CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to keep bees

1. How to raise bees?

1. Selection of bee colonies: First of all, you need to choose bee colonies that are adapted to the local climate and other conditions according to your living environment. In this way, the survival rate of bees can be basically guaranteed.

2. Selection of beehives: Because beehives need to be placed outdoors, try to choose high-quality and sturdy ones.

3. Bee colony environment: Choose a cooler environment to avoid direct sunlight. It is better if there are flowers and plants around, which is convenient for bees to collect honey and is conducive to improving the quality of honey output. Remember, bee colonies must not be released on rainy days, otherwise a large number of bees will die.

4. Feeding: In addition to releasing the bees to collect honey on their own, they also need to be fed with honey, sugar water, etc. every night. In winter, it is necessary to increase artificial feeding efforts to maintain the survival of the bees and increase honey production.

5. Finally, you must pay attention to your own safety when raising bees, because bees are dangerous and you need to make appropriate protective preparations.

2. 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.

3. How to manage bees if they are not fed?

To raise domestic bees, you need to master beekeeping knowledge first: If a group of bees loses its queen, or replaces a low-quality queen with a good queen, when introducing a new queen to the group, they often surround the queen or even bite the new queen to death. When introducing a queen to a group of bees, first soak the queen to be introduced in water, or spray it with a sprayer, and then put it into the bee colony. Because the queen bee is covered with water, she either stays still or moves slowly. At this time, many worker bees come over and lick the water off the queen bee. After the queen bee is wet, its own smell will temporarily disappear, and the worker bees will not reject the introduced queen bee as an outsider. Individual bees have the nature of "compassion" for their own kind. When one or more bees are wet, many bees will lick the water off the wet bees; after the water dries, the foreign bees, or the queen bee, have the same smell as the bee colony. This method of introducing a queen bee, whether it is a new queen or an old queen, has been successful. The queen bee and bee colony used here are all Italian bees or their hybrids. The Northeast black bee was not used for the experiment. The Northeast black bee is very good at rejecting the queen. By the way, if you take one honeycomb to supplement another group, or if two groups are merged, the principle of the new queen is to spray all the bees on the honeycomb to be added and then merge. If both sides are sprayed, it will be safer. To increase the yield, the first thing to do is to improve the breed. Introduce high-yield queens, buy high-yield mothers, and use their high-yield and good-quality genes. Order mature queen cells from high-yield farms. Create conditions for the queen breeding group: ① The queen breeding group must be strong. If it is not strong, use a house to strengthen it; ② The nutrition must not only be sufficient, but also good. A group that lacks honey and pollen cannot breed a good queen; ③ All dragonflies must be eliminated. In a group with hidden, the new king is often malnourished, and even has broken wings and legs; ④ Feed every night to improve the enthusiasm of the group, encourage the workers to spit more nectar, and the young have good nutrition; ⑤ The number of queen cells for breeding queens should not be too many (it should be around 30), because if there are too many queen cells, the nutrition will be dispersed and the quality of the new queen will be poor; ⑥ Use compound insect transfer. First move the larger insects, clamp them out after 24 hours and then move the larvae in, so that there is more royal jelly in the cells and the quality of the new queen is good; ⑦ After the queen cells are sealed, they should be carefully inspected. The queen cells that are sealed too early, too late, improperly bent, and short should be removed, leaving only the good queen cells. For the new queens bred by the above method, after one and a half months of inspection, the queens with high royal jelly production, good genetic performance, strong fertility, and good disease resistance and stress resistance are selected as the female parent, and then hybridization and queen breeding are carried out. In the process of queen breeding, great attention should also be paid to the cultivation of males. Early spring breeding in time to avoid that the reproduction cannot catch up with the flowering period. Due to the renewal of rapeseed varieties, especially the warming of winter climate, rapeseed blooms early, and the group reproduction cannot catch up with the flowering period. The spring breeding is advanced from around the beginning of spring to before the Great Cold, so that the group reproduction can be synchronized with the flowering period. However, early spring breeding will make the spring breeding the coldest period of the year, so it is required that the group must be strong, the feed must be excellent, the management must be diligent, and the warmth must be good. Improve the queen's egg-laying ability. Change the traditional practice of only breeding spring queens to breeding new queens in all seasons throughout the year, and eliminate old and inferior queens in time. Because the new queen has strong vitality, plump body, high egg-laying enthusiasm, large egg circle, strong cold resistance, and stops laying eggs later, more queens of wintering age can be bred in autumn breeding. According to experiments, with the same group strength, new queens can breed 80%-120% more queens than old queens for wintering, which can lay the foundation for strong group breeding in spring the following year.

4. How to raise big bees?

Preparation:

1. Investigate the nectar source: nectar source is the basis of beekeeping production. Before deciding to raise bees, you must find out the types, areas, flowering periods, etc. of the relevant nectar plants;

2. Purchase bee colonies: When purchasing bee colonies, you must choose the type of bees according to the local nectar source, climate and other conditions. The best time to purchase bee colonies is in early spring, when the temperature rises and tends to be stable, which is conducive to the reproduction of bee colonies;

3. Prevent bee stings;

4. Prepare all beekeeping tools: make or buy them as needed, such as bee nets, scrapers, bee brooms, feeders, sprayers, nest foundations, honey shakers, beehives and nest frames;

Bee species selection:

1. Determine your beekeeping area: Different regions raise different species of bees, mainly because of differences in cold resistance, reproduction, honey collection, nectar spewing, etc. among different bee species;

2. The number of bee colonies purchased for the first time: Determine the number of bee colonies to be purchased based on your own needs;

Breeding method:

1. Environmental conditions of beekeeping sites Beekeeping is closely related to the success or failure of beekeeping and the output of bee products. Bee farms should be established in places with abundant nectar sources and suitable environments.

2. For newly opened beekeeping sites, weeds must be removed first, the land must be leveled and cleaned;

3. Display bee colonies to facilitate management of the colony and help bees identify the location of their hives.

5. How to take bees home to raise?

My friend, it seems that you are a novice beekeeper. The answer to this question should be from many aspects. First of all, I think you should start with live-frame beekeeping, which is easy to master and manage in the future. Because now even experienced beekeepers with beekeeping skills have begun to adopt live-frame beekeeping. This can obtain greater profit margins.

Although you start raising bees with the old-fashioned grid barrel, you should still raise them according to their original habits and let them reproduce and survive naturally. This is not easy to master and the honey production is low. Without certain technical prerequisites, the success rate of raising bees is not under your control and it is easy to fail. Therefore, it is recommended that you start with live frame breeding. This will greatly increase the success rate for new beekeepers who have no technical skills. Because it is easy to artificially control the reproduction of the bee colony.

If you don't have a beehive, you can borrow an old beehive and nest frame and foundation from a nearby beekeeper. You can make a new beehive and frame according to his, and return the borrowed beehive to him after it is completed. The nest foundation is purchased, you can buy it locally or online. You can borrow it from a nearby beekeeper first, and then return it to him after you buy it. You can use it after he helps you install the nest frame.

After you have a beehive and a nest foundation frame, first use two nest foundation frames, two frames will do, then you can put the received bee colony in it and let the bees start building honeycombs. Because you don't know why the newly received bee colony flew away, whether it was hungry or not, no matter what the reason is, you must use a feeder to feed some sugar water at night. If there is no feeder, you can put a little sugar water in a bowl, and put some straw and leaves on the top of the bowl to prevent the honey from eating too much sugar and crawling out and drowning inside. This can help the bees build honeycombs and stabilize their emotions. If there is no nectar from flowers outside, you should continue to feed until there are several pounds of sugar on the built honeycombs. Only in this way can the bee colony achieve the goal of rapid rejuvenation.

On the other hand, the location where the beehive is placed is also very important. The beehive must be placed in a ventilated place that is warm in winter and cool in summer. There should be no peculiar smell around it, because the Chinese bees are very sensitive to peculiar smells. If there is a special peculiar smell in the beehive or near the beehive, the collected bee colonies will continue to escape. It is best if the nest door faces southeast and south.

After the bee colony is in good condition, you should also pay attention to the invasion of hornets. Because I have no experience and skills at the beginning, I must establish a good relationship with the local experienced beekeeper, often get his guidance and learn from him with an open mind, so that I can completely succeed in beekeeping. Don't think that beekeeping does not require any great skills. Beekeeping skills are skills that you can never learn until you are old. Although I have 60 years of beekeeping experience, I still think I am a novice beekeeper now. I only know some ordinary beekeeping techniques, and I don't know anything more profound. Therefore, as long as you learn from others with an open mind, you will make your beekeeping career more brilliant.

6. How to bring wild bees home to raise?

When collecting the worker bees, try to let the worker bees crawl out cleanly. When there are no worker bees crawling out, seal the hole with a small amount of paper. This is to prevent the field bees from returning to the tree hole. At the same time, pay attention to the queen bee when collecting the worker bees. When you see the queen bee, gently catch her and put her into the collection box.

After the bee colony is collected, close the door of the collection box and take the bee colony home. After returning home, the bee colony can be transferred to a normal beehive for breeding. Note that the escape prevention sheet should be inserted at the entrance of the nest to prevent the bee colony from escaping.

At the same time, feeding should be done well. When the bee colony starts to build honeycombs and lay eggs, it means that the bee colony has basically stabilized, and then it will enter the normal management mode. If conditions permit, some capped honeycombs can be added to the newly collected bee colony to facilitate the recovery of the bee colony. For those without a queen bee, a new queen should be introduced in time or egg and larvae honeycombs should be added for the transformation of worker bees.

Additional information:

When collecting bees, spray a small amount of smoke first to make the bee colony clump together. Then you can use a knife to cut the honeycomb and put it into the beehive. After cutting the honeycomb, use a bee broom to sweep the bee colonies into the collection box. At the same time, seal all other holes with mud and keep one main exit.

When spraying smoke, pay attention to observation. When you see a lot of smoke coming out of the hole, stop spraying smoke. When you see a large number of worker bees crawling out of the hole, turn the prepared collection box upside down at an appropriate position close to the nest entrance and slightly above it to allow the worker bees to slowly enter.

When the number of worker bees crawling out of the hole is small, they continue to spray smoke into the tree hole. While spraying smoke, they also keep the collection box in place to collect the bees that crawl out one after another. This process is repeated until the queen bee crawls out.

7. What are the 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.