In order to avoid the exhaustion of the overwintering bee colony, autumn breeding is what must be done. I have already talked about the time of autumn and the method of autumn reproduction, but some people will think that the hive and honey powder do not need to be fed. Here I must tell you that after the autumn breeding time is decided, regardless of whether the hive still has honey powder, it must be rewarded feeding, and the time of autumn breeding is not determined by the lack of honey powder in the bee colony.
In fact, in July and August, many places still have honey powder source flowers, autumn breeding bee colonies are not really short of honey and powder, in the place where the honey powder source is good, even the hive will store a lot of honey powder. When the autumn time comes, some beekeepers see that there is honey powder stored in the hive, and they feel that there is no need to feed, as long as the queen bee is laying eggs. The hive has honey powder, and the queen does lay eggs normally, but if it is not fed, the amount of eggs will be much less, and it will not be able to reproduce successfully.
Bees reproduce according to climatic conditions, and the instinct of bees after autumn is not willing to lay more eggs. Because the bee colony is strong, the honey consumed is more, and without help, the strong bee colony is difficult to survive the long winter. Therefore, even if the hive stores honey powder after autumn and the climate is suitable, the queen bee will not lay a large number of eggs. Artificially farmed bee colonies need to breed more wintering bees to ensure the success of the colony in the coming year. Strong bee colonies can cope with as long as they store enough wintering honey, and beekeepers only need to feed and store wintering honey before wintering. Therefore, the breeding of bee colonies in the autumn must do everything possible to stimulate the queen bee to spawn more eggs, feeding syrup is an indispensable method.
When the colony is excited during the collection period, the queen bee will increase the amount of eggs laid, the working bees will also be excited when feeding syrup, and the queen bee will also increase the amount of eggs laid. Therefore, if you want the queen bee to lay more eggs, you need to feed the syrup a small number of times to make the bee colony excited and keep the queen bee high egg production. In this way, feeding for the purpose of stimulating the queen bee to lay eggs is called reward feeding, and reward feeding is needed when it is necessary to breed in the spring and autumn when you want to speed up the breeding of bees.
Reward feeding is for the purpose of stimulating the queen bee to lay eggs, so insist on feeding throughout the bee breeding period, and feed the syrup once a day or two. Almost every day to feed syrup, the amount of syrup must not be much, according to the syrup consumption of the bee colony, the bee colony can consume as much syrup as possible per day to feed as much syrup, can not store too much syrup, as long as it plays a stimulating role. In the usual reward feeding as long as the honey stored in the corner of the hive can be, in the autumn syrup should be appropriately increased a little, the stored cover honey spleen should be increased with the increase of the spleen, so that both to stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs, but also to store enough winter honey, autumn reproduction is really successful.
Don't try to be simple, thicken the syrup, and store a lot of honey in the bee colony several times. Although this can store enough wintering honey, it does not stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs, and it is not really autumn. Moreover, the honeycomb storing a large amount of honey will occupy the nest room, affect the amount of eggs laid by the queen bee, and be seriously unfavorable to autumn reproduction.
The amount of honey in autumn should increase with the increase of the spleen, and the spleen should be sufficient, and the wintering honey is also stored enough.
The time of autumn breeding is generally 45 to 60 days, and in places where winter is long, the autumn time will be longer. The time of the end of autumn must be strictly in accordance with the winter time, generally in early October, and the cold north will end around the beginning of September. In the autumn season of about two months, the syrup should be fed once or two days, and feeding the syrup correctly is a technical task. Long-term syrup feeding can not store too much honey, and can not make the bee colony honey insufficient. According to the strength of the bee colony and the length of the wintering period, enough wintering honey should be stored to ensure that the wintering bee colony will not starve. This requires beekeepers to adjust the amount of syrup fed at any time according to the development of the bee colony and the amount of sub-spleen, and can judge whether the amount of capping honey is enough when stopping autumn breeding.
The stronger the colony, the more honey it consumes, and the longer the winter, the more honey it consumes. Therefore, the strong bee colony, the colony with a large spleen, should be a little more when feeding the syrup. In the central region, the capped honey spleen should increase with the increase of the sub-spleen, and there are as many capped honey spleens as the sub-spleen. In the cold areas of the north, the amount of honey spleen is more than the amount of spleen. During the whole period of autumn breeding, we must pay attention to the spleen volume and honey spleen of the bee colony, as long as the spleen and the amount of honey spleen can be increased simultaneously, it is almost the same, and the north with a long wintering period can be increased in moderation.
During the autumn season, we must pay close attention to the amount of syrup fed, and we must stimulate the queen bee to lay more eggs, and we can store enough wintering honey spleen. Can't be reluctant to feed, wait until the wintering period honey is insufficient bee colonies to starve. During the wintering period, the bee colony is not enough honey and then replenishing the honey is very troublesome, and if it is not rescued in time, the bee colony will starve to death. Store wintering honey a little more, never less.
Therefore, if you want to succeed in autumn, you must reward the bee colony, and you can't think that you can not feed it with honey powder. To correctly grasp the amount of syrup to feed, the honey spleen should increase with the increase of the spleen, and each colony must flexibly grasp the correct feeding amount.