How to reproduce honeybees into strong colonies the breeding methods of honeybees in spring

Spring is the best time to breed honeybees. Only in the spring with changeable climate can bees be reproduced into strong colonies to ensure the benefit of beekeeping throughout the year. So how do bees reproduce in spring? Look down--

Shake the bees

First, shaking bees tight spleen: low temperature in early spring, bees due to low temperature or cold wind attack, spawning circle will be frozen and difficult to rest normally, at this time is disadvantageous to honeybee spawning. During spring propagation, the two beehives should be arranged side by side. In the windless evening, each group of bees should be fed with about 275 milliliters of sugar water or honey mixed with water with the same proportion of sugar and water. Two hours later, when the bees were excited and scattered and the temperature in the box increased, shake the bees and tighten the spleen. Normally, the queen bee can lay eggs about 2 days after tightening the spleen. It is worth noting that when the spleen is tight, only one spleen is left, and the excess spleen is put forward, which can promote the queen bee to lay eggs quickly.

Second, auxiliary feeding: after tightening the spleen, fill honey or sugar water in the feeder at the bottom of the box and use it to assist feeding every night. Feed frequently, once a night, uninterrupted, the amount of feeding should not be too large. When feeding for the first time, the feeding amount can be slightly larger, generally about 376 milliliters, which can be determined by the number of bees and the size of the spawning circle, and finally it is appropriate to have a small amount of horn honey on the spleen.

Third, add pink spleen: in the early spring, there is little natural pollen. When many queen bees begin to lay eggs, artificial pollen spleen should be added to ensure the adequate supply of pollen in the colony and the expansion of the spawning circle.

Artificial pollen spleen method: stir-fry medium well with soybeans, peel and grind into powder, then mix well into wet powder according to the proportion of honey and soybean powder 2 ∶ 3, let the wet powder pass through a sieve with a pore diameter of 3 mm, showing the shape of natural pollen, then, add half the weight of sugar powder, stir it well, pour it into the empty nest room, then gently tamp it with a brush, fill the nest room with seven or eight points of pollen, and finally apply a small amount of honey water on the powder room. The artificial pollen spleen can be completed. Each spleen added should be a pollen chamber on one side and an interstitial nest on the other.

The method of adding spleen can be determined according to the relationship between the spleen of the bee, the colony with a general number of bees will face the nest inward on one side, and the group with a large number of bees will have powder on one side facing inward. In order to obtain a strong group in time for the rapid development of the population, when the queen bee has laid eggs in the empty nest room of the artificial pollen spleen and half of the first artificial pollen spleen has been eaten, add one next to the first pink spleen.

Fourth, sealing boxes and selecting groups for heat preservation: at the beginning of spring reproduction, the population potential of bees is relatively small, and the ability to adjust temperature is poor, which is not conducive to heat preservation, so it is necessary to strengthen heat preservation. The measures are as follows: the number of bees is more than the spleen, and a spleen after tightening the spleen is placed in the center of the hive, which is enough for the bees to protect the spleen of the hive; the gap of the box is filled with insulation, a partition is placed on one side near the adjacent box, and a partition is placed on the other side, and then heat preservation is placed outside the board. The method of heat preservation outside the box: shrink the nest door, pad grass at the bottom of the box, fill weeds between the two beehives, pack around the nest, keep warm with plastic sheeting, and cover the hive with plastic sheeting on rainy days or colder evenings, but do not block the hive door. Depending on the temperature change in the evening, you can choose whether or not to close the nest door. Under normal circumstances, the hive temperature should be kept at about 35 ℃. Open the box to check on sunny, warm and windless days, when the weather is warmer, the insulation can be removed gradually.

Fifth, prevention and control of diseases: bee mites and rotten disease do great harm to bees, so they can not be ignored. The measures taken are: when the bee colony begins to reproduce, mites must be thoroughly controlled, acaricides, fish rattan essence and other drugs can be used; rotten disease can be prevented by feeding streptomycin, penicillin and other drugs plus sugar solution.