Recently, some netizens found strange small creatures in the hive, this small creature is flexible in the hive, it can be said that it jumps up and down, it looks a bit like a mutant variety of bee mites, due to fear of causing harm to the bee colony, this netizen put the picture on the network and sought help from netizens. So what exactly is this little creature? Is this a new little creature or has it been in the past? Today, the bee tribe will take you to see it.
Seeing this little creature may have been thought of by many experienced friends, not bad! This is the legendary pseudo-scorpion. Pseudo-scorpions have caused a lot of discussion and research in the beekeeping community, because pseudo-scorpions have the ability to kill bee mites and wax borers, that is to say, pseudo-scorpions can solve the biggest problems faced by bees and bees, so pseudo-scorpions have received the attention of many bee researchers, and are also regarded as the hope of solving the physical treatment of bee bee mites.
In fact, friends who have raised bees know that pseudo-scorpions are not very much heard of in the beekeeping industry, so that many friends do not know what pseudo-scorpions are. Although a large number of research data show that a small number of pseudo-scorpions have a certain role in the killing of bee nests and bee mites, a large number of pseudo-scorpions will still affect the development of bee colonies, but it seems that in the past, few beekeepers in China found pseudo-scorpions in beehives.
According to the netizens who provided the pictures, these pictures come from Kunming's bee breeding chief, there are more in the local apiary, the ability of pseudo scorpions to kill nest insects seems to be unclear, the netizens who provide pictures also have nest insect harm in the bee farm, so the pseudo scorpion's ability to kill nest insects is not clear, but netizens can feel that pseudo scorpions have an impact on bees, mainly reflected in the pseudo scorpions for attaching to the legs of bees, affecting bees to collect honey, and pseudo scorpions are flexible, often wearing through the bee spleen, The netizen believes that the pseudo-scorpion has already had a certain impact on the survival of the bee colony.
In fact, in the past, there were not many reports on pseudo scorpions in China's beekeeping industry, most of which were mainly based on a small number of areas, but according to this netizen, pseudo scorpions already have a certain scale in the local area, and now netizens are not thinking about the problem of protecting pseudo scorpions, but how to eliminate them. Although the pseudo-scorpion has an inhibitory effect on nest insects and bee mites, after all, it is only found useful now, but how useful it is not known, and a large number of pseudo-scorpions will bring threats to the bee colony is already a fact, but it seems that there is no specific control method for pseudo-scorpions, if the pseudo-scorpion floods, how do we deal with it? Maybe that's the problem that our beekeeping industry should solve now.
Well, the above is a little knowledge about the pseudo scorpion shared by the bee tribe today, thanks to the pictures and related introductions provided by our netizens in Kunming. Our beekeeping friends who have encountered this situation and how to deal with this situation may wish to leave a message below to share your response methods, and also let us know more about this strange little creature and make it better serve our beekeeping business.