How do bees reproduce?

Honeybee is a social insect, which is composed of queen bee, drones, worker bees and other individuals. Its honey is a very nutritious food. So how do bees reproduce?

How do bees reproduce?

Every mating season, sexually mature drones automatically gather in one place to fly in the air in order to attract virgin queen bees. In the end, only one was given the right to mate, and the whole mating process with the queen bee was in the air. After mating, the drones will die immediately. After mating with drones, the virgin queen bee keeps the number of sperm in the body, and the queen bee is free to choose to produce fertilized or unfertilized eggs.

Second, what are the breeding techniques of bees?

1. Bee colony selection

First of all, it is necessary to understand the local natural environment, it is best to choose local bee species for breeding, and the second is to choose bees that are suitable for local natural conditions, so as to improve the success rate of bee breeding. Finally, when choosing a colony, try to choose a colony that is diligent in and out and has a lot of pollen collection.

2. Beehive selection

Beehives are usually placed in the open, and bees do their basic life in beehives, so the first requirement for choosing beehives is to have solid materials but light texture. Secondly, for beginners who have just started breeding bees, it is best to choose a live beehive, which is conducive to the exchange of the nest and spleen, and is more convenient in management and honey collection.

3. Colony transfer

Generally speaking, in order to make the bees adapt to the new environment more quickly, we will put them into the hive together with the hive spleen, so that the colony can return to normal activity as soon as possible, without nostalgia for the place where the hive was built before, because its hive spleen has been moved here together.

4. Subsidized feeding

We usually feed honey, syrup, pollen and so on at night. Especially when there is less honey, such as winter, then we also need to use subsidized feeding to maintain the survival of bees and increase honey production, while the fourth uncle is usually fed once in the morning and evening.

5. Reward and raise

Reward feeding is generally divided into two stages, namely, spring bee breeding period and autumn bee breeding period. The purpose of reward breeding in spring is to improve the economic benefits of bee breeding, while in autumn, it is to make bees survive the winter smoothly and improve the economic benefits in the coming year. In fact, the way of reward feeding is very similar to that of subsidized feeding, which is fed with honey, syrup and syrup, but only in the evening every day.

Because bees can sting, it is best for beginners to breed bees under the guidance of professionals.