Winter for bees is the overwintering period, bees in this time period need several conditions, the queen bee needs to be a state of suspension, because, the queen does not stop production, the hive will form a breeding area, that is, there are larvae on the spleen and the lid of the spleen need to be fed by the worker bees, the worker bees can only increase the nest temperature by consuming the stored feed, maintain the breeding temperature of about 35 degrees in the breeding area, that is to say, in the case of the external temperature drop, there are still larvae in the swarm that need to be fed, then the bee colony is heated management, The phenomenon of bee colonies closing and shedding can be avoided. If the beekeeper will be the queen bee in the colony for the management of the king prisoner, limit the queen bee spawning, the bee colony is in a broken state, the proportion of bees to consume feed will decline, however, with the decline in the outside temperature, the bees in the hive will appear to clumping, the lower the temperature in the hive, the thicker the spherical shape of the bee clumping, the structure of the bee colony is tight and loose inside, and the bees begin to enter the semi-dormant state of the wintering period.
The bee colony needs to be kept warm, but the bee colony does not need to be over-insulated, in fact, the excessive insulation here refers to the phenomenon of the bee colony scattering, and the winter bee colony should have the ability to self-regulate the nest temperature. The number of worker bees in the bee colony needs to reach more than 1.2 kg, which is why beekeepers give the bee colony autumn breeding before the arrival of winter, increase the overwintering swarm potential of the bee swarm, let the bee swarm enter the wintering period with the best swarm posture, the proportion of bee colony consumption feed is reduced to the minimum, at the same time, the hive volume on the hive spleen in the hive is high, which is conducive to the hive self-regulation of the nest temperature, which is also the ability of the bee colony to self-regulate the nest temperature during the wintering period, provided that there is a sufficient wintering feed in the bee colony.
Beekeepers to the bee swarm for thermal insulation management, so that the bee colony has been scattered phenomenon, often accompanied by the phenomenon of bees flying in the air, due to the high temperature in the hive, the outside temperature is low, the bees fly farther, the bee wing muscles will appear frozen under the conditions of 11 degrees below the outside world, so the beekeeper will find that the bees fall on the top of the hive after flying, and on the dwarf bushes around the hive, and even the bees appear on the corolla branches of the dwarf place "beard bee" phenomenon, These are the effects of the high temperature inside the hive, causing the bees to fly empty.