Why should bee colonies fed vitamin C during spring? During the spring season, there are always many beekeeping articles that report that vitamin C is added to the water fed, and some are fed

Why should bee colonies fed vitamin C during spring?

During the spring breeding period, there will always be a lot of beekeeping articles reported, some are added to the water fed with vitamin C, some are added to the pollen of the feeding, so why do we beekeepers add vitamin C to the bee colony during the spring breeding period?

Vitamin C for us humans mainly plays a role in improving human immunity, etc., that is completely proof, the same for bees can also play a role in improving the immunity of bees, if the immunity of bees is improved, bees will not be easy to infect with various diseases.

So why do we beekeepers choose to feed vitamin C to bees during the spring and rarely report vitamin C to bees at other times?

Because it is vitamin C for bees, its source is mainly in the pollen, we beekeepers in the early stage of spring breeding know, that is, the lack of powder sources in the outside world, bees can not collect fresh pollen from the outside, if the bees can not collect fresh pollen from the outside, wintering bees are unable to feed all the nutrients needed by the larvae, it is impossible to cultivate the young bees.

So our beekeepers only have the pollen collected from the bees at the gate of the nest with a depowder to get the pollen off, and then dry it and store it for the next spring, which can be said that this is what we beekeepers do every year. If you have no separation of pollen, you have to buy pollen for spring reproduction, so that when there is no powder source in the outside world in the early stage of spring reproduction, you can artificially feed the bee colony pollen, so that the bee colony can be normally fed larvae in the early spring to reproduce healthy young bees.

But now that we have sufficient reserve pollen to feed the swarm in the early stages of spring, can't vitamin C bees bee completely obtain from the pollen stored in replenishment? In fact, bees simply cannot get a more comprehensive vitamin C component from feeding stored pollen.

Because we beekeepers have separated the pollen collected by the bees from the outside with a depowder at the gate of the nest, its moisture content is very high, and we beekeepers must dry these wet pollens before they can store it.

These moisture-containing wet pollen in the process of drying, especially in the sun under the direct drying of pollen, the ultraviolet rays in the sun will make the vitamin C in these pollens be destroyed in large quantities, plus we beekeepers in the process of storing these dried pollen, vitamin C will lose a part, so that we beekeepers in the early stage of spring feeding the stored dry pollen content of vitamin C, will be greatly reduced and reduced, but also our beekeepers in the spring bee colony is prone to disease.

Therefore, our experienced beekeepers will feed some vitamin C tablets to the bee colony during the spring breeding period every year.

Because the dose of vitamin C is difficult for us beekeepers to grasp the accurate dose, there will often be more situations, as the bee colony during the spring breeding in the case of high vitamin C, if it is suddenly stopped on the bee colony of vitamin C feeding, it will cause bee sepsis, so during the spring feeding of vitamin C, to gradually reduce the dose, and finally in the minimum vitamin C supplement dose, and then stop feeding vitamin C, is the safest way to feed the colony vitamin C.