Beekeeping and beekeeping techniques, what are the insect pests of bees?

Bee breeding should also pay attention to the harm of insect pests. The pests of honeybees include bees, bee lice flies and wax moths that harm the wax of the nest. The enemies of bees include toads, spiders, tiger-headed bees and so on. Let's take a look at it.

Toads: toads mostly occur in the mountains in summer. Toads hide under the beehive and come out at night to feed on the bees that are crowded outside the hive, causing a large number of bees.

Spiders: common spiders, spiders (Nephila maculata), etc., can spread webs and other bees, but the number of harmful bees is small. Cockroaches enter the hive to feed on honey or sundries, but they do little harm to bees and only harass the colony.

Ants: ants will enter the beehive to get honey, more in the mountains.

Slugs: snails and slugs will climb onto beehives in humid areas. it is not harmful to harass the colony, but it can be used as an indicator of too much humidity and the colony must be relocated.

Lizards: it is quite common for lizards to prey on bees in beekeeping grounds in this province, of which climbing lizards are the most common, but they are not noticed.

Birds: there are many birds that prey on bees, and there are bee-eating birds (bee-eaters) that specialize in eating bees, which are seriously harmful in some areas.