Another week is China's traditional festival Qingming Festival, for many of our friends, Qingming Festival is a day to miss relatives, for farmers, Qingming Festival is a festival suitable for sowing, so there is an old folk saying called "before and after the Qingming, plant melons and beans." But for us beekeepers, the Qingming Festival is a harvest season, and many agricultural products are just the opposite, because what bees need is only nectar and pollen of plants, so the harvest season of beekeepers is mostly in the spring.
For the Qingming Festival, many flowers have bloomed, and many places of rape flowers are slowly approaching the end, so the bee's hive is usually full of larvae at this time, honey foot, but also the key time for bees to multiply, so we have friends who have lived in the countryside know that at this time, it is very easy to see bees separating in the wild.
In addition to seeing bees separate, people now know more and more about bees, there are many beekeepers will also trap wild bees at this time, and the success rate is getting higher and higher, in the countryside when many beekeepers trap wild bees, there will be a variety of judgment basis, there are also a variety of treatment methods, of which male bees in the bee separation of the family has played a vital role, and in the process of our trapping of bees, the role of male bees is also a lot.
Recently, some netizens found that there were male bees in their traps, asking whether such a hive indicates that the bees have moved in, how to deal with it next? In fact, if there are male bees in our beehives, it means that there have been two changes in our beehives, if not handled properly, it is still easy to lead to the failure of breeding after the bees are harvested, and then the small editor of the bee tribe will come to share with you how to deal with it when we find that there are male bees in the beehives.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > the role of male bees in the process of bee separation</h1>
Because the male bees belong to the seasonal bees, only when there is a queen in the bee colony that needs to mate, so the time when a large number of male bees appear in the bee colony, under normal circumstances, only when the bee is divided, and this time, before the emergence of the royal platform in the bee colony, experienced beekeepers also use the time when the male bees appear in the bee colony to judge the time of the appearance of the royal platform in the bee colony, and it is widely used in modern bee breeding.
In modern bee breeding, the commonly used migration of insects has a reference standard, that is, to the time of male bee appearance as a reference, if it is found that there are male bees in and out of the bee colony, it means that the queen bee can be cultivated, and the queen bee cultivated at this time, when the queen bee is sexually mature, the male bee is also just sexually mature, to achieve the purpose of "eugenics".
It is precisely because of this, under natural conditions, a bee colony that wants to occur naturally divide the bees, often in the bee colony before the bee division will produce a large number of male bees, the beekeeping industry calls this phenomenon bee division fever, is an important criterion for judging whether a bee colony is about to be divided, and it has a very important role in our control of the development of the bee colony.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="6" What does it mean to have a male bee in a beehive >? </h1>
Bees are highly socialized social insects, its division of labor is very strict, each level of bees have their own work to do, for male bees, the main job of male bees is to mate with the queen, and even after mating male bees die immediately, so male bees in the bee colony will not participate in other work, then after we put the bee trap bucket, if there are male bees inside, it means that there may have been two changes in our bee trap bucket:
(1) The bee colony has moved in: the bee bucket is mainly used to find the habit of the bee to find a place, and the nest that the bees like to lure the bees to stay, and then take it home to raise the principle, the occurrence of this process is first to scout the bees to smell the bait we put, and then to the bee barrel to verify, and then bring the news to the bee colony, when the family is separated, after layers of screening, the bee colony under the leadership of the scout bee finally stays in the bee bucket we placed.
There is a detail in this, that is, the reconnaissance bee, the reconnaissance bee is the reconnaissance address and the like, these bees are all worker bees, so if we find that there are male bees in and out of a bee trap bucket, it means that the bee colony has moved in.
(2) The colony of bees may be a queen colony: as mentioned above, the role of the male bee is to mate with the queen, it is obvious that if the queen of the bee in the bee colony is a mated spawning queen, the male bee follows the separation of the family is meaningless, the bees are separated when the old king is separated, but if the bees are continuously divided, it is possible that the queen without mating is separated, in this case, the separated bee colony will contain a large number of male bees, which has been confirmed in the actual breeding.
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Many beekeepers are worried that the bees will fly away after seeing the bees in the bee trap bucket, so they immediately put on the anti-escape film on the bee trap bucket, and do not want to confirm such an operation, resulting in some bee colonies failing to breed, in fact, in the view of the small editor of the bee tribe, if there are a large number of male bees following in the bee trap bucket, it can almost be judged that the queen in the bee colony is a queen, which cannot be on the anti-escape film.
Once the queen bee can not mate, the colony will only perish, because the queen bee needs to go out to mate, and the anti-escape film may block the queen in the hive, and finally the queen bee in the case of long-term inability to mate appears parthenogenesis, a large number of male bees appear in the swarm, and finally slowly the swarm is extinguished, which we should pay attention to.
When we see the presence of male bees in the bee trap bucket, the best way for this bee colony is not to disturb, the general bees are in the time of separation are sufficient honey sources, will not be hungry, let the bees breed freely is the best principle, as long as the bees live in the bee trap bucket, there will generally be no accidents, we need to pay attention to the vicinity of the bee bucket there is no enemy, we choose the location is in line with the habits of the bees, and then wait for the bees to freely mate, and then lay eggs.
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