Introduction: Beekeeper friends know that bees after a winter, often weak physique, coupled with the next spring often encounter changeable climate, continuous rain and other harsh conditions, easy to cause bees a variety of diseases. Whether it is a medium bee or a bee, if it is sick, most of them appear more in early spring, so for early spring, prevention is more important.
For early spring, experienced friends will not only feed the bees some nutrient-rich pollen, but also feed the bees some Chinese herbs, and the bees grow very well. Common friends who can raise bees have heard a saying, that is, in the spring when the bee's feed to add citric acid, then in the spring to the spring to add citric acid in the bee's feed is not beneficial?
First, the role of spring reproduction to supplement nutrition
The role of spring supplementation is easier to understand, no matter what kind of bee disease, as long as the bee resistance is strong, the pathogen wants to invade the bees will be more difficult, so it is very necessary to supplement the bees with nutrition appropriately in the spring.
In fact, citric acid has been mentioned in the prevention and control of many diseases of bees, such as bee microsporidosis, bee amoeba disease, these two kinds of bee diseases are common protozoa diseases of bees, and these two bee diseases have a characteristic, that is, the resistance to harsh environments is strong, but the resistance under acidic conditions is very weak, it is easy to be killed.
The pathogens in bee microsporidiosis and bee amoethosis are mainly infecting the digestive tract of bees, and our way of changing the acidic environment of the digestive tract of bees can not only directly prevent the breeding of pathogens, but also kill pathogens in the digestive tract of bees. Bee protozoa are extremely susceptible to large multiplications in early spring conditions. From this point of view, for the protozoal disease of bees, it makes sense to add citric acid to the syrup of bees in the spring.
The main symptoms of bee spiroplasmosis are bloating, wings hanging, loss of flight ability, enlarged hind intestine and accumulation of large amounts of yellow feces, usually associated with bee amoemoesis and bee microsporidosis, and bee spiroplastosis pathogens are also unsuitable for survival in acidic conditions, and bee microsporidosis
Bee amoesis and bee spiroplasmosis have the symptoms of reptile bees, so in the bee spiroplasma disease is generally called reptile disease, and citric acid just happens to have a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on these diseases, from here, we beekeepers feed bees in the early spring when feeding bees in the syrup is still reasonable.
In fact, the three bee diseases we mentioned above have the phenomenon of bee crawling, in the absence of a clear diagnosis, many friends are unable to distinguish between bee crawling disease, which is also a reason why many friends often ask how to treat bee crawling disease in the background, but the bee tribe can not reply.
Although citric acid has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on some of our common reptile bee disease, but not all reptile bee disease can be solved, such as our common bee mites, nest worms and other diseases will also appear crawling bee phenomenon, obviously these diseases we use citric acid for treatment is not right, but to say that for early spring, it is often the above mentioned three diseases caused by the reptile disease Probability is relatively large, from a high probability, such prevention is very good.
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.
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