Master the promotion and control of honeybee reproduction

Correctly dealing with the "promotion" and "control" in the process of honeybee reproduction is the key to improve the economic benefit of beekeeping.

Bees produce royal jelly and honey, which is seasonal. In the pollen-rich production season, a large number of working bees of suitable age are needed to collect and feed, which needs to promote the reproduction of honeybees, and when there is little or no pollen, it is necessary to control the reproduction of bees in order to reduce "rice-bucket bees".

In order to deal with the "promotion" and "control" of honeybee reproduction, we must correctly grasp the relationship between standard honey flow period and bee age. Honeybees generally carry out reasonable division of labor and cooperation according to the age of bees. Generally speaking, it takes 21 days from the egg to the new bee to come out of the room. after leaving the room, there will be no work at the age of 1-3 days, while at the age of 4-13 days, it is mainly internal feeding, processing and nesting, etc.; it is only after 14 days of age that they go out to collect honey, powder and water. For this reason, it is necessary to accurately determine when and when the florescence enters the nectar stage, and how many days it takes from feeding to adult collection, so as to grasp the time of "promotion" and "control" of honeybee reproduction. Generally speaking, it begins to "promote" propagation 35 days before the big flow honey period, in order to ensure that there are more working bees of the right age to produce honey after entering the big flow honey period. When the honey flow period is over and other honey sources are not connected, it is generally necessary to start "control" 20 days before the end of the honey source to prevent bees from being allowed to reproduce on their own. as a result, the more the honey flow period, the more the bees give birth, the heavier the internal work burden, and the less attendance is. As a result, after the honey flow period, a large number of new bees leave the house, and there is no honey to collect, and there are a large number of "junk bees", affecting the efficiency of beekeeping.

The "promotion" and "control" of honeybee reproduction should be controlled flexibly. "promoting" is mainly to increase the spleen, pay attention to heat preservation, reward feeding, and improve the enthusiasm of mother bees to give birth and worker bees to raise. "Control" should distinguish between situations. When the honey source is cut off to control mites in summer or at the end of the honey source before overwintering, the queen bee can be locked up with a royal cover to prevent the queen from giving birth; when the big honey source ends but there are sporadic honey powder sources or mite damage is not serious, it can be taken to extract the excess empty spleen or use a partition to keep the queen bee in the community to control the reproduction of bees. In this way, proper "promotion" and "control" can greatly improve the economic benefits of beekeeping.