How to restore the population potential and make use of Honey Source the main points of the management of honeybees in spring

The aim of bee colony management in spring is to keep strong colony status and make full use of effective honey source to obtain high yield and maximum benefit when the main nectar source period comes. For example, autumn management is sowing, winter management is seedling protection, so spring management is seedling. Only when the roots are strong and the seedlings are strong can we win a bumper harvest.

Early Spring Bee Management

1. Observe outside the box and make early plans. In warm sunny early spring, bees will fly out of the nest excretion, at this time to carefully observe bee activities. The bees fly very vigorously, indicating good winter; The more bees fly out, the stronger the bee colony; Bee belly swelling, lying on the front board of the nest excretion, which indicates that the bee colony feed bad or damp; Bees out of the box slow, flying bees less, and listless, indicating that the bee colony is weak; Bees out of the nest disorderly crawling on the hive, as if looking for something, put their ears close to the side of the box, hear chaos in the box, which indicates that the group lost the king. For abnormal bee colonies, mark them in time to prepare for special inspection and corresponding remedies after large-scale flying activities.

Second, rapid inspection, timely improvement. With the temperature rising, at noon on a warm and windless sunny day, all bee colonies are quickly inspected, mainly to find out the "strong, medium and weak" of bee colony, the "more, enough, less and lack" of feed, the "presence and absence" of queen bee, whether the nest is wet, and whether there are signs of mildew and diarrhea. According to the workload and time of checking bee colonies, it can be improved in time for different problems. Feed is insufficient, can reserve honey spleen timely transfer to urgently needed bee colony; Where lost king or inferior king weak group, should be quickly merged; There are signs of moisture, timely replacement of moisture; At the same time can also clean the bottom of the box, clean up bee corpses, residual wax and so on.

Third, strengthen the insulation, promote the queen to lay eggs early: humans have "spring cover autumn freeze" said, in fact, bees are also so, early spring insulation is more important than winter insulation. This is because early spring night, early morning or cold wave comes, the temperature is lower, easy to freeze the spleen larvae eggs, and then affect the colony rejuvenation, reduce benefits. Strengthen heat preservation, first of all should be dense swarm potential, keep bees spleen commensurate, and with the increasing temperature and swarm potential development, appropriate adjustment, the lowest per frame to 60 bees. The second is to prevent humidity and replace insulation in time. The third is to adjust the nest door, block the box gap, gradually enlarge the nest door in the morning, after 3 pm, gradually reduce, worker bees do not crowd in and out without fan. The fourth is gradual, late withdrawal packaging, first withdraw the top, retreat four weeks, finally withdraw the bottom, first withdraw the strong group, retreat the weak group, rather withdraw late, not early withdrawal.

IV. Reward feeding and expansion of spawning circle: When the honey powder source is insufficient in spring, reward feeding should be added frequently to stimulate spawning. Such as early spring rape early flowering, low temperature, although pollen, but less nectar, reward feeding is necessary, can be added to the nest spleen sprinkling some syrup, evening plus stimulation spawning. If the queen bee is good, the number of worker bees is abundant, and the climate is good, it is necessary to expand the spawning circle in time. You can change the sub-spleen frame from front to back, or you can transfer the sub-spleen frame to the center. After the sub-spleen is fully expanded, you can add the empty spleen to the outer side of the spawning circle and the side spleen one after another. Note that in early spring when adding breeding spleen, it is best to use dark nest spleen, so that the queen bee easy to accept eggs, but also conducive to heat preservation.

5. Strong and weak complement to speed up the recovery speed of colony potential: due to the poor thermal insulation and nursing ability of weak groups, the expansion range of spawning circle is limited, and it is difficult to give full play to the spawning ability. The strong and weak complement method can be adopted to extract the spleen of weak group eggs to strong groups, let strong groups nurse young bees, and exchange empty spleen to weak groups, so that queen bees can continue to lay eggs. This not only can play a weak group queen laying ability, but also can make full use of strong group nursing ability. When the new bees of strong swarm come out of the house for six times, the cover spleen of the outgoing house with young bees will be supplied to the weak swarm, so as to make the weak stronger, greatly improve the rejuvenation speed of the whole swarm, and make full preparations for the arrival of nectar source period.