Brief introduction to the production of royal jelly

Royal jelly is the secretion of glands such as tongue gland (commonly known as royal jelly gland) and upper palatal gland of worker bees. it is the lifelong food of worker bees, drones larvae and queens within 3 days old.

With the difference of florescence, production season and bee species, royal jelly is milky white to yellowish curd, with sour, spicy, astringent and slightly sweet taste.

Royal jelly is a kind of natural health product, which has no harm to human body and has a wide range of application. Men, women, old and young can all benefit. After taking it, it can improve the immune function of the body, promote post-disease rehabilitation, and has obvious auxiliary effect on hypertension, hyperlipidemia, neurasthenia, arteriosclerosis, skin damage and other diseases.

1. Production conditions

The required temperature is above 15 degrees and there is no continuous cold wave. The nectar source is abundant and continuous, especially the pollen is abundant, which is in the auxiliary nectar source stage or the main nectar source stage, and there will be no shortage of nectar sources within 15 days.

The heat preservation packaging within the colony has been removed and it is in the proliferation period; the growth rate of the population is accelerating, and the accumulation of young bees tends to be surplus, but serious bee fever has not occurred yet.

2. Preparation for pulp production

The tools for producing royal jelly include: pulp collecting frame, base strip, worm transfer needle, equipment for scraping royal jelly, knife, tweezers and pulp storage bottle, etc. The specification of the pulp frame is similar to that of the nest frame, the upper beam and side strip are both 13mm, and there are 4 slats with width of 13mm and thickness of 6-8mm in the frame. It is called the platform base plate, which is used for installing the platform base strip, and the table base board had better be able to flip freely.

When the number of pulp-producing bees reaches more than 8 frames, the production of royal jelly can be started. If the flat box is used to produce pulp, the spleen should be tightened properly so that the bee is slightly more than the spleen. The box is divided into two areas, namely, the breeding area and the pulp production area. The queen bee and 4 spleen (old pupa, empty spleen, egg spleen) were released in the breeding area for bee colony reproduction, and honey powder spleen, new pupa spleen, larval spleen and plasma frame were placed on both sides of the serous area. The bee colony with relay box is placed between the nest and relay box with a flat partition board, which is also divided into 2 zones, and the upper and lower regions of the nest spleen are arranged in the order mentioned above. In order to make more offspring and bees of a queen bee to produce jelly, the method of producing royal jelly with royal group and partition board is adopted.

3. Production of royal jelly

The base strip of the platform is tied to the base plate with a frame line, and the bottom of the paste strip is pasted flat to the base plate. Then place a little honey in each base and let the worker bees clean for 30 to 60 minutes. When a new white or yellow wax appears on the platform, the migratory worm is proposed.

Most of the pulps are produced by one-time worm transfer method, and the best age is 12-12-20 hours. The worm transfer should be fast and accurate, the age is balanced, no needle injury, and the survival rate and acceptance rate are high. Pay attention to the heat preservation and use time of the insect spleen, each insect spleen is not more than 1 hour outside the group, and the used insect spleen is sent back to the original group in time. In order to save the time of looking for insect spleen, it is best to select the breeding group before pulp production. The plasma frame after worm transfer is immediately put into the production group, and the size of the bee path depends on the number of bees. The bee path is slightly smaller when there are fewer bees, and slightly larger when there are more bees. A conditional beehive. The plasma frame can be put forward 4 hours after worm transfer to replace the larvae whose daily age is the same as that of other larvae.

Pulping was carried out for 65 hours after worm transfer, and the peak period could be advanced by several hours. When raising the pulp frame from the bee colony, move the nest and spleen on both sides of the frame slightly and move outward to ensure that the frame is not squeezed or touched by the king platform. The worker bees attached to the jelly frame should be swept away gently with a bee brush and should not be shaken hard to prevent the royal jelly from shaking off or causing the insect body to fall into the jelly and reduce the production of royal jelly.

After taking out the pulp frame, cut off the beeswax from the elevated part of the base with a sharp knife, cut it flat and neatly to reveal the shape of the original foundation, and then use tweezers to clip the larvae in the base. Finally, the royal jelly is taken out and scraped into the pulp bottle by gently scraping along the inner wall of the platform foundation with a pulp pen or scraping shovel. The one-time scraping can be reused. Then scrape off another one.

After the whole frame of royal jelly is removed, the beeswax in and around the unaccepted platform is cut off with a knife, and a little residual paste is dipped into the final receiving base with a pulping pen, then the worm is transferred and put back into the production group.

4. Storage of royal jelly

Most of the productive beehives are in the mountains and in the wild, and there is no cold storage equipment, so the mouth of the bottle should be sealed after taking the pulp. Store the pulp bottle in mountain spring and cold water. Or dig a pit 1-2m deep in the shaded and ventilated place of the beehive, with a built-in bucket, put the jelly bottle into it, keep the bottle below 10 ℃ for 7 days, and send it to the purchasing unit as soon as possible to prevent high temperature from affecting the quality of royal jelly.