CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are the disadvantages and advantages of raising bees? (What are the disadvantages and advantages of raising bees?)

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of beekeeping with small beehives?

Advantages: Small beehives are easy to manage thanks to the movable honeycombs. For example, when the strength of the bee colony is uneven, the strong colony can be adjusted to make up for the weak colony, or the colony strength can be concentrated during the honey flow period to make use of the nectar source. In short, the movable frame beehive can freely control the colony strength. In addition, the movable bottom beehive is also very advantageous when checking the queen or swarming.

Disadvantages: In fact, the bee colony in a small beehive is not as natural as in a traditional beehive. In other words, in a traditional beehive, the bee colony builds honeycombs completely according to its own habits. Therefore, it is easier to develop into a super-strong colony when there is no disease or insect damage. The movable frame beehive changes this habit of the bee colony.

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of backyard beekeeping?

advantage:

1. Reduce labor costs Traditional beekeeping requires almost no human intervention in the bee colony. The bees live freely. Human operation only requires cutting honey. It can be said that the traditional beekeeping method can reduce labor costs, and beekeepers can do their own work.

2. The bee colony reproduces quickly. These are the advantages of traditional breeding.

3. Strong resistance of bee colonies The resistance of bee colonies includes resistance to external climate change and resistance to diseases and insect pests. The resistance of traditional bee colonies is significantly better than that of modern live frame farming.

shortcoming:

1. It is impossible to control the bees in the bee colony. They like to split and escape, which is visible to everyone. With the live frame breeding method, abnormal flora may be found in daily flora inspections. Please take preventive measures in advance. However, these are things that traditional bee colonies cannot detect and control.

2. The inconvenience of checking and inspecting bee colonies is a major defect of traditional Chinese beekeeping. If the bee colonies cannot be fully inspected with combs, the problems of the bee colonies cannot be discovered, and there is no way to deal with problematic bee colonies in time. It also limits the limitations of various operations. It can be said that this is one of the biggest shortcomings of traditional breeding.

3. What are the disadvantages of long-term beekeeping?

The downside is: long-term lack of communication with outsiders makes thinking slow and people feel lonely

Beekeeping, or bee breeding, is the business of artificially raising bees and obtaining their products including honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen, beeswax, bee pupae and bee venom. It is included in the broad sense of livestock production, so in a broad sense, bees are also livestock.

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of learning beekeeping for beginners?

Many beginners have no breeding foundation and can only learn step by step from books and videos. Therefore, they can only breed traditional beehives first and then come to the cross-beehive. Scientific breeding is the key to the success of modern beekeeping.

5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of long-term beekeeping?

The advantage of long-term beekeeping is that we can eat the honey we brew at home. We can also ensure that the honey is pure and real honey.

The advantage of long-term beekeeping is that you don’t have to spend money to buy it yourself. You can also make money by beekeeping and make a small profit by selling honey. But there are also disadvantages to long-term beekeeping. Because bees are flying all over the sky, it will cause trouble to our lives and inconvenience to our lives.

6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of beekeeping?

The benefits are:

1. Reduce labor costs Traditional beekeeping requires almost no human intervention in the bee colony. The bees live freely. Human operation only requires cutting honey. It can be said that the traditional beekeeping method can reduce labor costs, and beekeepers can do their own work.

The disadvantages are:

1. It is impossible to control the bees in the bee colony. They like to split and escape, which is visible to everyone. With the live frame breeding method, abnormal flora may be found in daily flora inspections. Please take preventive measures in advance. However, these are things that traditional bee colonies cannot detect and control.

7. Beekeeping techniques and existing problems?

The most commonly raised bees are Italian honey bees and Chinese honey bees. The advantages of Italian honey bees (Apis mellifera, Apis chinensis) are strong colonies and their ability to utilize large nectar sources, while their disadvantages are that they are susceptible to harm from bee mites and have poor adaptability to my country's natural environment. The advantages of Chinese honey bees (Apis chinensis, Apis cerana) are strong adaptability and their ability to utilize scattered nectar sources, while their disadvantages are that they are susceptible to harm from nest insects and their honey production is far less than that of Italian honey bees. Therefore, when choosing a bee species, you must make comprehensive considerations based on your actual situation.

2. Beekeeping Tools

The main tools for beekeeping include beehives, bee bonnets, bee brooms, etc., but the most important and basic tool is the beehive. At present, there are two main types of beehives used by beekeepers in my country. One is the traditional beehive used when breeding Chinese honey bees, such as round barrel beehives, square barrel beehives, lattice beehives, etc. The other is the movable frame beehive introduced together with the Italian bees. Here we recommend that you try to use movable frame beehives for beekeeping, because movable frame beehives have incomparable advantages over traditional beehives in many aspects.

3. Beekeeping Site

Beekeeping must choose a suitable site to achieve high yields, which is especially important for fixed-point breeding of Chinese honey bees. When choosing a site, the first thing to consider is whether there is an abundant and relatively continuous nectar source nearby. In fact, beekeeping in a place where there is not enough nectar source nearby will not be beneficial at all. However, for Italian honey bees that can chase flowers and honey, there is no need to consider the issue of nectar source. In addition, the beekeeping site should not be built in a noisy environment, where there are many enemies or serious pollution.

4. Bee colony management

Bee colony management is the top priority in beekeeping. In fact, the economic benefits of beekeeping also mainly depend on the quality of management. For example, in order to increase honey production during the natural swarming period, natural swarming of the bee colony should be prevented as much as possible. For bee colonies that are too weak, the reasons should be found out or they should be merged into other colonies. If the honey storage in the bee colony is insufficient and there is no nectar source to be collected, the bee colony should be supplemented with feed in time. In short, we must find ways to ensure that the bee colony always has sufficient feed in the hive, a strong and healthy state.

5. Disease prevention and control

Beekeeping, like other breeding, cannot be separated from disease prevention and control. Once a bee colony is hit by a disease or insect pest, it will affect the output and quality of bee products at the very least, and in severe cases it may lead to the extinction of the bee colony and even affect the entire bee colony. The main diseases include sac brood disease, paralysis, chalk disease, and creeping bee disease. The main parasites include bee mites (mainly harming Italian honey bees), nest moths (mainly harming Chinese honey bees), etc. The main enemies include wasps, ants, frogs, etc.

6. Notes

1. The selection of bee species is the key to raising good bees. Italian honey bees are suitable for breeding in plains with simple terrain and concentrated nectar sources, while Chinese honey bees are suitable for breeding in mountainous areas with complex terrain and scattered nectar sources.

2. A strong colony is the basis for high-yield beekeeping. This is because a strong colony can not only improve the resistance of bees to diseases and the natural environment, but also improve the efficiency of the bee colony in collecting nectar sources and the output of bee products.

3. Bee colony management is the key to raising bees well. In fact, all management work is carried out around the living habits of bees. Therefore, before raising bees, you must have a comprehensive understanding of the living habits of bees.

8. Is it okay to keep bees at home?

It is good to raise bees so that you can drink fresh honey. We raise bees at home. Bees are very hardworking little guys. They go out to collect pollen every day when the flowers bloom. The pollen they collect becomes sweet honey in my mouth. Bees can help us digest, prevent colds, and long-term use can also improve the complexion and brighten the skin, so it is good to raise bees at home.