Method of raising bees

If you want to engage in beekeeping, after determining the farm site (location and transition), you can determine the bee products and breeding methods according to the honey source of the site, and then determine the species of bees.

Bees in China can produce honey and beeswax, and use sporadic honey sources to save labor. Suitable for raising in mountainous areas and fixed places. It is resistant to bee acariasis, chalk disease and bee crawling disease, but not to cyst larva disease.

Italian bees can produce honey, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, bee venom, beeswax and bee pupae. , and can collect and use a large number of high-yield honey sources. A bee suitable for spinning. Anti-cyst larva disease, not anti-bee mite disease, chalk disease, bee crawling disease. It currently accounts for more than two thirds of the total population.

In addition, the species of bees, such as kappa bees and Caucasian bees, are introduced in detail.

Second, the time and quantity of bee colony purchase

The time to buy bees should be February-March in the first half of the year or 9- 10 in the second half of the year. The north should be from April to May in the first half of the year. So now is the breeding period of bee colony, the external temperature and honey powder source conditions are good, and feeding is easy to succeed.

Early beekeeping should start with a small number of bees, generally within 10. After gaining some experience and mastering beekeeping technology, the number of bees will be gradually multiplied or increased.

Third, the method of selecting bee colony

You should go to the bee farm to observe at noon when the weather is sunny and warm. Observe outside the box first to ensure that bees fly and collect normally without crawling. After the preliminary judgment, open the box for inspection.

1, observed outside the box

There are many bees, which fly forcefully and orderly, and the bees sound obviously, and the worker bees are healthy and bring back a lot of pollen; There are no crawling bees, sour smell and lime-like bee carcasses in front of the hive.

2. Unpacking inspection

(1) queen bee

The color is fresh, the body is big and the chest is wide, the abdomen is long and plump, and the movements are steady. When laying eggs, the abdomen is flexible and sensitive, moves quickly, and the spleen is stable, constantly laying eggs. It shows that the queen bee is young and strong, and has strong ability to lay eggs.

(2) worker bees

Strong and disease-free, with many new bees, gentle temperament, quiet unpacking, no jumping or crawling, and consistent body color.

(3) Spleen

Cover the spleen neatly, without flower seed phenomenon, the larvae are fully developed, the color is normal, and there is no larval disease. (Hanako refers to the mixture of larvae, pupae, eggs and empty nests. White-headed pupa means that bees open the lid to expose the white pupa head. These are all manifestations of bee diseases or natural enemies. )

(4) Nested spleen honeycomb

Beehives and frames should be standard, tight and strong. Check whether the spleen is flat, too old and there are too many unmanned computer rooms.

(5) Group potential

Different seasons and different purposes of buying bees have different requirements for the potential of bee colonies. When buying bees in spring to collect honey sources in summer, the number of bees should be more than 4 to ensure that they can breed into powerful bees before the honey flow period. When buying bees near the honey flow period, we should choose bees with more than 10 and more than 8 subgroups. Not less than 2 frames of foot bees in early spring, and more than 5 frames in summer and autumn.

(6) Feed

Check whether there is enough feed in the box.

Fourth, pricing.

The price of buying bees is in groups. The basic unit of the spleen potential group is that both sides of the spleen are covered with bees (without overlapping or exposing the spleen), which is 1, with about 2,400 Italian bees and 3,000 China bees. Buying bees is also priced by weight (for example, keeping bees in cages), which is generally 1 kg, Italian bees 10000 or so, and China bees 12500, accounting for 4 standard nest frames.

The number of bees, the quality of spleen, honey and beehives are the main factors that determine the price of bee colonies, regardless of spleen or weight.