If a group of bees has a disease, many times we can see it by looking at the bees outside the hive. In the view of listening to the bee, as long as the bee has one of these ten characteristics outside the hive, it means that the bee colony has already suffered from diseases and needs timely treatment. The following listen to the words of the bees to introduce to you the ten boxes of bee-seeing skills for diagnosing bee colony diseases, very practical and accurate, welcome to collect.
First, a large number of bees have dark body color.
Bees with age, the color will gradually deepen, if the hive outside to see a lot of body color darker, and rarely see the body color of the lighter bees, indicating that this bee does not have enough new bee supplement, at this time we have to check whether the queen bee lays eggs normally, bee spleen structure is reasonable.
Second, the bee oil shines brightly, and there is a phenomenon of bee fighting.
Body color shiny, basically caused by bee theft, if there are bee fights, it can basically be determined that the bee colony has stolen bees at this time, and it is necessary to move away in time to avoid the aggravation of bee theft.
Third, bees have large bellies, yellow stools, and bees crawl.
If the nest door appears bee belly, yellow stool situation, indicating that the bee excretion is not smooth, mainly should be caused by bad weather, at this time we want to reduce the feeding of pollen, at the same time at noon the temperature is high, good weather to promote bee out of the nest excretion, so as not to further aggravate the situation and lead to large-scale reptile bee disease.
Fourth, bees have parasites in their bodies.
If there are parasites in the body of some worker bees entering and leaving the nest door, many of them are concentrated on the back of the bees; bees with this symptom may have bee flies; because the larvae of the bee flies are parasitic in the body of strong worker bees; as the parasites grow up, the strong working bees will gradually lose their ability to fly, and finally crawl on the ground for a while and then suddenly stop their activities. When encountering bee fly, we must burn the diseased bees with fire in time, and it is best to destroy them all, so as not to lead to large-scale infection.
Fifth, bees have parasites outside the body.
Bees do not have the ability to fly outside the hive, but crawl on the ground, after careful observation found that there are many parasites outside the body, as few as one more; then this group of bees suffer from more serious bee mites, need to timely Guan Wang, kill mites, change spleen.
Sixth, bees drag out a large number of bee pupae.
If there is a large number of bee pupae outside the hive being dragged out, we need to check the dragged pupae, and if the pupae are normal, it means that the bee colony is short of food. If the bee pupae is mutilated, or even has parasites on it, then the middle bee is mostly suffering from nest worms, which means that the bee is suffering from bee mites.
Seventh, the young bees have incomplete wings and arms, and crawl on the ground.
If there is a crawling young bee outside the hive, and the wings are incomplete, or the legs are incomplete; if it is a middle bee, it means that there are nest worms lurking in the nest spleen; if it is a bee, it means that there are bee mites lurking in the nest spleen.
There are gray, dry, and whitish bee carcasses.
If a bee carcass is found outside the hive to appear gray, dry and whitish, it indicates that the bee colony suffers from chalk disease.
Bees tremble and die in large areas.
If there is a large area of bees outside the hive shaking and dying, it means that the bee colony is suffering from paralysis. The main cause of paralysis is caused by long-term bad weather, at this time we must not open the box for treatment, but wait for the weather to improve and let the bees slowly recover, so as to save more sick bees.
10. There are no bees coming in and out of the hive.
If there are no bees coming in and out of the hive, and it happens in a non-special situation that is not a cold season, it means that the bee colony has appeared in a special situation, and it is very likely that all of them will starve to death.
These are the top ten bee-watching tips that we can diagnose colony diseases without opening a hive. If you have more additions, please feel free to leave a message to share.