Introduction: What are the benefits of bees feeding citric acid, is it a problem that can be fed to bees, in fact, in the process of beekeeping, the appropriate choice of time to feed a little citric acid has many benefits for bees, but the feeding method should also be correct, and the feeding method is not correct, which will also pose a threat to the bees. Let's take a look at the use of citric acid in the beekeeping process.
We all know that bee microsporosis and amoeba disease is a common protozoal animal disease of bees, in bee breeding these two diseases are also commonly used citric acid for prevention and treatment, the reason why citric acid has a therapeutic effect on these two kinds of bee disease, the main reason is that citric acid has the effect of promoting bee digestion, and bee microsporidiosis and bee amoeloses disease have a very strong ability to adapt to the harsh environment, general drugs have no effect on these two diseases at all, but the resistance of these two pathogens in an acidic environment will become weaker, It's easy to kill.
Bee protozoal disease is a common disease in the early spring of the bee, in the early spring is extremely easy to control a large number of people, so experienced beekeepers in the early spring bee breeding, will add a small amount of citric acid to the bee's feed, in order to prevent the occurrence of bee digestive tract diseases, from this point of view, a small amount of feeding bees citric acid in early spring is no problem.
Bee snail disease is also a common digestive tract disease of bees, belongs to one of the bee reptile bee disease, the diseased bee has the typical characteristics of reptile bees, generally with bee amoe worm disease, bee microsporidiosis at the same time, the formation of reptile bee syndrome. The characteristics of bee spiroplasmosis are also inhibited under acidic conditions, so for bee spiroplasma disease, it is also possible to add a small amount of citric acid to the bee feed.
The use of citric acid in beekeeping is mainly used as a prevention, generally used in early spring, the amount of use can not exceed the standard, for prevention, the common method is to add a gram of citric acid to a kilogram of syrup. If it is a treatment, it requires a special dosage, such as the treatment of spiroplasma disease in bees, usually 700 ml of water plus 300 grams of sugar, and then add 30 to 50 grams of citric acid.
As a way of prevention, the addition of citric acid to bee feed is commonly added in the wintering feed of bees and added when the bees are in spring, if there is no citric acid, it can also be replaced with rice vinegar, as a precaution usually uses 1 kg of syrup, 50 ml of rice vinegar for prevention.
Many friends in the use of citric acid to prevent bee diseases, due to the fear of bad effect, easy to add more citric acid, many friends found that in the case of adding too much citric acid is easy to lead to honey crystallization, although citric acid helps bees digestion, but in the wintering time honey crystallization is serious it is easy to cause bees can not eat honey, the phenomenon of bees being starved to death, so citric acid to prevent bee digestive tract disease is good, but must be strictly controlled amount, otherwise it may be counterproductive.