How to tell the new queen bee from the old queen bee?

The body is longer than worker bees 1/3, the abdomen is longer, there are thorns at the end, there are no wax glands under the abdomen, and the wings only cover half of the abdomen. Under different physiological conditions, the information released by the queen bee is different in composition and content. The feet are not as strong as worker bees, and there is no pollen basket on the hind feet, which can attract bees.

2. Fear of light:

The queen bee is also afraid of light. When looking for the queen bee, you can open the door of the hive, then take out the spleen of the hive and raise some in the sunny place.

Note that if you can see a bee moving quickly towards the back of the sun, it is probably the king of bees.

3, bee group behavior recognition:

Normal bees, worker bees are quiet and work orderly. The queen bee actively lays eggs.

The reason is that some exocrine glands of the queen bee constantly secrete exogenous hormones. By feeding the queen bee and the queen bee crawling on the nest spleen, the queen bee secretes exogenous hormones full of bees, and the worker bees perceive the existence of the queen bee.

If there are eggs in the hive, it means that there is a queen bee in the hive and no queen bee is lost. Within a few days after the bee colony loses the queen bee, the eggs in the nest will be cut off. Long after the queen bee disappears, worker bees will lay eggs in the nest (called labor). These eggs are laid on the wall of the nest room, and the number of eggs in a room is very irregular.

Extended data:

In order to increase production, we must first improve varieties. Introduce high-yield seed king, buy high-yield mother seed and use its high-yield seed gene. Order mature platforms from high-yield farms.

Create conditions for raising a prince:

(1) The potential of raising a group of kings must be strong, and the weak ones should be reinforced with houses;

(2) Nutrition should be not only adequate, but also good, and a group lacking honey and flour cannot produce a good king;

(3) Eliminate ducklings. In groups with mites, the new king is often malnourished, and even his wings and feet are broken;

(4) Reward feeding every night, improve the enthusiasm of the group, and promote the worker ants to vomit more pulp and have good nutrition;

⑤ Don't have too many wangtai (about 30), because there are too many wangtai, the nutrition is scattered, and the quality of the new king is poor;

⑥ Using compound insect transfer. First, move the bigger bugs out, clip them out after 24 hours, and then move them into larvae, so that there is more pulp in the platform and the quality of the new king is good;

⑦ After sealing the platform, check carefully, and remove the premature, late, crooked and short sealing platforms, leaving only excellent platforms.

After the investigation of 1 month and a half, the new king bred by the above method was selected as the female parent with high royal jelly yield, good genetic performance, strong reproductive ability and good disease resistance and stress resistance, and then the hybrid king was bred. In the process of raising kings, we should also attach great importance to the cultivation of males.

Breeding in early spring in time to avoid catching up with flowering period. Due to the renewal of rape varieties, especially the warming climate in winter, the flowering of rape is advanced, and the group reproduction can not catch up with the flowering period. Advance the spring breeding from around beginning of spring to before the severe cold, so as to synchronize the group breeding with the flowering period. But early spring breeding will make spring breeding in the coldest period of the year, so it is required that the herd must be strong, the feed must be excellent, the management must be diligent, and the warmth must be good.

Improve the king's ability to lay eggs, change the traditional spring king to a new king throughout the year, and eliminate the old and inferior kings in time. Because the new king has strong vitality, plump figure, high oviposition enthusiasm, large oval, strong cold resistance and late production, autumn breeding can cultivate more overwintering age. According to the experiment, the new king breeds 80 %- 120% more than the old king, which can lay the foundation for strong spring breeding in the coming year.

Baidu Encyclopedia: Queen Bee