large number of worker bees have nothing to do. They can only build the queen cells, which can be seen outside the hive. If there are worker bees biting the nest door after a long rain and the weather is clear, it is very likely that they want to swarm. Be prepared to deal with it.

9. Grain in Ear

The small-leaf eucalyptus is in bloom. The hotter the weather, the more sugar it secretes. It can be shaken every 5-7 days. Unripe honey has many bubbles, is prone to sores, and cannot be stored for a long time. It is recommended to seal the small-leaf eucalyptus honey as much as possible before shaking it. The period of high honey flow is often the best time for bee breeding. Breeding a batch of new honey is of immeasurable value for safely surviving the summer.

10. Summer Solstice

The temperature is high, there is sugar and less powder. The eucalyptus is still blooming. But

4. It’s almost the beginning of spring. Can a few hundred bees survive?

Yes, as long as they are bees that have survived the winter. One is better than another. It is said that one spring bee is better than three, and three autumn bees are better than half. Don't be short of honey. When breeding bees, don't feed too much. If they can't finish the honey, the bees will fight and it will be miserable. As long as you pay attention to keeping warm, you can thrive.

5. How often do bees need to be fed in the spring?

In addition, bee colonies consume a lot of pollen to feed larvae during the spring breeding period. When nectar sources are scarce in early spring, pollen should be fed every 2 to 3 days. Reward feeding during the spring breeding period is generally carried out in the evening or at night. When feeding, just put the feed in the feeder, but it must be fed continuously and in small amounts. Continuous means that it should be fed once a day during the spring breeding period, and small amounts mean that the feeding amount should be such that there is a little honey on the comb and the egg circle is not pressed.

6. Three tips for bees to reproduce quickly in winter?

Factors Affecting the Rapid Reproduction of Honeybees

1

Selecting high-quality queen bees

As the main breeder in a bee colony, the quality of the queen bee is very important for the rapid reproduction of our bee colony. It can be said to be an important factor that determines the rapid reproduction of our bee colony. So how should we choose the queen bee? Mainly consider the innate factors and the acquired factors.

First, the queen bee's ancestors are of high quality, which ensures the queen bee's high-quality inheritance. We can select relatively strong and excellent bee colonies in our own apiary as the mother colonies for breeding queen bees, and select excellent bee colonies as the father colonies to breed queen bees; second, we can ensure the quality of queen bees in the colony by purchasing high-quality queen bees from agricultural institutions or professional breeding institutions; third, we must pay attention to the queen bee being strong and having strong egg-laying ability. If we do these things well, our queen bee problem can be solved.

2

Maintain a strong group

Many of our new beekeeping friends are too impatient and blindly increase the nest foundation and swarm the bees. In the end, the bee colony not only fails to reproduce quickly, but also causes diseases because the colony is too weak. A strong bee colony not only has a certain degree of defense against diseases, but also cannot be easily harmed by ordinary enemies. To give a simple example, wasps are a common natural enemy of honey bees, but for a strong colony, due to the large number of guard bees, the worker bees protect the colony by attacking together. Generally, a single wasp cannot harm such a colony, but if it is a weak colony, a wasp may harm the entire colony. A strong bee colony can provide sufficient nutrients for the queen bee and is also quite perfect for the feeding of young bees. It can be seen that maintaining a strong colony is important in the beekeeping process.

3

Plenty of powder

Many of our new beekeeping friends like to take all the honey when collecting it, and at the same time they don’t pay attention to feeding. This causes the worker bees to abandon the larvae, the queen bee to reduce or even stop laying eggs when the bee colony is short of honey, and in severe cases, the bee colony may even flee. Therefore, when collecting honey, we must pay attention to whether there is enough honey in the bee colony, and if there are a large number of larvae, we must also pay attention to whether there is enough pollen. At the same time, we must also pay attention to feeding reward feeds and supplementary feeds scientifically.

4

Replace the old spleen and clean the house promptly

Chinese bees have a characteristic, that is, they like to bite the spleen, and they like new spleens and hate old spleens. Those of us who have raised Chinese bees can find that there are often wax scraps in the beehives of Chinese bees. If these wax scraps are not cleaned up, they can easily become a breeding ground for nest worms. Nest worms can be said to be the biggest enemy of Chinese bees. In the past, they can be said to have brought great disasters to the development of Chinese bee breeding in my country.

For Chinese bee breeding, it is best to replace the honeycombs once every six months or so, and clean the wax scraps in the bee colony frequently. The benefits of replacing new honeycombs are that they reduce the possibility of worker bees biting the honeycombs, and secondly, the new nests are larger, and the worker bees bred are also larger and stronger than the worker bees in small hives. Their honey collection and feeding abilities far exceed those of worker bees produced in small hives.

5

Proper honeycomb ratio

Chinese bees are social creatures and like to stay together, so during the breeding process, we should not blindly increase the nest foundation just to make the bee colony look bigger, which will only prevent the larvae in the bee colony from getting adequate feeding and insulation. Therefore, in Chinese bee breeding, we should try to make the number of bees slightly more than the number of honeycombs or the number of bees and honeycombs proportional. If the number of bees and honeycombs in a bee colony is proportional, not only will the speed of honey collection be fast, but the time for honey to mature will also be advanced, and the honey production will also be increased, especially in winter, which will help the bee colony to survive the winter safely, and in summer, it can also better protect the bee colony and help it survive the summer safely.

6

Good summer management

Many friends only pay attention to the bees' wintering, and completely ignore that summer is also a disaster period for bees. If the summer overcoming work is not done well, the damage to the bees will not be worse than the wintering. Therefore, in the summer, we should pay attention to shading the bees and provide sufficient water. For the natural enemies of bees, if they are too serious, we have to remove them manually.

New method for bee breeding in spring

1

Tight spleen spring

During the spring breeding season, choose a dry, sunny and windproof site, and place two beehives side by side. In the evening without wind, feed each group with 250-300 ml of sugar water or honey diluted with water. After 2 hours, the bees will be excited and dispersed, and the temperature in the box will rise, so you can shake the bees and tighten the spleen. No matter how many spleens there are in the original group, only one can be selected and all the extra spleens are removed to make the bees more than the spleen. This can promote the queen bee to lay eggs quickly. Generally, the queen bee can lay eggs 1-3 days after tightening the spleen, preventing the attack of low temperature and cold wave in early spring, so that the egg-laying circle will not be frozen, and the bees will develop healthily. At the same time, it also allows some bees to rest and prolong their lifespan.

2

Reward Feeding

After tightening the combs, reward feeding is carried out from the bottom of the hive every night. Sugar water or honey water is put into the feeder at the bottom of the hive and extended into the hive through the nest door. This does not require opening the hive, and the operation is also convenient. The temperature in the hive is kept constant. The first feeding can be slightly more, generally 350-400 ml per group. In the future, it depends on the number of bees and the size of the egg-laying circle. It is appropriate to have a small amount of horn honey on the combs. Feed frequently, once every night without interruption, and the feeding amount should not be too much.

3

Add artificial pollen

In early spring, there is very little pollen naturally. If many queen bees start to lay eggs, in order to ensure the pollen supply in the bee colony and expand the egg-laying circle, artificial pollen combs should be added (natural pollen combs are better if available). The first comb added should have an empty nest cell on one side and a pollen cell on the other side. The method of adding combs depends on the relationship between the bees and the combs. For a colony with a large number of bees, the pollen side should face inward; for a colony with an average number of bees, the nest cell side should face inward. When the queen bee has laid eggs in the empty nest cell of the artificial pollen comb and has eaten half of the artificial pollen in the first pollen comb, a second artificial pollen comb should be added next to the first pollen comb. The third and fourth combs can be added in this way. In this way, the colony develops rapidly, and a strong colony can be obtained in time for production.

What to feed bees to speed up reproduction

1

Letting bees eat more fresh nectar can improve their reproductive capacity. If you want bees to have a large amount of fresh nectar to eat, you must ensure that there is sufficient nectar source from the outside. If the external nectar source is not good, you can transfer the breeding in time and move the apiary to a place with abundant nectar source.

2

When there is insufficient nectar from the outside, artificial feeding is needed to improve the reproductive capacity of bees. It is best to feed them a mixture of pollen and honey produced locally. Such feed is safe, nutritious, and easy for bees in the hive to accept. As long as they can get enough nutrition, they can provide a lot of food for the queen bee, and the queen bee's egg-laying ability will also be enhanced, followed by an increase in the reproduction rate of the hive.

3

The reproduction of bees is not just the queen bee's job, it also has a lot to do with the worker bees. Therefore, the hive should be insulated and cooled in time to provide the worker bees with a good living environment. They will have strong working ability, and the larvae in the bee colony will have sufficient food and grow quickly, which is most effective for the reproduction of the bee colony.