Top 10 things to avoid in beekeeping for beginners, what season do you usually start in?
1. Avoid "adding spleen randomly": it will cause more larvae, fewer feeding bees, and malnutrition. Summer will cause the room temperature to rise, shortening the lifespan of worker bees. 2. Avoid "random grouping": it is not conducive to the insulation and cooling of bee colonies, resulting in slow development of the colony. 3. Avoid "frequently opening the box" during the day: it will destroy the temperature balance effect in the box, disturb the bee colony, and attract bee thieves. 4. Avoid "white-headed pupae are nest worms": dead pupae caused by shaking honey and careless inspection may cause white-headed pupae.
1. Ten taboos for novice beekeepers
1. Do not add spleens randomly?
(1) Adding spleens randomly for novices will lead to an increase in larvae. There are few feeding bees, resulting in malnutrition, and a considerable number of new bees leaving the nest are prone to congenital disabilities (climbing bees). Even if these bees can fly normally, their life span will not be long.
(2) Indiscriminately adding spleens in the summer will cause too many spleens and few bees, and it will be difficult for the worker bees to fan the wind and drive away heat, causing the room temperature to be too high, shortening the life of the worker bees, and causing heat damage to the larvae. (Bad boy).
(3) In spring and winter, adding spleens randomly is not good for heat preservation, can easily cause cold injury, and can easily lead to diseases (rotten chicks and cysts). More spleens than bees will eventually lead to the collapse of the colony.
2. Avoid random grouping?
(1) Some beekeepers want to increase the number of bees, and they group them when they see 4-5 spleens in the box, resulting in the appearance of bees. The phenomenon of many people and few spleens.
(2) Too many colonies and few spleens will increase the labor intensity of beekeepers, which is not conducive to the insulation and cooling of bee colonies, slows down the development of colonies, affects economic income, and can easily induce bee colony diseases.
3. Avoid opening the box frequently during the day?
(1) Frequent opening and checking of the box by novices will destroy the temperature balancing effect in the box. The suitable temperature for bee colony emulsification is around 35°C. The frequent entry of hot and cold air into the beehive will affect the reproduction of the bee colony.
(2) Frequent opening of the box will also disturb the bee colony, and may also attract bee thieves, making the bee colony more difficult to manage.
4. What to avoid? White-headed pupae are nest worms?
(1) In addition to nest worms, the causes of white-headed pupae include death caused by honey shaking and careless inspection. pupae, and "bee pupae disease".
(2) If the white-headed pupae are continuously connected, it is likely that nest insects are causing damage. When the white-headed pupae are scattered and sparse, it may be caused by humans. If the white-headed pupae are densely packed, it may be bee pupa virus.
5. Don’t believe in double transplantation?
(1) King breeding is particularly important for beekeeping. In order to achieve the required number and timely replacement of kings, some Beekeepers will use the method of removing insects to raise kings. However, there is no scientific evidence to prove that queens bred using "compound transplantation" (except for the high acceptance rate) are better than single transplantation.
(2) Compound transfer of insects to raise the queen will increase unnecessary fatigue and delay the date of raising the queen. If it is not managed well, the quality of the queen will be worse.
6. What should be avoided? Two kings in the same colony?
(1) A good queen can maintain more than 10 spleens of egg-laying power, and there is no need for two kings.
(2) When two queens are in the same colony, it is difficult for different queen bees to be compatible (even if they are sister queens), which may cause the worker bees in the colony to be emotionally agitated and passive in feeding and collecting.
(3) The two kings stay in the same group for about 2 weeks. After the situation stabilizes, the worker bees will gradually indifferent to the weak king, allowing it to slowly wither and die.
7. What should we avoid when medium bees randomly feed substitute feeds?
(1) Medium bees and Italian bees have different temperaments and hobbies. Italian bees have a wider range of feeding habits and can be fed beans. Meal, corn meal and various substitute feeds.
(2) Medium bees generally do not need to feed feed. During the season of powder shortage, they can feed high-quality pure natural pollen. If you can only feed "substitute feed", it is recommended to use half of the "substitute feed" mixed with half of "natural pollen", add some "amino acids" and yeast powder, stir and ferment with honey water before feeding.
(3) It is recommended not to simply feed bees or alternative feeds. Natural pollen contains a variety of trace elements, vitamins and amino acids necessary for the body functions of bees, but alternative feeds may lack nutrients and may also There may be an imbalance in the proportions of various elements, and random feeding may affect the health of bees.
8. What to avoid? The more closed the better?
(1) A beehive that is too closed will make the bees more tired, shorten the life of the bees, cause heat damage, and cause the bees to die. Bacteria and viruses come one after another.
(2) When the temperature is above 22°C, try to open the transom window to ventilate the beehive while keeping it moisturized, but avoid drafts.
(3) Generally, old outdoor boxes and self-made miscellaneous wooden boxes do not need to open the transom window because there are many gaps. If you see little bees blowing wind at the entrance of the nest, you can open the air window or open the lid of the box.
9. What should you avoid if the feed is not sterilized?
(1) Feed from unknown sources must be sterilized before feeding bees.
(2) Some beekeepers will boil sugar and pour it into pollen, stir and ferment it overnight before feeding the bees. This method is not scientific. Pollen may contain potentially rotting germs or encapsulated viruses, as well as other germs and toxins that cause various diseases. Pollen needs to be boiled for a certain period of time to achieve the killing effect.
10. Avoid shaking the honey to sweep it all away?
(1) When the bee colony is small, the bees are prone to disease, and the honey quality is poor, beekeepers often adopt the method of seeing the honey. Just shake and shake the entire box of honey.
(2) The honeycomb is the thermostat in the beehive. Shaking the honey to sweep it away will cause the thermostat in the box to disappear, which will adversely affect the reproduction of the bee colony.
(3) Shaking all the honey will cause the worker bees to have no food to eat. The hungry worker bees will no longer feed the queen bee, causing the queen bee to stop producing, destroying the reproductive chain, causing the bee colony to become inactive, and ultimately The crowd gradually declined.
(4) Shaking all the honey will cause the larvae to be killed. There will be no honey in the nest, the worker bees will be hungry, and the young pupae will have no food to feed. When the worker bees collect the honey water, the young pupae will not eat it. After fermentation of dilute honey water (deficient in nutrients and bacterial growth), the eggs are severely malnourished and difficult to hatch normally. Even if these bees can survive or leave the house, some of them will be disabled (creeping bees or missing wings), so when asking for honey, don't be too greedy to avoid greater losses.
11. Avoid indiscriminate application of pesticides to bee diseases?
(1) Some beekeepers have blind spots in the prevention and control of bee diseases. They often treat bee diseases by indiscriminate application of pesticides when they see the disease.
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(2) This will cause bee diseases to become more severe as time goes by, eventually leading to the disappearance of the entire apiary and heavy economic losses.
2. In which season do novice beekeepers usually start?
1. Beekeeping season
It is a cyclical and reincarnated work that occurs in different seasons. Their different characteristics will also vary greatly depending on the year.
2. Spring beekeeping
(1) Spring beekeeping is the busiest, and it is also the season with the most investment and harvest.
(2) The workload of beekeeping management in spring is relatively large. First, we must plan a one-year beekeeping plan and make adequate preparations. We must vigorously breed bees and invest a lot of energy. We must also focus on bee breeding and It is necessary to coordinate the harvesting of honey, and at the same time, preparations need to be made for the large flow of honey in summer.
3. Summer beekeeping
(1) The early stage of summer beekeeping takes over from spring, and the nectar sources are continued. There are many large nectar sources, and the workload is relatively large.
(2) Wasps begin to infest in summer, requiring a lot of effort to control.
(3) Warm weather may occur in mid-to-late summer, which may cause severe bee decline and requires timely response.
4. Autumn beekeeping
(1) Autumn beekeeping will continue through the summer period. You will encounter high temperatures in the early stage, and you only need to do basic bee colony management.
(2) During beekeeping in autumn, attention should be paid to wasp hunting and bee breeding. There are fewer nectar sources in autumn and there is not as much pressure on bees as there is in spring and summer, but we must also be prepared for overwintering.
5. Beekeeping in winter
Beekeeping in winter is a relatively easy season. There is basically no work required. You only need to occasionally observe and take care of the bee colonies.