This year's winter feels more urgent, it seems that there is no autumn directly into the winter, which is not good for our beekeeping friends, such weather, for our bees to collect autumn honey sources have a great impact, directly led to our income reduction.
In our local area, there is a saying called "there is a small Yang Spring in October", which means that no matter how cold the weather is, there will be a few days of warm weather in October, and the bees will collect honey at this time, but from the current situation, it seems that this year's Small Yang Spring really can't be seen.
Although today's weather is too cold, but this situation is not much, generally slowly began to cold, and under normal circumstances, even the autumn bees can be active for some time, even in late autumn, we can occasionally find some wild bees, however, today's bee tribe Xiaobian wants to give you what we are saying is that if we find wild bees in late autumn, no matter how much honey there is, don't take it, because after we take away the honey, this group of bees will die very badly, why does the bee tribe Xiaobian want to say so? Let's move on.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" >why is there so much honey in the colonies found in late autumn? </h1>
Many friends like to look for bees in the autumn, even if they are artificially farmed bees, when they used soil culture in the past, they would also take honey in the autumn, because there was a lot of honey in the bee colony at this time. The reason is that the honey collection of bees is actually to pass the winter and oversummer, so if it is a place with four distinct seasons throughout the year, usually there are two times in the bee colony that are full of honey, one time is late spring, and the other time is late autumn.
The reason is very simple, in the spring when the outside honey source plant is abundant, bees can collect a large amount of nectar, and honey is bees collect nectar brewed, at the end of spring, bees just stored a lot of honey, so if we want to take honey, this is a time-consuming.
Late autumn is also the truth, in the summer due to the high temperature, many places flowing nectar plants are not much, and bee collection is also more difficult, so after entering the autumn, the outside world's autumn honey source plants began to flower, bees can collect a large amount of nectar, in late autumn, these nectar are brewed into honey, stored in the bee colony, so in late autumn, the honey in the bee colony is very much.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" >Why can't you take honey from bees in the wild in late autumn? </h1>
Obviously, after the autumn bees will have to spend the winter, and the bees will not hibernate in the winter, but use the honey stored in the autumn to meet the needs of the whole winter, and the bees want to resist the cold in the winter to reach the second year, the most important way is to eat a lot of honey to produce heat, if the honey is insufficient, the bee colony will be starved to death, so in the bee breeding There is a saying, winter bees, food is more important than warmth, so for the bees after we take honey in the autumn, what kind of response will they make? There are mainly the following coping methods, and it can be said that each way comes at the cost of the life of the bee.
(1) Top style honey: bees are very sensitive to the cold, in general, as long as the temperature drops below 10 degrees Celsius, the honey collection of honey will have a great impact, and for late autumn, in fact, the bees have been prepared for winter, the reason for storing a large amount of honey, is to survive the winter, we suddenly take the honey of the bees away, equivalent to disrupting the bee's plan, then at this time the bees will look for a large number of honey picking opportunities, even if the temperature is very low, which will cause many bees to go out to collect honey and freeze to death outside. In the case of insufficient number of bees, the heat production in the bee colony is affected, which eventually leads to problems in thermogenic production and the bees freeze to death.
(2) The life expectancy of the age-appropriate wintering bees is blocked: We often say that the life span of the worker bees is very short, but for the winter worker bees, many of the lifespan can reach more than half a year, but these worker bees are required, and they are worker bees that have not collected honey and fed larvae before the winter of the previous year.
Bees in the winter, will be a large number of no honey and feeding larvae of the worker bees, we call these bees the age of the wintering bees, if the bees have not gone through these two processes, in the case of warmth and adequate food, the life span can reach more than half a year, if after the feeding and honey picking process, the life expectancy is about a month, and the honey collection is based on the honey storage in the bee colony, if the honey is greatly reduced. Even young bees start collecting honey early.
Obviously, if we take the honey from the bee colony in the winter, not only the old bees will risk collecting honey, but even the age-appropriate wintering bees may also take the risk of participating, in this case, it will inevitably lead to a large number of age-appropriate wintering bees shortening their lifespan, not to mention that they can live to the second year, and may not be able to pass the winter, so the bee colony will naturally all perish.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > the death process was too tragic</h1>
The small editor of the bee tribe once paid attention to the bee colony that froze to death in winter, a very powerful bee colony, just because the food in the bee colony was insufficient, although the temperature was not very low, but it was all frozen to death. After the bee colony froze to death, the bee tribe Xiaobian once opened the hive to observe the situation inside, there were not many bees left in the bee colony, but all concentrated in the center of the honeycomb, and the body was all upside down in the nest room, looking like a mature sunflower.
This shows a problem, a large number of bees braved the cold wind to go out to collect honey and did not come back, the honey in the swarm was all eaten, and the young bees inserted their bodies into the nest room in hunger and cold to wait for the final miracle to happen, but in the end there was no miracle, but they lay in the nest room forever.