CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are some tips for keeping bees? (What are some tips for keeping bees?)

1. What are the technical knowledge and methods of beekeeping?

Step/Method 1

Collecting bees: Collecting bees mainly includes trapping wild bee colonies and collecting wild bee colonies. Trapping wild bee colonies mainly includes luring beehives and digging luring holes due to different methods. To collect wild bee colonies, you must first find the wild bee nests or clustered bee colonies. In addition, after the bee colony naturally swarms, the beekeeper is also required to be able to collect the swarmed bees in time.

Step/Method 2

Transferring bees: Transferring bees refers to transferring new bee colonies or native bee colonies into live-frame beehives. When transferring native bee colonies, all the honeycombs in the original beehives must be cut off and tied to the frames of the live-frame beehives. New bee colonies can transfer to the hives with empty honeycombs or with honeycombs borrowed from other bee colonies. However, they must be fed in time after transfer to help the colonies quickly stabilize in the hive.

Step/Method 3

Swarming: Swarming can be divided into natural swarming and artificial swarming due to different methods. Natural swarming is to wait for the bee colony to swarm on its own and then capture the swarm in time, while artificial swarming means that a bee colony is split into multiple colonies in a certain way. In addition, artificial swarming can be divided into queenless swarming, queen cell swarming, queen swarming, etc. due to different methods.

Step/Method 4

Merging colonies: Merging colonies means merging two or more bee colonies into one. The principle is to merge queenless colonies into queeny colonies, weak colonies into strong colonies, and sick colonies into healthy colonies. Due to different operations, there are two ways of merging colonies: direct and indirect. Direct merging is simple to operate but the bees are prone to fighting, while indirect merging is more troublesome but relatively safe.

Step/Method 5

Queen replacement: Queen replacement refers to the introduction of a new queen bee into a bee colony after it loses its queen. There are two methods of queen replacement: direct and indirect. Direct queen replacement is simple but prone to worker bees surrounding the queen, while indirect queen replacement is more complicated but much safer. In particular, when introducing high-quality queen bees, it is recommended to use the relatively safe indirect queen replacement method.

Step/Method 6

Disease prevention: Bee disease and pest control is the highlight of beekeeping production. In fact, in order to achieve high beekeeping yields, disease and pest control must be done well. For example, during the peak period of disease and pests, it is necessary to treat diseases if there are any, and prevent diseases if there are none. In addition, beehives, nest frames and other beekeeping tools must be disinfected regularly and wax scraps, bee corpses and other debris accumulated at the bottom of the hive must be cleaned up in time.

Step/Method 7

Feeding: Feeding technology is a key technology that must be mastered in bee breeding. There are three types of feeding, namely, supplementary feeding, reward feeding and soothing feeding, depending on the purpose. Subsidized feeding is to provide the bee colony with food to sustain its survival, reward feeding is to stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs and encourage worker bees to raise larvae, and soothing feeding is to quickly stabilize the panicked bee colony.

Step/Method 8

Queen breeding: Queen breeding technology is a technique that must be mastered when breeding high-quality queen bees. Due to different operations, there are mainly two methods: artificial selection and artificial queen breeding. Artificial selection refers to the artificial selection of bee colonies with excellent genetic characteristics as the population, while artificial queen breeding is to artificially make queen cells with beeswax and then use worm transfer needles to move in larvae to breed queen bees on a large scale.

2. How to raise bees?

1. Let the bees fly properly. Every spring is a critical period for bee reproduction. During the winter, bees will accumulate a lot of garbage in their intestines, which is not conducive to the growth and reproduction of bees. You can choose to put the beehive in the sun in sunny weather with a temperature above ten degrees to encourage the bees to fly. During the flight, the garbage in their bodies will be excreted.

2. The heat preservation of the beehive is very important. The spring, the breeding season of bees, is a time when the weather and temperature are changeable. Especially in the early spring, the outside temperature is relatively low and cannot reach the temperature required for the growth of bee larvae. At this time, farmers need to heat their beehives. The simplest way to keep warm is to surround the beehive with straw or cover it with a layer of plastic film. In addition, farmers should avoid opening and closing the nest door frequently in early spring, otherwise the heat in the beehive will be lost.

3. Queen breeding and swarming are beneficial to the reproduction of bees. Most of the queens in the spring bee colonies are the queens bred in the previous year. After two seasons of egg-laying, the peak egg-laying period of this queen is basically over. It is best for farmers to do queen breeding and swarming early, so as to greatly increase the number of bee colonies and bees on the basis of bee reproduction.

3. Tips and methods for raising bees?

1. Before we raise bees, we need to determine the number of bees we want to raise. Do not force raising too many bees. Honey production is actually closely related to the ability of the bees, and it is not completely proportional to the number of bees. We need to raise strong bees. Generally, strong bees are bred in the spring. It is necessary to control the growth of the bees at this time. This is the key.

2. When we raise bees, we need to add combs and expand the nests in a timely manner. This is also quite critical. Of course, we can also control the queen bee's egg-laying, which is also possible. Only in this way can we create bees with stronger abilities and collect more pollen.

3. When we raise bees, we need to provide them with certain amounts of feeding. Don’t think that we can rely on the bees to produce honey on their own. That is definitely not possible. We need to supplement the bees with protein, which can make the bees’ physique better and create more honey.

4. When we raise bees, we also need to control the number of septum combs and not cut them off in large numbers, as this will easily lead to a significant reduction in the subsequent bee output. It is best to choose an appropriate amount, which can increase the output of the bees and thus obtain high returns.

5. When we raise bees, we will definitely encounter some bad weather. In such weather, we must try our best to ensure the living environment of the bees. Never let the bees out on rainy days, as this will easily lead to the death of a large number of bees. This is what we need to know.

6. Careful care is required to ensure that bees can collect pollen normally during the flowering season. If there are too few flowers around, we can also choose to move them to an appropriate location. Don't sit and wait, as that will only make the bees go to far away places to collect pollen, which will not produce high yields.

4. Beekeeping knowledge and techniques?

1. The bees raised are mostly Italian honey bees and Chinese honey bees. Italian honey bees have strong colonies and are good at using large quantities of nectar sources. Chinese honey bees are highly adaptable and good at using sporadic nectar sources.

2. Beekeeping requires beehives, bee hats, bee brooms and other tools. Beehives are the most important and basic tools.

3. When raising bees, you should choose a site with abundant and relatively continuous nectar sources around it. The surrounding environment should not be noisy, full of enemies or seriously polluted.

5. How to raise bees?

Beekeeping knowledge:

Preliminary understanding: Before beekeeping, let's first learn some knowledge about bees. At present, there are 7 million colonies of bees in my country, of which 90% are European bees imported from abroad, including Italian bees and Northeast black bees, and 10% are Chinese bees. Italian bees, referred to as Italian bees. They are widely raised in North China and Northeast China. Northeast black bees are an intermediate type of European black bees. They have strong reproductive capacity and good wintering performance in cold areas. But they cannot maintain strong colonies in areas with low latitudes. Chinese bees are referred to as Chinese bees, which are suitable for living in Northeast, Northwest, North China, East China, Southwest and other regions of my country.

Social insects: A group of bees usually consists of a queen bee, 1% drones, and 99% worker bees. The queen bee, drones, and worker bees each have their own specialties in the group, work together, and depend on each other. The queen bee is the female bee in the bee colony. Under normal circumstances, there is only one queen bee in a group of bees. The queen bee's duty is to lay eggs. After the queen bee mates once, the sperm stored in the spermatheca can meet the needs of reproduction throughout her life. She starts laying eggs 2 to 3 days after mating. A queen bee can lay 1,500 to 2,000 eggs a day and night.

Understanding bee eggs: One is a fertilized egg, which can develop into a worker bee, and the other is an unfertilized egg, which can develop into a drone. The queen bee develops from the fertilized eggs in the queen cell. The queen cell is also called the queen cell. The eggs in the queen cell grow up eating royal jelly, so they develop into the queen bee.

Queen bee breeding: The breeding of new queen bees is usually carried out in autumn (usually in summer) to prepare for high production in the next year. When two queen bees appear in a bee colony, they will fight each other until only one queen bee is left. Worker bees are incompletely developed female bees in the bee colony. After the worker bee larvae hatch, they are fed royal jelly by adult worker bees for the first three days, and then fed a mixture of honey and pollen from the fourth day.

Drone characteristics: Drones have no working instincts and specialize in mating with virgin queens. Most drones begin to fly at 7 to 10 days old and become sexually mature at 12 days old. Mating usually takes place between 1 and 5 p.m. on sunny days.

Development stage: Every bee goes through four stages of development: egg, larva, pupa, and adult bee. After the queen bee lays the fertilized eggs in the hive, worker bees will instinctively secrete some royal jelly around the eggs within 6 hours.

Bee breeding equipment:

Beehive: Beehive is also known as honeycomb, which is the place where bees live, reproduce and store food. Beehive consists of a large cover, straw curtain, cover cloth, sub-cover, honeycomb, partition, queen excluder and other parts. There are thousands of neatly arranged and interconnected hexagonal cells on both sides of the honeycomb.

Honeycomb: Honeycomb fixed on a wooden frame is called a frame of honeycomb. According to the amount of honey, pollen, and larvae on the honeycomb, it is called honeycomb, pollen comb, and brood comb. According to the age of the brood comb, it is divided into egg comb, worm comb, capped comb, and empty comb. The beehive with 10 frames of honeycomb is the most widely used standard beehive. The hive can be expanded in time by stacking supers.

Bee path: The distance between each honeycomb is called the bee path.

Queen excluder: Queen excluder is used to separate the insect breeding area and the honey storage area, which is beneficial to the maturation and collection of honey and improves production efficiency.

Additional information:

Beekeeping is the process of raising bees to obtain products such as honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen, beeswax, bee pupae and bee venom. It is included in the category of livestock in a broad sense, so bees are also livestock in a broad sense. The history of beekeeping is thousands of years old, and the use of honey began in the fishing and hunting era.

In the Middle Stone Age in 7000 BC, there are pictures of women climbing vines to collect honey in the murals in Spain. In the temples of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt in 2600 BC, there are reliefs of beekeepers blowing smoke into the hive to drive away the bees. This is the earliest historical fact of beekeeping in the world. Historians and researchers have inferred from the results of studying oracle bones that beekeeping has existed in my country since the Shang Dynasty.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia of Beekeeping