For friends who have no experience in beekeeping, there may not be a saying that bees are docile, and in the eyes of outsiders, as long as they are bees, they are aggressive, so outsiders usually see bees and stay away, even if the bee colony has their favorite honey.
For industry insiders, whether the bee has a good temper or not, there is a more detailed classification, because experienced beekeepers, more understanding of bees, bee temper is not grumpy, beekeepers can also draw conclusions through comparison, so beekeepers think that the bee is docile and grumpy, is an objective conclusion drawn in the case of contrast, or more scientific.
In the actual bee breeding, in order to make the bees create greater value for us, but also let us breed bees in the process of less dangerous, so beekeepers usually optimize the habits of bees according to their actual breeding situation, such as in the long-term breeding of the bee colony with strong honey collection ability to save, eliminate the bee colony with poor honey collection ability, leave the good temper behind, eliminate the grumpy.
Even in a bee farm, there is a difference between the bee colony and the bee colony, grumpy bees, beekeepers do not like, if grumpy honey collection and reproductive ability in general, then such a bee colony may be optimized by beekeepers, one of the more common methods is to replace the queen bee, but some friends in the actual breeding found that by replacing the queen bee to solve the problem of grumpiness, it seems that the effect is not great, so what is the specific cause of it? Or is the bee's temper good or not, is it the queen bee who decides or the male bee? Today, the small editor of the bee tribe will reveal this secret to everyone.
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We all know that the bees in a bee colony, not every bee habit is the same, the bees in the bee colony, divided into three kinds of queen bees, worker bees, male bees, the division of labor of these three kinds of bees is different, in fact, the queen bee and male bees can not talk about temper problems at all.
For bees, our so-called temper is nothing more than the bee loves to sting people, otherwise with the size of the bee, no matter whether the bee bites or kicks the fierceness, we can't feel it, and what can make us unforgettable is the short almost invisible stinging needle at the tail of the bee.
Since the temper of the bee is determined by the sting needle, it is clear that the temper of a bee colony is not grumpy, mainly determined by the worker bee, because although an egg-laying queen has a stinging needle, but only for attacking other queen bees, and the queen bee lays eggs, it cannot fly at all, in terms of numbers, there is only one queen bee, and from the division of labor, the queen bee does not participate in the defense and attack of a bee colony, but is only responsible for laying eggs.
Although the male bee is different from the queen bee, when it comes to attack ability, the male bee is the worst in a bee colony, because the male bee does not even have the weapon to attack. We all know that male bees do not have sting needles, which are the main weapon of bee attack, simply put, male bees do not even have the conditions to attack.
The number of male bees in a bee colony is generally tens or hundreds, but the number of worker bees is generally tens of thousands, and the division of labor bees in the bee colony includes the guarding of the bee colony and attacking other enemies, which shows that we think that the bees are grumpy and can only refer to the worker bees.
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In our human society, when talking about the genetic inheritance of offspring, we often say a word, such as a child's temper like his father or mother, which to a certain extent, the temper of human offspring may be determined by the father, or it may be determined by the mother, or it is determined by the parents.
Although the bees in the swarm have three types of bees, in fact, the mothers are queen bees, and as we have said above, the temper of the bees in the swarm can only refer to the worker bees. Although bees have two reproductive methods of parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction, but the worker bee is actually not the product of asexual reproduction, the worker bee and the queen bee in the bee colony are all developed from fertilized eggs, so the temper of the worker bee may be like the queen bee, or it may be like the male bee.
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If we change the queen bee and the swarm is still grumpy, then we should consider other factors. Let's take a look at what may cause the bee's temper to remain grumpy after we change the queen bee and how to solve it.
First: genetic problems
As mentioned above, the habits of bees may be related to the queen bee, and may also be related to male bees. In the case of our replacement of the queen bee, if the cause of the bee's bad temper is the queen bee, it is obvious that as long as we change into a docile queen, in fact, the problem of the bee's short temper can be solved, but this solution may be temporary.
Since the habits of working bees may be determined by male bees and queen bees, in fact, it is difficult for us to change the habits of male bees, because the way bees mate is that the queen and all male bees in the range of bee activities are free to mate, if the male bees in the entire area have grumpy genes, then after we replace the queen, the time for the colony to be tame will not be very long. As long as the next queen bee mates, the grumpy characteristics of the bee colony will slowly show.
In fact, this phenomenon is very difficult to solve, for example, we have this kind of regional violent bees in Guizhou, but the honey production ability is better, because this is a regional habit, so it is very difficult to change, that is, if the habit of the bee is inherited by the queen bee, we are very good to change, but if it is determined by the male bee, we can change it may be very small, only after a long period of hybridization or continuous introduction of tame bee species.
Second: caused by human causes
In addition to bee habits, many friends due to the lack of understanding of bees, or the location of the hive difference, resulting in the original tame bees, giving us a grumpy feeling, especially in the bee, due to the wide distance between the bee colony and the bee colony when breeding, and the nest door is deliberately staggered, resulting in the bee farm is not as neat as the bee farm, when we check the bee colony, the beekeeper may stand in the same direction of the hive, but the impact on the bee colony is different.
For example, we have a hive nest door to the north, a hive nest door to the south, when we check the bee colony, if only standing in a position, there must be a position we stand on the back of the hive, there is a position just standing at the hive nest door, it is obvious that when standing at the nest door, the bees will attack us, so in addition to the bee habits, we also have to consider whether the operation steps are standardized in our actual operation process.
As far as the temper of the bees is concerned, in fact, even if the temper is grumpy, as long as we do a good job of prevention, generally speaking, there is not much of a problem, whether it is to be eliminated, we should also consider the reproductive ability and collection ability of the bees, after all, the purpose of our breeding bees is to obtain honey, if the bees are only grumpy, honey production ability and reproductive ability are good, such a bee colony can also be regarded as high-quality, we have a special bee in Guizhou, grumpy, but the breeding honey is very good, Therefore, it is also protected as a high-quality bee species.
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