How long is the life span of the queen bee family? How much is it usually? What about the dead swarm?

The queen bee, also known as mother bee and queen bee, is a bee developed from fertilized eggs, which can lay eggs and secrete substances to maintain the order of the colony, so if you want to keep a good bee, you need a queen bee, how long is the life span of the queen bee? How much is it usually? What about the dead swarm?

How long is the life span?

The life span of a queen bee can be as long as 3 to 5 years. Due to the gradual decline in the fertility rate of the elderly queen bee, it is often artificially eliminated in the apiculture industry. Drones live only a few months, and the average lifespan of worker bees (during the honey season) is only about 45 days. So the queen is usually the mother of other members of the colony, so some people also call the queen the mother bee.

Latest price:

The price of the queen bee generally varies from 100 yuan to several hundred yuan, and the price varies with the quality of the queen bee.

What if he dies?

If the queen bee dies of natural causes, it means that the colony is in decline until a new queen bee emerges, usually before the old queen bee dies, and then carries on a duel, so there is no need to worry.

How to judge whether the bee colony has lost its queen?

1. Bees with the hives of kings will not be chaotic, while those without kings will be chaotic and nervous!

2. Worker bees lay eggs.

3. The attendance of the colony decreased obviously, and the bees crawled at the nest door. The bees who opened the lid of the box were easily frightened and gave off a buzzing sound, but the strong colony lost the king would not have this performance.

4. The most prominent performance of the lost queen of Chinese bees is that the worker bees fly around the ground and gather outside the box, but it is not ruled out that ants and wax moths may hide in the box.

5. There are kings and guard bees at the nest gate, and there are no guard bees at the nest gate without kings.

How to remedy after death?

1. After the queen bee dies, there is no need to worry too much, because after the death of the old queen bee, there will be a period of turmoil in the colony. After a day or so, worker bees will feed royal jelly to the pupae in the hive, and after their introduction, a new queen bee will be formed. if multiple queen bees come out, they will kill each other, and the fiercest one will become the new queen bee. What we need to do here is to provide worker bees with the necessary nutrition and food in time.

2. Another simple solution is to introduce a new adult queen bee directly from other hives. As long as you find a way to get the colony to accept the new queen bee, the colony will return to normal. According to the survey, the queen bee mainly depends on the smell to guide the bees. When introducing the new queen bee, the queen bee can soak it in honey water. After putting it into the hive, the bee will suck the honey water from the queen bee body, and slowly the smell of the queen bee will be accepted by all bees.

3. The death of the queen bee is a sign of the decline of the colony, and it is also a good remedy to integrate the bees of the colony into other colonies in time. When merging beehives, you can insert a partition in the hive to separate the kingless group from the kingless group, so that the bees in the kingless colony can slowly adapt to the smell of the new queen bee. when the two sides are no longer repelled, the partition can be removed and fed directly as a colony.