People who like to collect bees in the wild do not necessarily have good beekeeping techniques, but most of them have the heart of beekeeping. If the bees that are collected are not well handled, they will not only quarrel and fight, but also cause the whole group to escape. Before the Minnan bee brother has written an article on tying the spleen through the box, mainly teaching everyone how to deal with the bee colony that has been harvested back, but there are many shortcomings in the method of tying the spleen through the box, so the next Minnan bee brother wants to share another, faster, easier and more practical bee colony box method.
In the eyes of laymen, collecting bees in the wild is a very incredible thing, so many bees, how to collect them one by one? In fact, beekeepers understand that the queen bee is collected by the queen bee, as long as the queen finds and catches it, the remaining bees will naturally fly over to find the queen bee, so the skill of collecting bees in the wild is to catch the queen bee. Our fast boxing method this time is also a bee boxing technique carried out under the premise of receiving the queen bee and closing the queen separately.
Before the bees pass through the box, prepare an empty hive and a small partition, the hive door is installed with an anti-escape piece, the small partition is adjusted to the position above the door of the other hive of the hive, and the hive cover is placed next to the hive where it can be easily obtained. Remember, with this fast boxing technology, the beehive should use a large lid, not a sunken beehive, nor a gauze mesh, and after the beehive lid is closed, there must be a certain space inside to accommodate an empty beehive. In addition, the position of the beehive, it is best to choose no other bee colony next to it, the position is more independent, after the bee colony passes the box, and then move about 1 meter every day to move the hive to the position where you want to put the bees.
After the bees are recovered, first hang in a ventilated and cool place, let the bees sit for ten to half an hour, and then go to other bee colonies, choose a nest spleen with honey, pollen, and larvae, and then shake off the bees on it, remember that the bees should shake clean, and finally put this nest spleen on the side of the nest door where the anti-escape film is installed and adjust the bee path, but the small partition does not move, or place it in the position above the door of another nest. If the received swarm is relatively large, you can prepare a nest base frame in advance, and then insert it into the side of the spleen of the nest that is transferred, and the bee path can be adjusted to the minimum.
When passing through the box, the beekeeper first lay the beehive cage flat on the bee frame and the small partition, and then slowly opened the bee cage, the opening of the bee cage was opened to the maximum and the mesh cloth was turned up, and then the cage containing the queen bee was raised, placed on the top of the bee frame, and finally the entire bee cage was erected and covered between the bee frame and the small partition, and then covered with the beehive cover. When the cage is opened, a small number of bees will fly out, the beekeeper does not need to be nervous, and the bees will fly into the hive by themselves.
After this treatment, the bees will not be chaotic, nor will a large number of rush out of the flying, a small part of the outside flying is normal, and then in the evening, and then the collection cage will be lifted up, and then the small partition to the hive position, the collection cage is placed on the outside of the small partition, the remaining bees inside the bee cage, will climb to the nest spleen on their own. After this processing, the queen bee can be released. Note that when releasing the queen bee, do not pinch the legs and feet of the queen bee, and do not let the queen fly away. The next day, the cage was brought up, and the whole box operation was completed, so that the colony of bees in the box was not noisy, noisy, and did not fly away.