The biggest natural enemy of the Chinese honey bee is the nest worm, a nest worm is not terrible, but a wax borer is different. Wax borers are adult nest worms, which beekeepers call "nest worm mothers". Wax borers generally come out at night to mate, sneak into the hive to lay eggs, and hide in the corner of the hive or on the lid of the hive during the day. After successful mating, a wax borer can lay 100-900 eggs per day and night, up to a maximum of 1800 eggs. Wax borers with such high yields, once they fly into the hive to lay eggs, the consequences are unimaginable!
<h1>How wax borers harm bee colonies</h1>
The wax borer moth does not directly harm the bee colony, but through a large number of eggs, the eggs hatch and develop into nest worms, and then burrow into the nest spleen, lurking at the bottom of the nest spleen to bite the nest spleen "digging a tunnel", resulting in the pupae can not continue to develop and die. Usually on the subsplenate of the bee spleen, the bee bites open the covered pupae, the pupae head is white, the antennae have not yet developed black, but the compound eye has developed color, black, purple red. The pupae pulls out the tail with filaments and black feces particles, because the nest worm digs the tunnel is linear, so on the nest spleen that is endangered by the nest worm, there will be a white-headed unfinded pupae, which beekeepers call "white-headed pupae".
Wax borer moths generally lay eggs in beehive crevices, corners, and lids, and the eggs hatch at high temperatures for 10 days to develop into nest larvae of less than 1 mm. At this time, the small larvae move quickly and crawl quickly, and they will do everything possible to crawl on the bee's spleen and burrow into the bottom of the bee's spleen to cause harm. If the bee spleen is exposed, the wax borer will also take the opportunity to fly to the bee spleen and lay the eggs directly on the subsplenate of the bee spleen, and after the small larvae of the wax borer develop, it will cause serious damage to the bee spleen, causing a large number of whitehead pupae.
Wax borer <h1>control technology</h1>
The nest insects are so numerous and the harm is so serious that beekeepers are really invincible without the use of drug treatment! Generally, beekeepers will take two measures to reduce the harm of nest insects, on the one hand, to keep the bee's excess spleen and bee spleen not exposed, on the other hand, to frequently clean the hive and disinfect the hive to reduce the breeding of nest insects. This treatment can indeed reduce the harm of nest insects, but it cannot eliminate nest insect harm, so we should use a higher level of wax borer control technology, because killing one wax borer is equivalent to treating the harm of hundreds of nest insects.
We can take advantage of the wax borer's nighttime activity mating behavior, make a homemade night trap wax borer tool, or use a mosquito trap to modify it. Because the bees have no perception of red light, so the trap uses red light at night to attract wax borers, while adding a small amount of bee spleen to strengthen the lure effect, once the wax borer flies into the trap, it will be sucked into the inside of the trap by the cyclone, and then weathered and starved to death. The trapper can also be equipped with its own solar charger, which can be charged during the day and used at night.
Technical summary: Minnan bee brother has been studying this technology a few years ago, the effect is still good, at that time also used the photosensitive element, the night automatically opened the trap, the dawn automatically closed the trap, but the trap used at that time, after a few months, the bulb had a serious light failure problem. In fact, now beekeepers in the prevention and control of nest insects, has been staying on the nest insects, such a control of nest insects technology is not as good as the direct control of wax borer moth effect, so we should jump out of this framework, to study a more direct and effective, to solve the problem of honeycomb insects new technologies.
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