In autumn, we use the late flowering sperm tube colony to prepare for winter

In autumn, buckwheat and sunflower were used to manage the colony carefully and adjust the colony situation in time, so as to lay a good foundation for bee overwintering and next year's yield.

First, breed new kings and winter bees

The full bloom in autumn is a good opportunity to raise kings, and fixed-point colonies and small transferred colonies should cultivate a number of queen bees in a planned way. The late autumn flower is the last stage of overwintering bee breeding, and it is also one of the key periods that can not be ignored in beekeeping production. On the basis of storing honey spleen, shaking honey, breeding and controlling mites in the front section, pay close attention to the reproduction of bees, take out the fully covered honey spleen and empty spleen in the beehive in time, or store them in the relay box, gradually concentrate the son and spleen in the nest box, put the small ones on both sides, the large ones in the middle, and keep about 500 grams of edge honey on each spleen. There is no empty spleen in the hive, no new spleen, no measures to expand the hive, keep the honeycomb route 9-10 mm, make the hive dense to protect the spleen, and continue to breed overwintering bees on the basis of the existing spleen.

Second, break the seed at the right time to complete the hive.

When the last honey source is terminated, the queen bee cannot develop into an overwintering bee even if it continues to lay eggs, but consumes its physical strength in vain, causing it to age and die prematurely, weakening the population potential, and consuming feed at the same time. For this reason, in order to break the seed at the right time, we can take the method of increasing the bee path and reducing the nest temperature. Timely amputation should be carried out when the spleen is childless, so as not to damage the bee. The king cage with the queen bee isolation shed can also be used to keep the queen bee in the king cage. The worker bees enter and leave freely through the isolation shed and come into direct contact with the queen bee, which can avoid the encirclement of the queen bee and the rise of the temperature of the hive. It is advisable to seal the honey spleen and arrange the honeycomb with slightly more honeybees than spleen. If the spleen is not covered, arrange the beehive with empty or half-empty spleen, replace the uncovered spleen or pollen spleen, and then add it to the colony after excretion in early spring.

Third, skillfully use drugs to control mites

Before winter, acaricide No. 1 can be used to spray the bee with 14000 liquid, and 2 pieces of mites should be placed diagonally in the middle of the nest and spleen.

Fourth, replenish winter materials and increase population potential

Generally use mature honey or pure white sugar as winter material, 4-5 frame bees fill 10-13 kg of honey, weak groups fill more, in order to increase the population potential. When using honey as a winter ingredient, add 3-4 kg of water to 50 kg of honey and heat it to 70 ℃ in a pot for half an hour to dissolve and crystallize. Winter honey should be kept clean and strictly prevent oil and other substances from being mixed in. Use white sugar as the winter ingredient, add 28-33 kg water with 50kg white sugar. Heat the water to 100℃ before adding sugar. When the sugar is completely melted, heat it to 100℃, remove and cool, then feed it. During supplementary feeding, one after another should be fed in a short period of time, and the honey feeding time should not be extended to prevent the queen bee from laying eggs.

Fifth, tube nests and spleen to survive the winter

For the overwintering bee colony, it is necessary to keep the bee spleen commensurate or slightly more than the spleen, do not have a wide difference between the spleen, because the spleen is too much, the bee is not concentrated, the bee is too hot, and the feeding consumption is fast. Outdoor overwintering bee colony can be slightly more than spleen, 4.5-5 frame bee put 4 spleen, in order to adapt to climatic conditions. Put the sealed honey spleen on both sides, the poor one in the middle, and the empty nest room in the middle, which is beneficial to the colony and reduce the fermentation of uncovered honey. Add a partition to the outside of the hive, cover it with cloth, and cover it with a few sheets of paper to prevent the cold wind from blowing directly into the hive. In late autumn, it is necessary to reduce the activity of bees so as not to drain their physical strength.