For bees, I believe that many friends are familiar with them, and when it comes to bees, many friends first think of honey, and those who prefer bee products may also think of royal jelly, bee pollen and the like, but as food lovers, many friends may not think of bee pupae.
For a bee colony, there is not only one kind of bee in the bee colony, usually contains three kinds of bees, queen bees, male bees, worker bees, due to the small number of queen bees, small worker bees, when selling bee pupae, generally only male pupae are generally sold.
For male bees, although the number of male bees in the normal bee colony is not large, if we want to artificially increase the number of male bees in the bee colony, the method is relatively simple. Because the male bee in the swarm in addition to the tail has no other use, so beekeepers do not like the male bee, as long as it is not the bee period, many beekeepers see the male bees are often killed, the main reason is that the male bees eat a large amount, the honey consumption in the swarm is serious, will seriously affect our honey production.
From the price of male bee pupae, the current price of male bee pupae sold on the Internet is more than 200 yuan a catty, but in the actual breeding, because the male bee has little effect on the bee colony, in addition to the beekeepers do not like, in fact, the worker bees in the bee colony do not like the male bees, so once the queen of bees cross-tail, the worker bees will also expel male bees in the case of lack of food or honey source in the bee colony. Since the price of male bee pupae is so high, and beekeepers have a way to produce male bee pupae, why should beekeepers give up such expensive male bee pupae? In fact, the reason is very simple, we can look at it from the following aspects.
1. The number of male bees produced in normal bee colonies is small
2. Beekeepers lack sales channels
3. The purpose of beekeepers is different
4. Where did the male bees in the market come about?
From the perspective of many people beekeeping, because the pursuit is not male bee pupae, so the beekeeper chases after the normal of the bee colony, for a normal bee colony, in addition to the bee colony will produce more male bees in the bee colony when the bee period and the bee colony alternate, there are not many male bees in the bee colony at other times, and in the normal bee colony, the male bee arrangement on the bee spleen is different from the special production, in the normal bee colony The arrangement position of the male bee on the bee spleen is not fixed, and it is often mixed with the working hive room in the bee colony. Therefore, in the normal bee colony, the male bees on a bee spleen are often scattered in various positions of the nest spleen, resulting in beekeepers wanting to collect these male bees is very difficult, and the number is not much, in order to ensure that there are enough worker bees in the bee colony, beekeepers tend to use the regular nest spleen, improve the quality of the queen bee, and reduce the male bees in the bee colony as much as possible.
For beekeepers, in fact, in general, we are common to two kinds, one is to chase flowers and honey based on the bee breeder, the other is to bee breeders based on fixed breeding, the general intention of bee breeding is often close to the suburban location, and the bee breeding is relatively scattered, the egg-laying ability of the bee is not as strong as the bee, so the use of the bee to produce male bee pupae is actually not very cost-effective, and the breeding of the bee in the countryside is more distributed, which leads to the formation of a stable sales channel, Even if male pupae are found in the breeding process, in order to ensure high honey yield, they will try to minimize the number of male bees.
Although it is easier to find sales channels for Italian bees, but because the breeding of Italian bees is more arduous, it is difficult to form a market in one place after flowers and honey all year round, resulting in the breeding of friends of Italian bees or to cultivate a large number of worker bees for the purpose.
Whether it is the breeding of bees or the breeding of bees, in fact, there is a main purpose of breeding, the most common purpose of breeding is the production of honey or royal jelly, these two production purposes require a large number of male bees in the bee colony, as long as the number of male bees is too much, for the production of royal jelly and the production of honey are harmful, which leads to many beekeepers are reluctant to produce male bees.
Since neither Chinese beekeepers nor Italian beekeepers are willing to produce male bees, how do male bees in the market come from? Maybe that's a question that a lot of friends want to know. In fact, whether it is a bee or a bee, we want to produce male bee pupa is very simple, nothing more than to change the nest spleen in the bee colony, because the queen bee in the bee colony lays eggs according to the size of the nest, as long as we replace the nest spleen in the bee colony with the male hive spleen, so that the bee colony can produce a large number of male bees.
Although beekeepers rarely have male bee sales channels, but there is no shortage of people on the network who can sell male bees, especially now that online e-commerce is developing more and more, some individuals have a certain scale of fans, they have sales capabilities for many products, these people if they want to sell male bee pupae, the best way is to order male bees from beekeepers, and as beekeepers, now the number of young beekeepers is also increasing, sales channels are also changing, there are also some beekeepers can sell their own male bee pupae, After balancing the sales returns of royal jelly and honey, as long as there is money to be made, there must be many beekeepers who are willing to produce male bee pupae, so we can see that there is no shortage of male pupa sales on the Internet.