How to feed water for breeding bees

Bees must collect water to maintain various physiological activities in the body, such as food decomposition, absorption, transportation, excretion of metabolites, and at the same time, water is needed to feed larvae, dissolve honey with high concentration, maintain appropriate temperature in the nest, and lower the nest temperature in hot days. The amount of water needed by a swarm of bees is related to the temperature and humidity of the air outside the hive, the population potential and the number of worms. In order to maintain life and adjust the temperature and humidity of the hive, a normal colony needs to collect 200-300 grams of water every day, especially when the area of the insect spleen in the nest is large and the season of high temperature requires more water. The water mainly comes from the water in the nectar and the water collected by some bees. One bee collects water 50 times per mouth, about 25 mg each time, and 400 water bees can extract up to 0.5 kg of water per day. When the temperature is low in early spring, some bees come out of the nest to collect water and some of them freeze and cannot return to their nests. When there is a shortage of water during transit and overwintering, bees will be restless, leading to tractors, premature senility and death. Jujube flowering period lack of water, there will be wing curling disease and so on. Therefore, attention should be paid to water feeding in daily management. The main methods of water feeding are as follows.

Feeding water in the box has more spleen in the nest in spring and needs more water. Generally combined with reward feeding, the feeder is filled with sugar at night and water in the door.

Nest door water feeding places a bottle or plastic bag holding water on the front of the hive and on the pedal of the nest door (fastening the mouth of the bag). Use gauze to attract water from the bottle to 1 cm inside the nest door, and bees can absorb water from the wet cloth.

The water outside the box is fed with wooden pots, porcelain pots, tile pots, etc. to dig holes on the ground, and the pit is covered with a layer of plastic film to hold water for bees to collect. Pay attention to the surface of the water should put some dry sticks, thin wood chips and so on, so as not to drown the water bees.

Feeding propolis water propolis is a natural substance collected by bees to return to their nests for disease prevention and treatment, containing more than 300 ingredients. Honeybees live and reproduce in hives with high temperature (34 ℃-35 ℃) and high humidity (75% relative humidity). The pollen, royal jelly and honey in the hive can be kept fresh, all on propolis. In production, bee colonies with more glue collection rarely suffer from creeping bee disease and chalk disease. You can feed propolis when you feed water in spring. The preparation method is as follows: 40 grams of original propolis collected by the beehive, mashed and added 95% ethanol (edible ethanol) 100 ml, shake fully once a day, filter impurities with gauze after 9-10 days, and add 5 ml propolis liquid to 100 ml water. Combined with water feeding for 3 days, it can not only prevent disease, but also stimulate bees to get excited and collect more propolis and powdered honey.

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