There are nine ways for bees to prevent "summer decline".

The "summer decline" is generally caused by high temperature. in order to avoid and reduce the "summer decline", the key is to prevent the heat and cool down the bee colony and create a suitable microclimate for the bee colony. The specific measures are as follows:

First, the over-summer beehive should be located under a big tree or in a bamboo orchard, ventilated in a cool place to avoid direct sunlight. The box seats should sit north and face south.

Second, build an Arbor and cover straw on the beehive, plant pumpkin, lentils, towel gourd and other crops to climb the shed to increase the shade layer.

Each beehive is covered with a water-soaked sponge between the secondary cover and the large cover, which can not only reduce the nest temperature, but also can be used for drinking water.

Fourth, the beehive is watered once in the morning, in the middle and in the evening to keep the ground moist and lower the ground temperature.

Fifth, open the air window of the beehive at night to make the air convection inside and outside the box and increase ventilation.

Sixth, artificially feed enough drinking water to reduce the tiredness of collecting water, so as to prolong the life span of the colony. You can use an empty nest spleen, filled with water containing trace amounts of salt, and put it outside the nest partition. It can also dig holes around the beehive to fill with clean water for bees to drink.

Seventh, artificial supplementary feeding should be strengthened during the high temperature season, and appropriate amounts of vitamin B, vitamin C and yeast tablets should be added to the reward sugar solution.

Eighth, during the summer season, we should plan to cultivate a number of new kings to replace the old and inferior kings.

Ninth, use drugs to prevent chalk disease and wing disease, keep germs out of the box door, and cannot wait for the disease or serious illness to be treated.