Beekeeper friends all know that because the bees have gone through a winter, the physique is relatively weak, and in the spring, they often encounter harsh conditions such as changeable climate and continuous rain, which is easy to cause various diseases of bees. If you get sick, most of them appear more in the spring, so for the spring, prevention is more important.
In the process of beekeeping, we often hear that bees suffer from symptoms such as crawling bees or diarrhea, which are generally caused by germs or caused by the environment, and the following are common:
Microsporidiosis of bees
Bees with microsporidium disease generally show that the bee abdomen becomes larger, darker in color, slower in movement, and dies at the door of the hive.
Chronic paralysis in bees
Bees infected with the chronic paralytic virus of bees tend to have larger abdomen, slower movements and trembling, and finally their feet are extended, their wings are spread out, and they are paralyzed and die.
Bee snail disease
The diseased worker bee of the bee snail protoplasma appears to have spread its wings, want to fly but cannot fly, and finally die in groups of three or five in low-lying areas of the bee farm. On the whole, as long as the bee belly disease is found, there will be changes in the bee's midgut or hindgut, causing diarrhea, and the most obvious from the performance of bees is the phenomenon of crawling bees.
Bee amoebic disease
Bee amoebic disease disease bee belly enlarged, sometimes appear diarrhea symptoms, weak constitution, inability to fly, soon died.
For germs, most of the bacteria have the characteristics of strong resistance to the environment, such as the bad environment in the stinky ditch, but the bacteria can survive, so the bacteria often have a long incubation period, and it is difficult to kill, generally even if it is cured in the case of suitable conditions, it will recur, so for us to start the spring when we must do a good job of disinfection of the site, beehive and beehive, as far as possible to control the onset of bees.
Strong honey foot prevention
For beekeeping, it is generally advocated to raise strong groups, which makes some sense, and it is a fact that strong swarms develop rapidly, and it is also a fact that strong swarms have strong resistance to germs. Another condition for ensuring a strong herd is sufficient feed, so in the long-term rainy season, not only should the bee colony be rewarded with feeding, but also should be fed high-quality feed, rather than simply replaced with syrup. The reason is simple, high-quality feed is highly nutritious and can reduce the accumulation of feces in bees.
Promote bee excretion in a timely manner
We all know that healthy bees will not be excreted in the hive, so in the long-term bad weather, if you encounter good weather, you can open the hive, due to the high external temperature, you can increase the temperature inside the hive, reduce the bee's regulatory burden on the temperature in the nest, and then promote bee excretion, to avoid the occurrence of bee crawling bee disease.
Many beekeepers add citric acid to the syrup when feeding bees in the early spring
Several of the above diseases have the phenomenon of crawling bees, and these bacteria are also not suitable for survival under acidic conditions.
Citric acid is an important organic acid, also known as citric acid. It is an intermediate substance in the citric acid cycle in the organism and is directly involved in the energy metabolism process of the body.
In fact, in the prevention and control of many diseases of bees, citric acid has been mentioned, bee microsporosis, bee chronic paralysis, bee amoeba disease and bee spiroplastic disease, all have the symptoms of crawling bees, and citric acid just happens to have a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on these diseases.
Citric acid for the treatment of reptile bee disease targeted dosage, such as the treatment of bee spiroplasma alone often uses a special meter, generally using 30 to 50 grams plus 300 grams of sugar, boiling water 700 ml feeding. As a precaution, generally a kilogram of syrup added 1 gram of citric acid, if there is no citric acid, you can also replace it with rice vinegar, the amount is a kilogram of syrup added to the rice vinegar 50 ml. There are two general uses, one is added to the wintering feed and the other is added during early spring feeding, both to prevent crawling bees.
From this point of view, it makes sense for us beekeepers to add citric acid to the syrup when feeding bees in the early spring.
Although citric acid has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on some of our common reptile diseases, not all reptile bee diseases can be solved. For example, our common bee mites, nest worms and other diseases will also appear crawling bee phenomenon, obviously these diseases we use citric acid for preventive treatment is not appropriate, we should find the cause, the right medicine.
The difference between Bee Spirit and Citric Acid:
Citric acid is an important organic acid that has a preventive effect on microsporidiosis, bee chronic paralysis, bee amoebasis and spiroplasmosis.
Bee Bee Spirit has a significant effect on regulating the intestinal bacteria of bees. After entering the intestines of bees, this product exhibits unique growth characteristics, producing organic acids and acetic acids, thereby resisting the growth of acid-sensitive pathogenic bacteria. If the distribution of bee gut microbes is unbalanced, it will directly or indirectly increase the probability of bees becoming ill.
In addition, bee colonies are mostly affected by diseases such as large bee mites, viruses, larval putrid disease, fungal and microsporidiosis, indicating that the health of bees may be regulated by a relatively balanced proportion of intestinal flora colonizing the intestine.
BeeLine protects bee larvae from infection by regulating the balance of bee intestinal bacteria. The antibacterial compounds produced after entering the bee intestine directly inhibit the pathogenic bacteria, and can also induce the activation of the bee's immune system and improve the disease resistance of the bee.
Bee Spirit is an active feed additive that has a beneficial effect on bees and improves the microbial balance of bees' guts, and is the "guardian" of your bee's health.