How much is the queen bee?

The queen bee, also known as mother bee, queen bee, etc., is a female bee with fully developed reproductive organs, which is developed from fertilized eggs, usually only one for each colony. The quality of the queen bee determines the strength of the colony, and a high-quality queen bee is a necessary condition to ensure high yield. let's take a look at how much the queen bee costs.

How much is the queen bee?

The price of the queen bee generally varies from 100 yuan to several hundred yuan, and the price varies with the quality of the queen bee.

The selection method of queen bee

1. Young: the queen bee usually lives for 4-5 years in the colony, but after 2 years, the spawning ability will gradually weaken. Therefore, to choose the queen bee, you should choose the young one, and the one who is 1-2 years old is better.

2, body length: the queen bee's body is long, the ovary tube is long, and there will be more eggs. Generally, a fine queen bee with a body length of about 25 mm should be chosen, and the body length should not be less than 20 mm.

3. Individual size: under normal circumstances, a large-weight queen bee has well-developed reproductive organs and lays more eggs. During the peak spawning period, it can lay 1000 to 2000 eggs a day. The total weight of eggs can often exceed the weight of the queen bee itself. Generally, you should choose an excellent queen bee with a weight of more than 300 mg.

4. Strong spawning ability: a good queen bee should not only lay more than a thousand eggs a day, but also lay neatly one spleen before it goes to another spleen. If a queen bee lays only a few hundred eggs a day and lays scattered on the spleen, dozens of eggs are produced here and there, which is very irregular, it will affect the colony development and honey production, and should be eliminated.

The inducement method of queen bee

1. Indirect inducement: indirect inducement of the queen bee is the use of instruments to induce the queen bee, the queen bee is safe and easy to accept, especially the seed queen bee and the colony lost for a long time into the new queen bee, safe and reliable. Using a full-frame inducer to induce the queen bee is safe and does not affect the oviposition of the queen bee. Put the hive spleen of the queen bee and bee into the full frame inducer, there should be some honey on the spleen, close the upper cover, put it into the kingless group, after 3-4 days, remove the full frame inducer. As the queen bee has lived in the colony for a period of time, spawning is normal and is easy to be accepted by the colony.

2. Direct inducement: put the queen bee directly into the colony without a queen. It is usually used in the honey period, or when changing kings immediately, which is mainly based on personal experience, and there are a variety of methods. In the evening, spray a little honey at the queen bee and put it on the frame beam in front of the no-king group's nest or on the frame beam of the nest spleen, let it climb into the nest. It can also be proposed from the kingless group that two frames of bees shake off in front of the nest and put the queen bee into the bee, allowing the queen bee and the bee to climb into the hive together. When replacing the queen bee, it is proposed to eliminate the queen bee's nest spleen, take the queen bee away, and immediately put the replaced queen bee on the nest spleen and put it into the colony. Honey or smoke can also be sprayed into the seductive group.

3. Rescue of the encirclement queen: after the queen bee directly or indirectly is released, or the bee theft occurs, or the new queen bee mating returns to its nest by mistake, it may be surrounded and bitten by bees. Observed from outside the box, if the bees are in disorder, they immediately open the box and check. There is a bee ball between the nest and spleen or at the bottom of the box, that is, the queen bee is surrounded, and the bee ball can be put into the water to force the bees to disperse and catch the queen bee to check. If the queen bee is not disabled, use a safety inducer to fasten it on the nest spleen to re-lure the queen bee, otherwise the queen bee will be eliminated, correct the problems in the colony, and re-lure the queen bee.

4. Flight treatment: when the queen bee is directly or indirectly induced and released, sometimes the queen bee will fly away. If the lid of the box is open, leave it as it is, and soon the queen bee will fly back. If the lid of the box is closed and the original condition is changed, when the queen bee flies back, he is often killed by straying into his group.