Culture techniques of Chinese honeybee (Apis cerana cerana)

Chinese honeybee, also known as Chinese bee, Chinese bee, soil bee and so on, is a unique honeybee species in China, which is widely distributed in more than 30 provinces in China. So, what are the breeding techniques of Chinese honeybee? Let's get to know it together.

1. Breeding environment

The choice of breeding environment is the basis of keeping Chinese bees well. We should pay attention to the selection and control of two environments: one is the natural environment, the other is the beehive small environment.

1. Natural environment

The Chinese bee breeding site is required to sit north and south, dry and ventilated, not stagnant water, warm in winter and cool in summer, preferably in mountainous areas with sparse small trees or in valleys with gently sloping woodland, and raise the beehive half a meter above the ground, so that there is sufficient light, and drainage, shade, ventilation is good.

two。 Beehive microenvironment

The small environment of the beehive should be paid special attention to and should not be ignored. first of all, the hive body of the beehive should be suitable for the needs of the bees, it is difficult to raise the bees with the husband-style beehive used to raise western bees, and the beehives should be tight and seamless, and cracks should be repaired in time to prevent bee theft and diseases.

II. Rational management

1. Selection of bee species

Due to the long-term natural evolution of Chinese bees, many types have been formed, and there are great differences in body size and group potential, so they can not be introduced easily. This is because Chinese honeybees are now included in the resource conservation list of our country, in order to ensure the differences among Chinese bee types, it is not allowed to cause confusion after random introduction. In addition, the specificity of Chinese bees is different in different places, such as the type of Chinese bees in the north, which has large individuals and large population potential, and is resistant to cold and heat. In the south, when it encounters a climate of high temperature and high humidity in summer, the group potential decays very quickly, and even fails over the summer. In addition, introduction from other places may also cause the infection of bee colony diseases, so it is better for bee species to be bred locally.

two。 The management of the queen bee

In the breeding of Chinese bees, the new queen bee is certainly better than the old queen bee. if there are enough drones, it would be better to change the queen bee twice a year, at least once. After the new queen bee, the new queen bee has strong fecundity, the offspring have strong disease resistance, and the scale of breeding will increase.

3. Control and management of group temperature

The colony with the proportion of the spleen or slightly more than the spleen is beneficial to the temperature control of the colony, and keeping the temperature in the hive at a constant temperature is the primary measure in management, which is not only conducive to ensuring the feeding of larvae, but also conducive to the cleaning, guarding and disease prevention of the colony.

On the question of whether the bee colony should be kept warm in winter: the premise for the bee colony to survive the winter safely is to have appropriate age overwintering bees and sufficient fodder. When the temperature is below 5 degrees, the straw is dried, shaken, cut into the inner diameter of the beehive, and tied into a small grass handle. Tight spleen makes bees dense (bees are more than spleen), fill the grass outside the partition, can be filled. As the temperature rises, the bees multiply and the grass can be taken out gradually.

4. Feed Management of Bee Colony

Feed management is divided into two aspects: sugar feed (feed honey) management and pollen management.

① Sugar Feed Management

Leave enough sugar feed at any time, sugar feed is honey, and is sealed honey, bees eat honey can develop well, strong physique, long life, can choose low-cost honey to feed bees, reduce the cost can make bees grow well.

② Pollen Feed Management

Compared with other bee species, the ability of collecting powder is not strong, and the colony is basically in a state of lack of powder, which is the fundamental reason why the colony is slow to reproduce in the breeding season, so the colony feeding is an important management technology. Powder feeding should begin at the beginning of the colony breeding period, and the honey powder should be continuously fed when collecting sporadic pollen and feeding to a sufficient amount at one time. If in the south, the honey powder should be fed again at the beginning of the breeding period, it can ensure both reproduction and production. The pollen feeding method is as follows: the pollen is adjusted into a paste, placed on the upper frame beam, and the bee colony can be transported to the nest for 2 days at a time, and continuously fed to a sufficient amount.

III. Moderate production

The correct mode of honey production is: wait for the honey on the nest and spleen to be covered and matured, so that the honey taken in this way is high-quality honey, which not only sells at a high price, but also ensures that the bees have high-quality feed, and appropriate parts of the honey should not be taken each time, in case the weather changes suddenly, the bees in the hive are short of feed, and the honey is taken for the last time before the end of the flowering period, and the honey is mostly taken on the basis of leaving enough sugar feed. If you don't have enough honey, you can't take it, and you have to supplement sugar feed.

The above is the breeding method of Chinese honeybee, I hope it can help you!