Keeping bees is mainly for honey, but honey has a mixture of honey and mature honey. Honey is generally accepted by buyers and processed into fake honey, and mature honey is the real good honey. In fact, beekeepers want to produce mature honey, but honey to mature, not only to have enough time for bees to brew, but also to have good conditions to support. So let's talk about which factors affect honey collection and honey maturation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > meteorological conditions</h1>
Temperature is the primary condition that affects honey harvesting by bees. High temperature above 35 degrees, low temperature below 10 degrees, not only honey source plant flowing honey will be affected, even bees will be affected when they go out to collect, so such meteorological conditions, do not expect bees to collect how much honey. In fact, in continuous high or low temperature weather, beekeepers should let bees save their strength, and then strengthen the collection and labor of bees when the climatic conditions are better.
Windy, rainy, typhoon days, etc., will affect bees to collect honey. Some beekeepers may say, "No! When I farm bees, I encounter such weather, I still see bees going out to collect honey! "In fact, a few or a small number of bees go out, not necessarily out to collect honey, some just go out to explore the weather conditions outside, some just go out to explore the honey situation." In this kind of weather, the honey source plants basically do not shed much nectar, and even if the bees go out, they can't collect much nectar. If you encounter this kind of weather continuously, let alone brewing mature honey, it is possible to starve bees without honey.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > native honey-source plants</h1>
Honey is accumulated by bees bit by bit, and mature honey is repeatedly brewed by bees, discharging excess water in nectar, and finally fully mature, so the honey flow of local honey source plants is to determine the time of honey maturity. If the local honey source plants are few and the amount of honey flow is low, then the time for bees to brew honey will naturally become longer, and even bees do not need to brew honey at all, and will be eaten directly. If the local honey source plants are abundant and the amount of honey flow is large, the bees will also be more active in going out to collect honey. In addition to daily consumption, the rest of the harvested nectar needs to be quickly brewed into honey and stored, so the honey source plant is the main factor affecting honey collection and honey maturity of bees.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > bee internals</h1>
When you understand the whole process of honey collection and honey brewing by bees, you will find that the situation inside the bee colony will also affect the honey collection of honey by bees, as well as the speed of brewing honey. Honey is collected by field bees to return to the nest, and then passed on to the internal bees, and then temporarily stored and brewed by the field bees. After passing the nectar, the field bees continue to go out to collect nectar, and so on, until night, when the bees inside the bee colony will participate in the brewing of honey together, and the excess nectar will be brewed into honey as soon as possible.
In fact, the coordination of the internal structure of the bee colony is also a factor that determines the speed of honey brewing. If the number of bees is small and the nest is large, so that each bee needs to pay double the labor and time to brew honey, the natural honey ripening will be slower. When the lid inside the bee colony comes out, it will cause a lot of honey consumption, so the field bees have to pay more labor, go out to collect nectar back, and eventually not only affect the maturity of honey, but also affect the honey collection.
These are the reasons for the slow maturity of honey, but also the factors that affect the honey collection of bees, so in addition to raising strong bees, beekeepers can make the bee colony more coordinated, that is, to understand the flowering period of local honey source plants and timely honey harvesting. As for meteorological problems, beekeepers can only resign themselves to fate, because as the saying goes, beekeeping is an industry that depends on the sky to eat, and no beekeeper can change this fact.