Feeding techniques, living habits and management points of Chinese bees

The feeding technique of the center

The Chinese bee is also known as the Chinese bee. It has existed for thousands of years in our country. Wild Chinese bees mainly live in the mountain and hilly areas where there are more Rain Water, moist air and honey and pollen plants. In tree caves, under the cliff, rock crevices, soil caves and other places to build nests, thrive. In the process of long-term struggle for survival, Chinese bees have formed unique living habits. Although it was taken back from home through human intervention, and even raised in living boxes, it still could not completely change its stubborn primitive wildness.

Chinese bees are smaller than western honeybees, have agile action, strong flying ability, fast flying speed, good at avoiding enemies, sensitive sense of smell, good at making use of sporadic honey sources, quick response to stimuli from external environmental conditions, strong defense ability and strong theft ability. because the individual is small and the kiss is short, the utilization rate of deep-flowered tube honey plants is low. The Chinese bee has close agglomeration, strong cold resistance, saving feed, strong wax secretion, and likes to destroy the old spleen to make a new spleen. The bee division is strong, and the population multiplication speed is fast, but the population potential is small. Poor orientation ability, easy to get lost in the nest.

Once the living environment is not suitable, the whole group is easy to flee; in the case of losing the king, the worker bee lays eggs very quickly, and it is not easy for the worker bee to introduce the new queen after spawning. Chinese bees collect diligently, come out early and return late, and their poor nesting ability is easy to be harmed by wax borer. The living habits of the above-mentioned Chinese bees are closely related to their long-term wild life.

The living habits of the center

Chinese bees, like other insects, are inseparable from the natural law of survival of the fittest. The formation of various life habits is the product of the struggle for survival. Flying ability is strong, flying speed is fast, can avoid the pursuit of many natural enemies in nature, those who do not adapt to this living environment will be eliminated, only can avoid the culling of natural enemies, can be preserved, to occupy their own living space. With a keen sense of smell, we can find more sources of honey and powder, and find food that can sustain the life of the group without large sources of honey and powder or in the worst weather conditions.

The main points of feeding and management of center

Although the feeding and management technology of Chinese bee has many similarities with that of western bee, because Chinese bee has its unique living habits, in terms of feeding and management methods, it must be more adapted to some living habits of Chinese bee in order to achieve good results. Otherwise, it will cause undue trouble, and even cause losses.

The main contents are as follows: 1. Selection of Chinese bee release site

The bee release site should be located far away from factories, mines, highways and other secluded hillsides, hillsides and forest edges, to avoid human and animal disturbance or vibration interference, and there should be adequate and clean water sources near the beehive. The Chinese bee is not very strict on the bulk honey source, but it has more requirements on the honey powder plant species, the flowering period of the honey source is continuous, and the nectar breaking period is not too long. Because the Chinese bee is good at making use of sporadic honey sources, there are sporadic honey powder in the outside world to avoid causing bee theft and easy to manage.

2. The placement of Chinese bee colony

Because the Chinese bees have a short domestication time, strong wildness, poor orientation ability and easy to get lost in the nest, the Chinese bees cannot be arranged in the same way as the western bees, neatly and tightly, and in the same direction. In the placement of bees, the distance between the groups is farther, the front and rear are staggered, and the direction of the nest door is not consistent, so as to avoid the bees throwing each other wrongly, causing each other to fight and kill each other. Especially the mating group, it is necessary to increase the distance between large groups to prevent the queen from being killed by mistake. Wooden piles are used in each box to prevent ants from invading the bee colony and causing fleeing bees.

3. Prevent odor contact

Chinese bees have a good sense of smell and are sensitive to odors. Beehives used by western bees are the best hives for raising bees. Or choose a new beehive made of odorless wood. Before use, the new beehive should be coated with a small amount of beeswax to eliminate the wood odor, which is conducive to the acceptance of Chinese bees and prevent flight. Do not use strong-smelling drugs to prevent and cure bee disease. after disinfection, beehives and beehives must be completely eliminated before they can be reused. beehives should be disinfected by burning as far as possible to prevent bees from escaping from being stimulated by odors.

4. Chinese bee colony management

Chinese honeybee has a good sense of smell and strong theft. Preventing bee theft is a main work in bee management, which should be paid attention to at any time. It is best to punch 8 holes in two rows on the gate of the nest gate, with an aperture of 5-5.5mm. In the process of feeding, the number of holes is opened or blocked according to the change of population potential. The seams of the boxes are sealed with plastic tape.

The habit of tapping the old spleen of the Chinese bee is related to its poor resistance to nest insects (wax borer). In feeding, the bees should frequently make a new spleen to replace the old spleen. In addition to preserving a small amount of honey collection, the rest of the old spleen should be eliminated in time to prevent wax borer eggs from entering the colony and increase the distance between the bottom of the box and the lower beam of the nest spleen at least 40 mm apart. Or use a living bottom beehive to remove wax chips from the bottom of the box at any time to prevent wax borer from spawning.

The hives of wild Chinese bees are as follows: the central part is pupa spleen, the outer part of pupa spleen is insect spleen, the outer part of insect spleen is egg spleen, and the outer part of egg spleen is incomplete new spleen. The whole bee spleen is hemispherical and there are a large range of honey powder circles in the upper part of each spleen, and the sub-circles are in the lower part of each spleen. Therefore, in the management, bees need not put too much emphasis on regulating the spleen, and minimize the number of unpacking during the breeding period, so as not to disturb the normal life order of the colony.

The number of examinations should be increased appropriately in the bee-sharing season. The Chinese bee swarm flies early, and the queen bee may fly at any time without waiting for the king's platform to be sealed without waiting for the queen to lay eggs in the king's platform. When it is found that the swarm is idle and so on, artificial bee division should be adopted to eliminate. Before Meiyuan blossoms, it is not advisable to destroy Taiwan many times to maintain a strong group. In order to increase the amount of honey collection, honey can be merged at the initial stage of honey flow or field bees can be mobilized to organize strong groups to collect honey. Make more new spleen during the honey gathering period.

5. Chinese bee overwintering

In order to adapt to the life habit that the bees are clustered in the lower part of the nest and spleen. The layout of the overwintering hive should be as follows: the central part 2mur3 there is a semi-honey spleen or less half-honey spleen in the upper part of the spleen, and there is a large honey spleen with a small number of empty rooms on the outside. Because Chinese bees often have to knock off a large area of the lower part of the nest spleen in order to keep the clusters tight. If they are all honey chambers, bees eat a lot of honey in the process of tapping the spleen, eat too much honey, accumulate too much feces, and diarrhea in the later period of overwintering, which will cause serious losses.

In total, the management of bee colony should adapt to the living habits of Chinese bee in order to achieve good results.