The habit of the middle bee is to love the bee. Some of the bee species have five boxes of bees that will divide the bees, but this will not affect the recovery of the group and will affect the production of honey. As a branch of the bee can not only increase the potential of the colony, but also do not miss the honey production? I would like to share some of my views on the attempts made in recent years, and I hope that the beekeepers who keep bees in the past year will point out common technological progress.
(1) Comparison between the natural bee division and the artificial bee division
The group of bees left by the natural division of the bees recovers rapidly, and the number of group bees that are separated also multiplies rapidly, as the natural bees are completely in the case of excess feeding bees, and natural bees will occur. This is mainly due to the high quality and long life of the bees in the bee colony, whether it is the bee colony after the separation of the bee and the separation of the bee colony will be rapidly restored.
As an artificial beekeeper is in the bee colony of feeding bees has not yet reached the excess time, artificial to carry out artificial bee division, in such a case, it will cause the health index of the bees is not enough, the life of the worker bees is short in the case of bee division, whether it is the bee colony that is separated out and the bee colony that remains in the group recovery, it is far less than the recovery speed of the natural bee colony in the group.
(2) Combine the actual division of bees in our land
Our land is in the middle of China's plains, due to the warm winter climate in recent years, after the general year of spring and half a month, there will be sporadic powder sources for the collection of bees, because the cold tolerance of the bees is stronger than the western bees, the temperature will be about 10 degrees out of the nest to collect these pollen.
In the middle of March, rapeseed will bloom a lot of flour, late March to early April rape will be a large flow of honey, into May acacia paulownia will continue to flow honey, although the bee can not go to collect acacia flower honey, but at this time other fruit trees outside is also in full bloom, the bee is also completely able to collect commercial honey. During the two-month period of large honey source, the middle bee will fully recover to a strong group, and in the case of breeding and honey, the phenomenon of natural bee division will occur in the middle bee.
At this time, the bee colony has completely reached the best group from the quality, and it is also after the high yield of honey in the spring has been obtained, and at this time, it is a good time for the bees to divide the bees. Whether it is the natural bee and the artificial bee colony after the bee, there will be sporadic honey powder source subsidies below, which is the most suitable for the conditions for rapid reproduction after the bee separation, whether it is the artificial bee or the natural bee colony will get rapid reproduction and rejuvenation.
By mid-August, through the nearly three-month breeding period, the bee colony and the remaining bee colony will breed into a strong group, and the second natural bee colony will be ushered in. At this time, it is completely possible to carry out natural bee division and artificial bee division. As a medium bee colony that divides bees in mid-August, it can become a strong overwintering colony after the autumn breeding to the beginning of winter.
Therefore, like the middle bees in the middle of our country in the method of bee division, or seize these two times to divide bees, whether it is artificial bee division or natural bee division is the best time to divide bees. However, as other times, it is not impossible to divide the bees, according to the actual situation of the bee colony, if the bee colony has obvious signs of bee division, whether it is artificial bee division or natural bee division is also the best time. Because everything in the world is not a law of death, but flexible application is the right way.