CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Is it safe and reliable to keep bees? (Is it safe and reliable to keep bees? Zhihu)

1. Why is it not recommended to keep bees at home?

It depends on where you live. It is definitely not realistic to live in a residential area. If you live in a small village at the foot of a mountain, you can consider raising a few boxes. First of all, bees need to collect nectar and pollen. The flowering time of various plants near the hillside is different, which provides timely nectar sources for bees. This is something that cities and ordinary rural areas cannot do.

In addition, bees also eat sugar during their dormant period, and the processing of bee products can be a nuisance to others. Therefore, most families do not raise bees at home. These are issues that cannot be ignored.

2. Do artificially farmed bees sting people?

The bee colony is at its strongest stage of the year because the bee colony in an artificial breeding environment is relatively stronger than that in the wild. Since there are enough bees, it is not surprising that the bees are too aggressive in attacking and stinging people.

It should be noted that a strong bee colony is also built on a stage with sufficient nectar and pollen sources. At this time, there are the most larvae. Beekeepers can also say that bees attack and sting people in order to protect the larvae and honey in the honeycomb.

Therefore, the stage when bees like to sting people the most is mainly concentrated in the middle of spring breeding. Once it reaches the late stage, the spring nectar and pollen sources are over, the bees in the colony that should swarm have also swarmed, and there are very few larvae and pupae inside. At this time, the bees will calm down and no longer like to attack and sting people.

Bees have a very sensitive sense of smell. Once they are exposed to some particularly irritating smells, although we humans are used to them and have little effect on them, for example, Fengyoujing, which can stun even mosquitoes, bees, as one of the insects, are naturally afraid that the bee colony will be affected. Therefore, it is not surprising that they attack and sting people to drive them away.

Some people have a strong sweat odor or a strong smell of farm manure on their bodies, and are particularly vulnerable to attacks by bees because these smells are really attractive to them.

Some people may say that if you move quickly at the entrance of a beehive, you will be attacked and stung by bees. In fact, this is not true. If so, do wasps fly faster? Why don't bees attack actively? Therefore, this statement is untenable. At present, only the above two situations are the most logical and have been proven by practice.

3. Is it illegal to keep bees?

Keeping bees is not illegal. It is part of the beekeepers' breeding business.

4. What are the risks of raising gourd bees?

There are great risks in breeding gourd bees, as their stings are highly poisonous. The gourd beehive is shaped like a gourd, but is generally much larger than a gourd. The largest beehive is one and a half meters long, and we call it a eight-bucket urn. This beehive is usually built on a cliff or a tall tree in a sheltered place.

Calabash wasps are very alert. Once they spot people or cows passing by, they will attack in groups. That is very scary. Even majestic bulls will be stung and flee. If a person is stung, it is very dangerous.

5. Aren’t you afraid of bee theft when you keep bees in the wild?

First, the possibility of bee theft in large apiaries is not high. Some beekeepers who chase flowers to steal honey may encounter bee theft, while fixed-site beekeeping is basically not prone to theft. The main reason is that fixed-site beekeeping is relatively simple to protect. Most beekeepers who chase flowers to steal honey choose to raise dogs to make noises and then check at night. This is effective in preventing bees from being stolen. In addition, you can turn on the lights all night, but this method can only be used for a short period of time. Once stolen, it is useless. Many friends may say that no one has stolen Italian bees, but if thieves can recognize Chinese bees and Italian bees, they may raise bees themselves.

Second: the jealousy of rural people. This is what the Bee Tribe says about rural people. The Bee Tribe grew up in rural areas, so they are more familiar with this kind of thing. The gap between the rich and the poor in rural areas is the smallest. Everyone has no money, but there is a group of people who can't stand others having something decent. Therefore, some bees in rural areas are stolen and destroyed not because they want to get bees or honey, but just want to destroy.

Third: Beekeeping in rural areas is generally not on a large scale, and most bees are caught from the mountains, so most of them are part-time. Many beekeepers do not spend a lot of time on management, nor do they waste too much time on beekeeping, so even if they are stolen, they will not care too much, and will not think of protecting themselves through legal means. When it comes to the theft of rural bees, some people just curse a few words, and some just sigh and think that's the end of it.

Fourth: The rural population is scattered, and some families even live alone in the deep mountains and forests. For thieves, they can steal whatever they want. If they are discovered, the owner has to be careful, and they may be slapped. Such a scattered lifestyle also makes it difficult for local relevant departments to manage.

These are probably a few situations where honey bees raised in rural areas are stolen. In the previous section, the Bee Tribe mentioned that dogs can be used for prevention, but for families living alone, even if the dog barks, they should be careful, after all, there is no one living around, and we don’t know the situation of the thief, so we should not go out to check easily to avoid accidents. If we are in this situation in a village, we can install cameras, just like the bee farm of the Bee Tribe is protected by installing cameras around it. After installing the cameras, the security level of the bee farm is quite high. Not only will the bees not be stolen, but even the beekeeping tools that were often stolen in the past will not be stolen.

Although the above methods can play a certain role in preventing bees from being stolen, this is only for some beekeepers with a financial foundation and some people who really want to engage in beekeeping. For some family farmers, the cost of installing a camera in rural areas is also a considerable expense, and not many people are willing to spend too much money to protect a few buckets of bees. Therefore, it should be said that it is a more difficult problem to prevent bees from being stolen during beekeeping. How do you prevent bees from being stolen during beekeeping? Do you have any tips on the problem of bee theft? Don't forget to share with netizens.

6. Is it safe to keep bees?

It's not safe! You get stung by bees when managing it, and it's hard to sell honey when you have it.

7. Can I raise bees on the roof? If so, what should I pay attention to?

Answer: Although beekeeping on the roof is feasible and should be said to be safer than on the ground, there are many factors to consider. We should pay attention to the nectar source, bee flight problems and so on. From the perspective of large-scale beekeeping, rooftop beekeeping is actually not advantageous, so if we want to raise bees on a large scale, it is recommended to raise them on the ground.