Preparation for artificial breeding of queen bee

Before artificial rearing, the following preparations need to be done:

The main results are as follows: (1) choose the healthy and disease-free colony whose honey or royal jelly output exceeds the average yield of the whole field, the distribution of honey is weak and the population develops rapidly. The father colony is the colony that provides the drones, and the mother colony is the colony that provides the queen. Both parent and parent groups are used to cultivate bee larvae. A single parent group can also breed thousands of drones. If one or two groups of species are used to breed queens and drones every year, the whole colony will form inbreeding, reducing productivity and vitality. Therefore, it is necessary to select and use multiple colonies as parents and mothers, and regularly introduce queens (or colonies) of the same breed and different lineages from the breeding grounds.

(2) the quantity and quality of breeding drones are directly related to the mating success rate of queens everywhere, as well as the effect of pollination, and then affect the pros and cons of offspring. Therefore, the cultivation of drones must be started 20 days before the artificial rearing king. in order to breed drones, it is necessary to prepare the spleen of drones in advance, and the lower part of the spleen of the nest can also be removed and inserted in a strong colony to form the spleen of drones. Because queen bees mate many times and drones mate once, which ensures the quality of mating, the number of fathers should be as large as possible, and drones are generally bred according to the ratio of one queen to 50 drones. The development of queen bee from egg to Eclosion adult is 16 days, and it takes about 5 days to reach sexual maturity, a total of 21 days. On the other hand, it takes about 12 days for drones from egg to Eclosion adult, and from room to sexual maturity, a total of 36 days. Therefore, drones must be cultivated about 20 days before the artificial rearing king in order to adapt to the sexual maturity of the drones and the virgin queen. Usually, when the species drones begin to come out of the house in large numbers, they can begin to move the insect and breed the king, and at the same time wipe out all the drones and male pupae of other bee colonies in the field.

(3) preparing to breed the king group is a strong colony used to feed the queen bee larvae and pupae. Bees with at least 15 or more bees should be selected as rearing kings, and their queen bees and all their unsealed lid spleen should be brought into a new hive and placed next to the original colony one day before the transfer king. The original group has 6-8 spleen (including capped spleen, honey spleen and powder spleen) to form a king-less breeding king group, which is dense, and many nests and spleen shake off the bees. Add to the separate king group, and feed the king group 0.5-1 kg syrup every night. The queen bee colony with 18-20 frame bees and a relay box can also be used as the breeding king colony, and a king partition board can be added between the nest box and the successor box to separate the queen bee from laying eggs in the nest box, with a box of small larval spleen in the center of the box, a pollen spleen on one side and a lid spleen on the rest. Put the honey spleen on the outside. The acceptance rate of transplanted larvae with kings was higher than that without kings, but it was better for capping Wang Tai.