Now it is the time of mid-to-late March, according to the habit of bee division in China, after entering April, it will be the time for large-scale bee separation, and now some places have begun to separate bees.
Because many bees are now artificially farmed, people's care for bees is more refined, so the quality requirements for bees are getting higher and higher, resulting in many beekeepers hoping to breed more high-quality bee species. As the bee bee stage, the bees will carry out a large number of mating at this time, if at this time we can artificially select the male bees of the bees, theoretically speaking, it is indeed possible to improve the quality of the bees.
In bee farming, whether it is beekeepers or bees, we can see that male bees are very unwelcome, the reason is that the only role of male bees in the bee colony is to provide sperm, once this work is completed, the male bees have almost no use for the bee colony, and the male bees eat a large amount, which is more than three times that of the working bees, resulting in many beekeepers in order to save honey, when seeing too many male bees, they will be artificially eliminated, and the male bees have more time, often when the bees are separated, because the worker bees can control the number of male bees. Therefore, when there is no need for male bees in the bee colony, the number of male bees in a high-quality bee colony will not be too large.
Although some beekeepers will use artificial elimination to reduce the male bees in the bee colony, but this is not a scientific breeding method, if we are large-scale breeding of bees, it is obvious that the manual elimination of male bees is not reliable, so when we talk about the scientific elimination of male bees, we should also understand the method of fundamentally solving the problem of too many male bees.
Generally speaking, if we want to fundamentally solve the problem of too many male bees, as long as we pay attention to the use of standard beehives to breed bees, use standard complete nest foundations, breed high-quality queen bees and replace them regularly. Then even if there are some male bees in the bee colony is also a normal phenomenon, the bee is an ancient creature, even if the queen bee is very good, it will also give birth to some male bees in the bee colony, which is an emergency mechanism, which belongs to the instinct of the bee, and we cannot make the queen bee a male bee do not produce.
With this knowledge, now let's take a look at how to eliminate male bees when we breed bees, which is more scientific, which is conducive to our cultivation of high-quality queen bees, the quality of the queen bees becomes better, and the quality of the next generation is naturally improved, so as to achieve the purpose of improving the quality of bees as a whole.
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If we are breeding medium bees, because the specific conditions of our breeding bees are different, the methods we use to eliminate male bees are not exactly the same, let's take a look at them separately:
(1) There are still bees in the wild: If there are more bees in the wild where we breed bees, then in theory, all the male bees in the bee farm are eliminated, but we must pay attention to measuring the number of bees in the wild, if too few, we must also consider the shortage of male bees.
The reason is that the bees in the wild live in the natural state, maintain a high wild nature, the survival ability is relatively strong, the honey collection ability and defense ability are relatively good, the use of these bees and our breeding bees hybridization, one is to avoid the possibility of inbreeding, the other is to improve the quality of male bees, more conducive to cultivating high-quality offspring.
(2) There are no male bees in the wild: If there is no male bee in the wild, we cannot eliminate the male bees, otherwise it may lead to the queen not being able to find the male bees, and finally the phenomenon of parthenogenesis will occur, but it is also possible to improve the quality of offspring by exterminating male bees.
Although the queen bee will choose the male bees when mating, it does not mean that inferior male bees have no possibility of mating at all, so being able to eliminate inferior male bees is still of great benefit to us in cultivating high-quality offspring.
So how do we kill it without bees in the wild? The method is to eliminate all male bees in the poor quality bee colony in the bee farm, so that the male bees in the high-quality bee colony can be mated, and the quality of the parent gene is improved as much as possible, so as to produce more high-quality offspring.
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We all know that at present, in addition to the bees in China, there are Italian bees introduced from abroad, and the number of both kinds of bees is larger, more than 90% of the bee products are Italian bee production, which shows that the distribution of Italian bees in China is not much.
Although the biological characteristics of the Italian bee and the middle bee are similar, but there are still more differences, just like the production of bee products, the middle bee is obviously much less than the Italian bee, and the Italian bee is an exotic species, if you consider extermination, we should also choose according to the characteristics of the Italian bee in the country, then the main is divided into the following situations:
(1) There are other local people raising Italian bees: Because there is reproductive isolation between Italian bees and middle bees, even if there are wild bees outside, we can't be treated as male bees, because Italian bees can't be wild, so if we have other local farmers to breed Italian bees, we can also avoid inbreeding and other bee farms to alternately breed male bees and queen bees to achieve hybridization of bee species.
(2) No one else breeds Italian bees: If the local family breeds Italian bees, then the bees in addition to using the male bees of our own apiary, the male bees outside can not be used at all, so we can only choose male bees from our own bee farms as bee species, here we only need to pay attention to two points, eliminate the male bees in the inferior bee colony and the male bees in the breeding queen group and the male bees in the breeding queen group, because the male bees in the breeding queen group basically do not mate with the queen bee, even if mating, the quality of the offspring is also poor. Also pay attention to the introduction of high-quality queens on a regular basis in order to keep the bee species of high quality.
On the issue of exterminating male bees, or the above point of view, it is best to use the habits of bees to fundamentally extinguish, rather than using artificial cutting of nests and other ways, and if we want to cultivate high-quality bee species, we only need to pay attention to two conditions, one is the high quality of male bees, the other is to avoid inbreeding, which is the basic principle that we can produce more high-quality bee species after we eliminate male bees, what do you think about this? Welcome to leave a comment below, like a friend to click a follow, we will see you tomorrow.