Beekeepers who raise medium bees should have a common feeling: medium bees are easy to escape and divide bees, which makes people anxious. Sometimes, if you don't control the problem of dividing bees and escaping bees, you can only watch dozens of boxes of bees get better and better.
It is their natural habit to escape bees and divide bees, after all, the middle bee belongs to the earth bee, that is, the wild bee, and it has not been domesticated like the Italian bee, at best it is only a semi-domesticated species. However, listening to the words of bees, if you do a good job in four aspects, you can greatly reduce the phenomenon of bee escape:
First, the queen bee is the key.
Keeping bees requires a new queen to be replaced at least once a year, and the new queen has a strong ability to carry bees, which can better maintain the colony and reduce the phenomenon of bee division.
Second, conforming to the bee is the key.
When the bee reaches a certain season, it will have the natural habit of dividing bees, and sometimes the bee colony is not large, and there will also be the phenomenon of bee splitting. At this time, we must be diligent in observation, and we must manually divide the bees in advance when there is a precursor. This avoids the colony that is done by natural bee division.
3. Replace the nest spleen in time.
In order to better satisfy their "hobbies", replacing the old nest spleen with a new spleen in time is a powerful measure to reduce the "mood" of bees.
Fourth, food and the environment are key.
(1) Where there is enough food, or where the nectar source is good, there will be very few cases of bee colonies escaping bees.
(2) There is no threat of natural enemies, such as wasps, wax borers and other natural enemies of bees, if the harassment of natural enemies is too serious, it is very easy to escape bees.
(3) The living environment should be superior, not too humid, not too cold, not too hot; If the colony is relatively large, the hives used for beekeeping should not be too small.
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