For bees overwintering diarrhea, this is a common phenomenon in bee breeding, in general, it is mainly caused by honey quality problems, because the winter bees are clumps overwintering, generally we find that bee diarrhea is not easy to solve, because unboxing will cause bees to freeze, so for the problem of bees' winter diarrhea, it is generally the use of preventive methods, less than last resort, generally will not use the way of treatment. So how do we solve this problem? You can start from the following aspects.
1. Judgment of bee diarrhea in winter
2. Prevention of bee diarrhea in winter
3. Treatment of bee diarrhea in winter
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For bees, although bees do not hibernate in winter, bees do not excrete in winter, but concentrate feces in the hind intestine, and will concentrate excretion until the weather warms up in the next year. This is under normal circumstances, if we feed the bees with problems with feed, such as high water content, feed mildew, too much solid feed, etc., causing the bees to accumulate too much feces in the hind intestines, and there is no opportunity to fly out to excrete, which will lead to diarrhea in the winter.
Bees in the case of diarrhea in the winter, because they can not fly out to excrete, bees can only discharge feces at the nest door, we can see that there are many bee feces at the nest door, under normal circumstances, bees will not be excreted in the hive, generally in the temperature suitable for the test flight or excreted on the nearby attachments, such as clothes dried near the bee farm, parked car glass, leaves and the like.
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For the prevention of bee diarrhea, we are generally divided into pre-winter prevention and post-winter prevention, pre-winter prevention is mainly the selection of feed, and post-winter prevention is mainly to control the humidity in the hive.
(1) Pre-winter prevention: For pre-winter prevention, it generally includes the choice of honey, the choice of syrup, the removal of manna honey, the feeding of pollen, and humidity control.
Honey choice: For honey, the honey fed when the bees overwinter is generally mature honey, if the water content in the honey is too high, this belongs to the immature honey, the bees will cause diarrhea after eating, so when we reserve bee overwintering bee food in the autumn, we should pay attention to the reserve of mature honey that has been covered.
The choice of feeding syrup: When the bees overwinter, we may take too much honey, resulting in insufficient amount of honey, generally we have to use thick syrup to feed before the bees overwinter, the proportion of feeding is two parts of white sugar and one part of water, boiled and cooled to feed the bees, some friends use syrup and do not get it, resulting in poor syrup nutrition, containing too much water, resulting in bees appearing diarrhea when wintering.
Removal of manna honey: Before the bees overwinter, due to a period of honey deficiency at the end of autumn, bees may collect some manna honey in the case of not being able to find the source of honey, resulting in a larger component of manna honey in honey, and the bees eat digestion problems, so before the bees overwinter, we must pay attention to checking the content of manna honey in the bee colony, if the honey contains manna honey, such honey cannot be wintered for bees.
Pollen feeding: many friends only know that pollen is rich in protein, feeding bees can increase the physique of bees, but do not know that pollen contains more minerals, feeding bees must be able to excrete in time, otherwise it will accumulate a large amount of feces in the bee's hind intestine, in the case of bees can not fly out to excrete, resulting in bee diarrhea, which should be noted. So when the bees are overwintering, if we want to feed a lot of pollen, try to feed when the bees can still fly out and excrete, and when the bees are overwintering, it is better not to feed the pollen, unless our local temperature is high, and the bees have the opportunity to fly out in the winter.
Humidity control: In the winter, because the bees want to overwinter in the swarm, the temperature in the swarm is not low, and the honey in the swarm and the metabolism of the bees will produce moisture, resulting in excessive humidity in the swarm in the winter, a large amount of water vapor is absorbed by the honey in the swarm, resulting in honey being diluted, and the bees have diarrhea after eating. Therefore, in the winter, we should pay attention to keeping the ventilation and drying in the bee colony, and raise the back of the hive a little higher so that the water in the hive can flow out along the nest door.
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There are actually a lot of drugs about bee diarrhea on the Internet, and we just need to pay attention to the query. If the bees have diarrhea in winter, it is generally caused by the high humidity in the hive, as long as we keep the ventilation inside the hive and let the water flow out of the nest door, basically solve the problem. But if it is due to the quality of honey, we still need to replace, the best way to replace is to replace the mature honey spleen, if there is no honey spleen, you can move the bee colony to the home, on the frame beam with plastic bags refined sugar feeding. If diarrhea is severe, spleen spraying can be treated indoors with digestive drugs, and the common method used by bee tribes is to feed hawthorn water or add vinegar to the syrup to spray the spleen, and the effect is also good.