Key points of bee breeding: how to control borer pests?

Apiculture is an important breeding industry in China, which can obtain good economic, ecological and social benefits. Bee farming can obtain honey, beeswax and propolis and other products with high value, which can bring high economic benefits to farmers, so bee farming is increasingly welcomed by farmers. However, some farmers in the breeding process, due to the lack of effective breeding management technology, resulting in improper management of bee farming, resulting in a lot of losses in bee farming, how to prevent and control borer damage?

1, low temperature treatment

Through low temperature treatment, we have already said that borers are greatly affected by temperature, so we can use low temperature methods to eliminate borers, and freeze the bees contaminated by borers by freezing at-6.7℃ for 4.5 h,-12.2℃ for 3 h and-15℃ for 2 h, so that all borers can be killed. However, this condition may not be realistic for many friends, only our relatively large professional beekeeping farms will have such conditions.

2. Blisters

For small beekeeping farms with relatively simple equipment, we can soak bees in water in the form of blisters, which can kill some borers.

3. Biological therapy

There are also biological treatments for stem borers, mainly Bacillus thuringiensis, which is said to have no effect on treated colonies and its toxins, which can be used to control wax borers by spraying colonies or soaking nests with Bacillus thuringiensis The second is the use of nuclear polyhedrosis virus, these methods are too high-end, for many beekeepers is still unrealistic, but through low temperature methods and spleen replacement and strong colony methods believe that many beekeeping friends can still achieve.

4. Chemicals

The use of chemical agents, this method is not recommended, in bee farming, Xiaobian suggested to use traditional Chinese herbal medicine as much as possible, mainly for prevention, if treatment is needed, try to use physical therapy and Chinese herbal medicine therapy.

Conclusion: In the process of bee breeding, it is inevitable that the problem of bee disease will occur, which will have an adverse impact on the economic benefits of bee breeding. In order to prevent bees from getting sick, we should also take corresponding prevention and control measures, do a good job of cleaning the bee farm, and reduce the efficiency of disease transmission.

In the specific breeding process, once the bee farmer finds that the bee is sick, the sick bee should be isolated immediately, and the professional epidemic prevention personnel should diagnose the disease infected by the bee colony, and take corresponding prevention and control measures to diagnose the sick bee. The hives and bees in which the sick bees are located are disinfected to prevent the virus from spreading to other bees.