Management of breeding bees in late autumn

Experienced bee farmers always regard late autumn management as the beginning of a year of beekeeping. The main task of late autumn management is to lay the foundation for bee colony overwintering and early spring reproduction in the coming year, so that there are more young bees, strong population potential, sufficient food and less diseases. The management focuses on the following tasks:

First, cultivate overwintering bees. Bees that have participated in honey-making and feeding work in autumn are physically weak and generally cannot survive the winter. Therefore, it is necessary to renew the colony with the young bees bred in autumn and cultivate the appropriate age overwintering bees. The cultivation of suitable-age overwintering bees should be arranged according to the fact that the last batch of young bees can all come out of the house in late October, not only do not take part in work, but also be able to fly. Before and after Cold Dew, the queen bee must be made to stop laying eggs, otherwise the young bees are not suitable for overwintering bees, which will bring great losses to beekeeping production. Second, store enough feed for overwintering. The quality and adequacy of overwintering feed are closely related to the safe overwintering of bees. Most of the high-quality honey can be digested and absorbed by bees, and less dung accumulates; for poor-quality honey, there are more substances that bees cannot digest and more dung. Too much feces will make bees uneasy, can not be well agglomerated, and even cause dysentery, so easy to crystallize honey and poor quality sugar, should not be used as overwintering feed. The amount of overwintering feed should be determined according to the way of overwintering. For those who are transferred to the south to breed, one and a half frames of honey spleen should be left for each frame of bees, and two frames of honey spleen should be left for each frame of bees raised in the fixed place. In general, each colony needs to store 10 kilograms of high-quality honey or 15 kilograms of sugar, and extract the pollen and spleen from the beehive before overwintering for early spring reproduction. Third, do a good job in the prevention and control of bee mites. It is generally appropriate to choose new drugs with better acaricidal effect at the initial stage of natural breakage before the bee colony overwintering. In order to improve the efficacy, bees should be fed before medication, which can enhance the resistance of bees. At the same time, the belly of bees is elongated after being full, which can cure all the bee mites hiding in the abdomen. Fourth, cut off the queen bee at the right time. The temperature drops in late autumn and the source of honey powder is coming to an end, so it is not suitable for bees to continue to breed. In order to maintain the population potential of overwintering bees and the vitality of queen bees, in the later stage of overwintering bee cultivation, honey and powder can be used to fill the nest, compress the spawning circle, and then irrigate only a small amount of spleen with honey, and the queen bee will stop production after 2 Mel for 3 times. At the same time, move the colony to a cooler place, the nest door faces north, the bee road is expanded to 15ml 20mm, and the pollen spleen is extracted, and the insulation is removed, so that the queen bee is aborted early. If the swarm is clustered early, the queen bee can also be imprisoned in a 5 × 3 × 1.5 cm cage, prompting it to shrink its belly and stop production. After the queen bee is cut off to the end of November, the colony must be transferred to a sunny dry place to survive the winter.