CATDOLL : CATDOLL: The latest technical regulations for bee breeding and management (the latest technical regulations for bee breeding and management)

1. What are the techniques and methods of beekeeping?

1. Choose beehives

A basic condition for raising bees is to choose suitable beehives. You should choose boxes made of solid materials and light texture. Since beehives are generally placed in the open air and bees spend most of their lives outdoors, a good environment must be provided.

2. Transfer bee colonies

First, prepare the live-frame beehive in advance, transfer the purchased bee colony or the wild trapped bees into the beehive, and generally put the honeycomb together, so that the bees can quickly adapt to the new environment and resume normal activities.

3. Subsidized feeding

During the period of honey-gathering, bees are fed supplementary food, usually starting with artificial feeding in the evening, such as pollen, sugar water, honey, etc. In winter, bees collect less honey, so the number of feedings needs to be increased. They can be fed once in the morning and once in the evening with diluted sugar water.

4. Planting plants

In the process of raising bees, a large number of flowers and plants, such as peonies, peonies, rape flowers, etc., can be planted around the site to provide sufficient nectar sources to prevent the bees from flying to distant places and reducing economic benefits.

2. What is the latest technology in beekeeping?

1. Live frame beekeeping

The honeycombs in the movable frame beehive are movable and can be exchanged with other bee colonies; the movable frame beehive can freely control the colony strength according to needs; and the movable frame beehive can cause almost zero harm to the bee colony when extracting honey. Therefore, it is recommended to use flexible and easy-to-manage movable frame beehives for beekeeping as much as possible.

2. Proper bee breeding

Honey bees have two most critical breeding periods: spring and autumn. The purpose of spring breeding is to quickly restore the colony's strength so that it can make the most of the abundant nectar resources in spring, while the purpose of autumn breeding is to encourage the colony to quickly cultivate a large number of overwintering bees of the right age so that the colony can survive the winter smoothly. In fact, both spring and autumn breeding are inseparable from reward feeding. The specific method is to feed the colony a small amount of honey water or syrup every night during the rapid breeding period of honey bees.

3. Breeding Queen Bee

The quality of a bee colony depends to a large extent on the quality of its queen bee. Experienced beekeepers are willing to spend time and energy on breeding queen bees. Currently, the most widely used artificial queen breeding technique is queen transferring. The specific operation is to first use a queen breeding stick to make a base out of beeswax, and then place the base into the bee colony for transformation. After the base is made, use a worm transferring needle to move in 1-2 day old worker bee larvae. Finally, the queen cells with larvae are introduced into the queen breeding colony to be fed by worker bees.

4. Artificial swarming

Swarming is the main way for bees to expand their population size. There are two swarming methods: natural swarming and artificial swarming. Natural swarming is to wait for the bee colony to swarm on its own and then collect the swarms, while artificial swarming can divide the bee colony into two or more according to the beekeeper's wishes. In fact, experienced beekeepers often perform artificial swarming because natural swarming of bee colonies is almost uncontrollable, and if the swarms are not collected in time, they are very likely to be lost.

5. Strictly prevent diseases

Disease prevention and control is the difficulty and key point in bee breeding. Once a disease breaks out, it can easily destroy even a large-scale apiary. The main diseases include foulbrood and sacbrood. The main parasites include bee mites (mainly harm Italian honey bees) and nest moths (mainly harm Chinese honey bees). The main enemies include wasps, spiders, ants, etc. Therefore, beekeepers must actively do a good job in disease prevention, and if the bee colony has already been diseased, it must be dealt with in a timely manner.

3. Bicolor bee breeding technology?

Beekeeping method of bicolor bees:

1. Feeding: Feeding is a key technology that must be mastered in beekeeping. It can be roughly divided into subsidized feeding and reward feeding. Subsidized feeding is to supplement the bee colony with the food necessary for survival, while reward feeding is to stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs and encourage worker bees to feed larvae.

2. Swarming: Swarming is the main way for bees to expand their population, which can be roughly divided into natural swarming and artificial swarming. Small-scale Chinese bee farming generally allows the bee colony to swarm naturally, while Italian bee farming and large-scale Chinese bee farming mostly use artificial swarming.

3. King introduction: King introduction refers to introducing a new queen to a queenless colony. In beekeeping production, it is inevitable that a bee colony will lose its queen unexpectedly. At this time, a new queen should be introduced to the colony. In addition, when the apiary introduces other queens, the king introduction technology should also be used to introduce the queen into the colony.

4. Combining colonies: Combining colonies means combining two or more colonies into one colony. For example, in early spring, two or more weak colonies can be artificially merged into a relatively strong production colony. In addition, when a bee colony loses its queen and has no value in forming an independent colony, it can also be merged into other colonies with a queen.

5. Disease prevention: Disease prevention and control is a skill that beekeepers must master. Once a bee colony is hit by a disease or insect pest, it will directly affect the benefits of beekeeping at the least, and may lead to the demise of the bee colony or even affect the entire bee farm in severe cases. In fact, many people's beekeeping failures are caused by inadequate disease prevention and control.

7. Bee colony management

1. Spring: Spring breeding is the focus of bee management in spring. Only when spring breeding is done well can the beekeeping benefits for the whole year be ensured. The specific method is to first determine the appropriate breeding time according to the local climate, and then insist on rewarding the bee colonies with feeding to promote rapid reproduction of the bee colonies.

2. Summer: Heatstroke prevention is the focus of bee management in summer. First, beekeepers must take out the honey combs and old honeycombs in the beehive to facilitate ventilation, and then put up awnings on the beehives to provide shade and sun protection. In extremely hot weather, cold water or ice cubes should be sprinkled to cool the beehives.

3. Autumn: Autumn breeding is the focus of bee management in autumn. The quality of autumn breeding is also a decisive factor in whether the bee colony can successfully overwinter. The reason is that autumn breeding can cultivate a large number of overwintering bees of the right age for the bee colony, and these overwintering bees are the basic conditions for the bee colony to successfully overwinter.

4. Winter: Overwintering is the focus of bee management in winter. First, the strength of a colony must be able to sustain until the following spring. Second, there must be enough overwintering feed in the colony. Third, the beehive insulation must be kept relatively cold rather than hot. Without any of these three, overwintering may fail.

8. Notes

1. When breeding bees, it is necessary to raise strong colonies as much as possible. The reason is that strong colonies are much more resistant to diseases and have much higher collecting capacity than weak colonies. The effective way to raise strong colonies is to supplement weak ones or to merge colonies.

2. In beekeeping, try to avoid swarm fever. The reason is that when swarm fever occurs in the bee colony, the production efficiency will be greatly reduced. Especially during the peak honey flow period, swarm fever has a very obvious impact on honey production.

3. In bee breeding, it is necessary to replace the old, weak, sick and disabled queen in time. The reason is that when the queen bee is not capable enough, the impact on the bee colony will be particularly obvious. Therefore, beekeepers must cultivate new queens in time and replace the old, weak, sick and disabled queens in time.

4. In beekeeping, it is necessary to strengthen the prevention and control of diseases and pests. The reason is that the outbreak of diseases and pests is almost devastating to the bee colony. Do not ignore prevention in normal times and wait until the outbreak of diseases and pests to take remedial measures.

4. Bee breeding management and methods?

1. Cultivate into a production group as soon as possible

For newly purchased bee colonies, timely prevent and treat bee mites and other bee diseases, keep the number of bees greater than the number of combs (very important, beginners like to add combs), and keep the colony strong and disease-free. When there is a lack of nectar and pollen sources in the outside world, supplement the feed, and then reward feeding every day or every other day to stimulate the queen bee to lay more eggs. Healthy worker bees are in high spirits and can raise more strong young bees. Frequent watering in the nest not only saves "labor", but also avoids freezing to death of water-collecting bees or causing illness to the colony due to sewage collected, and can quickly develop the colony into a production colony with supers. At the same time, without breaking up the strong colony, rear the queen, organize the supers for mating, and implement the combination of production, rearing the queen, and mating.

2. Strong colony super box transfer insects to raise queens

When the bee colony develops into a super colony, natural queen cells will often appear. At this time, just let nature take its course, slightly enlarge the opening of the queen cell, take out the larvae in the cell without stirring the royal jelly, and select one-day-old larvae to move into the cell. Beginners need to practice moving larvae several times to ensure that the larvae are not harmed. If they cannot be moved, they can temporarily use a natural cell and select the best queen to keep later.

Multiple natural queen cells (preferably artificially transplanted queen cells) can be used on one comb, and all queen cells on other combs should be destroyed. Put the queen-rearing comb into the super, and place larval combs and honey-pollen combs on both sides. It is best to add a double-layer queen excluder between the nest and the super, and add a gauze cover frame (without gauze) between the two boards, so that there is a certain space between the two queen excluders to reduce the impact of the old queen on the super.

3. Stack the third box to make a crossover box

The day before the new queen comes out, add another super, open the side door or the back door, add a queen excluder between the two supers, lift the honeycomb with queen cells into the new super (i.e. the third box), and then lift two honeycombs and place them on both sides of the honeycomb with the queen cells. When the young queen comes out three days later, remove the queen excluder between the mating box and the original box, replace it with a gauze cover and add a cloth, shake off the worker bees from the two queenless honeycombs, return them to the original group, and leave one honeycomb in the mating box as an independent mating group. Observe the egg-laying situation of the new king after 10 days. If it is normal, the new king has successfully mated.

4. Swarming to increase the colony

There are two methods to isolate the proliferating population:

1. Take the new queen colony out of the original box and move it to a new location. Then add a capped comb that is about to be released from the room. After 3 days, add a second capped comb to form a production colony as soon as possible.

2. Take out the old queen with two sealed honeycombs as a new colony, and shake in two worker honeycombs, and supplement and develop them as soon as possible to become a production colony. At the same time, remove the cloth covering the mating box and the original box, leaving the gauze. After 8-12 hours, spray the whole colony with white wine syrup (500g syrup added to two small cups of white wine), put the honeycomb with the new queen in the super, spray some white wine syrup, sprinkle the mating box, and cover the beehive. Observe the queen on the next day. If she is normal, swap the supers (or the queen enters the hive), and the colony will be successfully multiplied.

5. Beekeeping breeding technology?

1. Choose bee species: The adaptability of bee species in different places is different. It is recommended to keep your own species to ensure the purity of the bee species. Feed management: Mainly feed honey, and pollen can also be made into a paste for artificial feeding. Temperature management: Keep warm when the temperature is below 6℃. Prevention and control of diseases and pests: Prevention is the main thing. If diseases occur, they need to be dealt with in time.

2. When raising bees, you need to ensure that there is sufficient sugar feed at all times. The main feed for bees is honey, which is beneficial to prolong the growth cycle of bees and improve their physical fitness. Domestic bees have poor pollen collection ability, and basically the bee colonies are in a state of pollen shortage, which leads to the weak reproductive ability of Chinese bees. Therefore, they need to be fed pollen artificially. The pollen can be made into a paste for feeding, placed not far from the beehive, and let the bees move back to the beehive by themselves.

3. Before the bee colony hibernates, sufficient feed should be prepared. When the temperature is below 6°C, evenly spread the straw on the partitions in the beehive. After the temperature rises and stabilizes, in order to facilitate the growth and reproduction of the bees, all the straw can be removed according to the specific situation.

6. Chinese bee breeding technology and management?

The breeding site must be south-facing, dry and ventilated. The beehive must be tight and seamless. The next step is reasonable management, including bee species selection, queen bee management, group temperature control management, and bee colony feed management.

The last step is moderate production. Wait until the honey on the honeycomb is capped and mature before taking it. Only in this way can the honey be high-quality honey.