Recently, a bee friend asked a question that listened to the bees: His swarm of male bees asked if they were going to divide the bees?
Listening to bees for this question suggests that to find the answer, you must first figure out under what circumstances the bees will bee; listening to the bees summarizes the following points:
First, the bee colony should be divided into bees and male bees.
Before the bee colony is ready to divide the bees, the male bees will appear, which is mostly concentrated in the beekeeping season and when the swarm of bees is relatively large; for example, in the spring, the male bees are basically the reasons for the bees to bee; in other seasons, if you want to judge whether it is a bee, the first thing is to look at the size of the bee colony, and the second is to see the state of the queen bee; if the bee colony is large and the queen is healthy, then the male bee is also to divide the bees.
In addition, we can judge whether it is a bee division by observing the royal platform inside the bee colony, generally after the male bee of the swarm, if there are multiple royal platforms inside the hive, it is necessary to divide the bees. At this point, we must manually divide the bees in advance.
Second, the bee colony will change the king will be the male bee.
In the process of the development of the bee colony, if it encounters a time to change the king, the bee colony will also rise up to meet the tail of the new king. Common mother-daughter nesting is a common phenomenon of bees changing kings themselves; to judge whether the bee swarm belongs to the king after the male can observe the king platform to further judge, generally speaking, the change of the king will only appear to alternate the king platform, and the alternating king platform is generally only one. There are also two other aspects to refer to: 1, the existing queen bee is not the old queen bee, and whether the current various functions have been degraded to a certain extent, such as the small number of eggs, poor egg laying effect, slow action and so on. 2, whether the bee colony is an ordinary group, if it is a large group, it may be to divide the bees, if it is a small group and an ordinary group, when there is only one king platform, it is most likely to change the king.
Third, the quality of the queen bee is poor.
The queen bee is old, and the poor quality of the queen bee will lead to poor quality of the eggs laid, and it is easy to get male bees at this time. At this time, we have two very good reference bases to judge: 1. The queen bee itself has various characteristics of poor quality. 2, bee swarms are mostly small groups, and they always feel sick.
Fourth, worker bees lay eggs.
Worker bees are underdeveloped and will also be males after spawning, but more obviously we see black bees. At this time, the bee colony is terminally ill, and it is easy to judge.
Fifth, the nest spleen is inferior, and the nest base is used incorrectly.
If you use an unreasonable nest foundation, the room eye is too large, then it is easy to rise the male bee table; for example, the middle bee uses the nest base, and the meaning bee uses the unreasonable nest spleen with the room eye.
If you use an inferior nest spleen, the bee appears to be rebuilt, then the male bee spleen comes out, because the bee will not make a suitable nest spleen by itself, which is a common reason for the bee swarm to rise male.
It is not difficult to see through the above five reasons: the bee colony is not necessarily divided into bees, but most of them are caused by bad reasons; as long as we find out the causes according to the actual situation of our own bee colonies and deal with the symptoms, we can effectively solve them.
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