In daily beekeeping, checking the bee colony is the main way for beekeepers to understand the internal situation of the bee colony, and many beekeepers like to check the bee colony to see if the queen is present. In fact, experienced beekeepers usually do not deliberately go to look for the queen, because they know what methods can be used to prove the existence of the queen bee. However, in some special cases, when you can't find the queen bee and don't know if the queen bee exists, it is necessary to use these 1 tricks to let the bees take the initiative to tell you.
1. Poor attendance of no royal bee colony
Once the bee colony loses the queen bee, the enthusiasm of the bees to go out to collect will become very weak, even if there is a large flow of honey from the honey source plants in the outside world, the bees will not be on duty. Therefore, beekeepers can observe the attendance of bees outside the box to detect whether there is an abnormality in the bees. If other bee colonies are well attended, and some of them have less attendance, or even no attendance, there may be internal problems, and beekeepers should open the box for inspection at the first time.
2. The royal bee swarm guards the bee laziness
The colony that loses the queen bee, the "security guard" at the nest door, will become lazy and have no "passion", and even the bees without a fan at the nest door can sometimes be seen wandering around the nest door on the other side and showing panic. At this time, the beekeeper should open the box to check the internal situation of the bee colony, once the queen cannot be found, and has built a rapid king platform, it means that the bee colony has lost the queen bee.
3. Internal disturbances in the no-ream colony
Mention the bee spleen, found that the bees are flustered everywhere, some bees are particularly fierce, take off to sting people, the whole group of bees show panic and disorder, then it is possible to lose the queen bee. At this time, the beekeeper should look for the queen bee, see if there is a single erect egg in the sub-spleen room, and after determining that there is no queen, it is necessary to deal with the bee colony in time.
Normal bee colonies, there are guard bees at the gate of the nest to stick to their posts, bees have in and out, especially busy, when the temperature is high, there are many fans of the bees. In addition to these manifestations, active polling is also a manifestation of the existence of the queen bee. The more powder is fed, the better the queen bee lays eggs, and the outside world is rich in powder. The queen's swarm is calm inside, the bees do not attack people at will, do not panic or disorderly, and even the movement of flapping wings is consistent and very united.
Usually, when there are eggworms on the spleen, after the colony loses its king for 12 hours, the bees will begin to rush to build the royal platform, so the beekeeper can not find the queen bee, and found that the emergency king platform, there is a good reason to think that the bee colony has no queen. But without the swarm of eggworms, the bees cannot rush to build the royal platform, and the beekeeper cannot prove that the bee colony has no queen by urgently creating the royal platform.
For example, during the new queen bee's tailing, the larvae have been completely covered, and there will be no eggworms. For example, during the summer or overwintering, the queen bee stops production, the larvae have been completely covered, and there will be no egg worms. In this case, the beekeeper should transfer an eggworm spleen to the bee colony. One can stabilize the eggless bee colony and prevent the bee colony from escaping. Two or two can verify whether the bee colony has lost the queen, as long as the next day to check the bee colony, there is a rapid king platform, it proves that the bee colony has lost the queen.
Some beekeepers have no experience in finding the queen, and once they find that there are no eggworms, they always feel that the colony has lost the queen. In fact, in this case, it is not necessarily the loss of the queen bee, it may be that the queen bee is lying in the bee pile and cannot be found for a while. At this time, the best way is to transfer an eggworm spleen, you can completely verify the existence of the queen bee, as long as there is no queen bee inside the bee colony, the bee will carefully select the egg worm and transform it into a royal platform. This is actually the bee telling the beekeeper that the swarm has lost its queen.