5 small experiences in bee farming
Iron pot cleverly removes wax: The beeswax in the iron pot is difficult to wash after boiling the spleen and squeezing the wax. My method is to heat the pot on high heat, add rice bran and stir-fry, or wipe it with straw, pour 2 scoops of water to boil, swing around, and finally wash it with warm water to cook and stir-fry.
Wax grain sticks fast: When installing the nest foundation, it is necessary to use molten wax to drop the nest base and the nest frame beam to fix the nest foundation, which is some troublesome. There is a very simple method: take a small pinch of cut foundation strips, extra spleen or crushed wax, knead into a soybean-like wax ball, hold 1 grain each of the two thumbs of both hands and index fingers, squeeze and press a little harder on the opposite sides of the nest foundation, fix 1 box at 5 to 6 o'clock, and after adding the swarm, the nest base will not fall when it is heated and softened. If you wear an extra wire near the upper beam of the nest frame, you can eliminate this process.
Feed pollen at the bottom of the box: Spring bee colonies recover quickly, pollen consumption is large, and during this period, the outside world often encounters long-term low temperature and rainy weather, bees can not go out to collect honey can cut the moso bamboo into a large handful of thin slices of about 50 cm long and 3 to 5 cm wide, scrape the mixed pollen on the bamboo chips, pull up the nest door with an umbrella, and push the bamboo pieces containing pollen from the bottom of the box to the bottom of the spleen, so that the pollen can be fed to the swarms. As long as it is spring and it rains for a long time, you can use this method to feed powder, and the effect is very good. Indoor beehive change: When encountering continuous low temperature rainy and cloudy weather, you can try to change the bee box indoors to reduce losses.
Low temperature Mo base: low temperature fashion good nest base temperature rises to join the bee colony, the nest foundation will be heated deformation, can not make a good spleen, try to avoid low temperature base.
