What are the tips for keeping bees in spring? What are the precautions?

Honey is a common food in our life, which is deeply loved by consumers, and more and more people are farmed. Honey farming is not easy. Let's take a look at the skills of raising bees in spring. What are the precautions?

What are the skills of keeping bees?

1. Feed water

Use the nest door feeder to keep the nest door warm and replace the new water every day. In the first 3 days, 0.1% citric acid or 1% edible vinegar was added to the water. After stopping for 3 days, 30g of honeysuckle leaves and 30g of Hawthorn were fried three times to make 600g liquid. According to the ratio of liquid and water at 3:7, the liquid was fed to bees with warm water. The rats were fed once every other day for 3 times, and EM paste was added to the water after stopping for 3 days, and then fed for another course.

Advantages: (1) reducing the number of worker bees going out to collect water will help to prolong the life span of overwintering bees, prevent water from coming out of the nest from freezing to death due to low temperature, and prevent sudden occurrence of strong wind during water collection flight; (2) feeding warm boiled water can make use of worker bees to prepare feed and heat preservation, prevent worker bees from using contaminated water, damage the health of old bees and eggs, pupae and new bees, and even cause disease. (3) in the arid area of North China, feeding water at the nest gate is beneficial to increase the humidity in the hive, (4) adding some medicine solution is beneficial to the health care of honeybees, promoting the activity of worker bees and the spawning of queen bees.

2. Feed honey

When there is no honey source in the outside world, the temperature is low and must not be rewarded for feeding. It is best to add honey spleen feeding or honey. When there is no honey, you can use high-quality white granulated sugar to make 1 ∶ 1 syrup. 0.1% citric acid and edible salt must be added to the syrup to feed the bees. Add vitamin C to the syrup (6 tablets per kilogram) and feed it until there is a source of honey. However, in some years, the external honey sources in some areas are not enough for the spring reproduction of bees, so they can be fed in the nest with a feeder in the evening. With regard to reward feeding, it can only be carried out when the temperature is above 15 ℃ and there is a honey source in the outside world.

3. Feeding powder

Reproduction of 1kg bees (4 frame bees) requires nearly 1kg pollen. When there is no powder source in the outside world, the method of adding powder to the spleen or putting pressed powder flowers on the frame beam is used to feed the pollen. The pollen should be collected and retained in the field last year, and the bee pollen should be sterilized at high temperature. No pollen or lack of pollen is available or add defatted soybean powder (no more than 1amp 3) instead, it is best to process it yourself, to prevent adulteration when you need to buy it; add yeast powder to skimmed soybean powder, and then add 1% "quick tonic" (multivitamin), after about a week of fermentation before feeding the bees. When preparing pollen (or substitute), add 20% high-quality white sugar to help bees feed.

4. add spleen at the right time

Add spleen to consider the feeding power and spleen protection ability of bees, do not add spleen blindly. Under the premise of dense bees, adequate feed, sealing honey cutting, proper heat preservation and no disease, timely spleen addition is the key to cultivate the first batch of robust new bees quickly and frequently. Because the honeybees in the hive are dense, the temperature is suitable, and the queen is active in spawning, under normal circumstances, the queen begins to lay eggs on the second day after the arrangement of the spring breeding hive, and the first spawning spleen can lay eggs more than 70% in 5-6 days. At this time, you can add a second spawning spleen, add the spleen method, move the first spawning spleen outward, put the original honey powder spleen as the second spawning spleen in the middle, and add a honey powder spleen again. The third spawning spleen can be added from 5 to 11 days, and the second spawning spleen can be added in the same way. If a queen bee is found to lay unfertilized eggs, the queen bee should be replaced with a spare queen or a queen bee from the two kings.

The reason for queen bee to lay unfertilized eggs in spring is usually due to freezing, spawning dysfunction, or merging with other groups during overwintering. Spleen principle: add to the bee spleen when the spleen is suspended, wait until a large number of new bees out of the room, bees are more than the spleen and then add the spleen. In other words, only 3 spawning spleen can be added to the breeding of 4-frame bees. (5) only 4 spawning spleen can be added to the breeding of frame wasp. when the fourth spawning spleen is added, the first spawning spleen (the child spleen which has been covered at this time) is raised into the lateral feed spleen. 6 frame wasps were added to the fifth oviposition spleen according to this method. Note that the honey powder spleen is added to the lid at this time.

Second, what are the precautions for beekeeping in spring?

1. Flying in the right amount

Spring is the critical period for honeybee reproduction, when bees after winter, will deposit a large amount of garbage in the intestines, the existence of this garbage is not conducive to the growth and reproduction of bees, so let bees fly properly in order to excrete garbage.

2. Honeycomb heat preservation

The climate in spring is relatively changeable, and the external temperature in early spring is still relatively low, which can not reach the temperature needed for the growth of bee larvae, so beekeepers have to heat up their own beehives and hives.

3. The king divides the bee.

Generally speaking, the queen bee in the spring colony is mostly the old queen bee bred the year before. After two seasons of spawning, the spawning peak is almost over, so it is necessary to do the king breeding and bee division treatment as early as possible.