How do novice beekeepers get queen bees? How do wild bees catch queen bees?

In general, it is obtained by dividing the queen bee table. This is a natural way of dividing bees and is also able to expand the population.

Beekeepers need to build a bee table in the hive to get the queen bee, and there can only be one bee table in each hive.

Honey needs to be added to attract queen bees to feed, and it is captured and propagated to form new colonies.

Wild bees are the main bee species of many beekeepers**, and the queen bee is the most indispensable in the whole bee colony, a little carelessness in the collection of wild bee colonies may cause the queen bee to be injured or killed, which is extremely unfavorable to the future management of the bee colony, let's take a look at how the wild bees catch the queen bee!

1. Capture bee colonies

There are generally two situations when wild bee colonies are collected, one is that they can directly reach the bee colony, in this case, the bee colony is very simple, the whole bee colony can be loaded away with a bee collection tool, and the other is the bee colony in the stone cave and tree hole, and it is more troublesome to collect this kind of bee colony, but basically the bee colony is driven out of the nest with smoke by using smoke, and then the bee collection tool is put at the door of the nest to collect the bees from the nest.

2. Find the queen bee

The characteristics of the queen bee are very different from other bees, the body length is about one-third longer than the average bee, especially the abdomen is relatively long, the wings can only cover almost half of the abdomen, in fact, there is no need to find the queen bee when collecting the wild bee colony, you just need to know whether there is a queen bee in the bee colony, there is a concave vent at the bottom of the bee cluster when there is a queen bee, and there is no vent on the contrary.

3. Control the queen bee

Collecting wild bees that clump up does not need to catch the queen bee, just "pack" the whole bee group home, and collecting wild bee colonies in tree holes or stone caves needs to pay attention to the queen bee's situation, when the queen bee crawls out of the hole, the queen bee should be controlled with a prison cage, it is best not to catch the queen bee directly with your hands, the reason is that the strength is not easy to control, the queen bee may break free if the force is small, and the queen bee will often pinch to death if the force is large.

Fourth, the loss of the king to deal with

It is common to lose the queen when collecting wild bees, but the loss of the queen of the bee colony does not mean that it cannot be raised, the best way is to intervene in a new queen bee for the bee colony in time, and you can also intervene in a mature queen when there is no queen bee, if the queen bee and the queen are not the bee colony is not there is no way to remedy it? In fact, no, at this time, there is a last way, that is, to supplement some egg worm spleen to the kingless group for the bee colony to "urgently build a king".

Summary: There is no need to catch the queen bee when wild bees clump on the tree, but when collecting the bee colony in the tree hole or stone cave, pay attention to whether the queen bee is out of the nest, and use the queen cage to control it after the queen bee comes out of the nest, and do not catch the queen bee with bare hands and cause the queen to be injured or killed.

You can start with protective equipment, then build a beehive in this place by hand, and wait a day to catch the queen bee.

It can be carried out by inducement, pay attention to safety issues, and do a good job of safety protection measures, so that you can better catch it.

When catching wild bees, be sure to find the bee's nest and then catch the queen bee, who is generally larger than the average bee.

When breeding dense queen bees, a rectangular frame is built with wooden strips, and a beehive is built every two centimeters on the wooden strips on the frame. Then you can put healthy little bees in it and give them royal jelly every day. After two weeks, the queen bees will grow and mature, and then you can put them in the hive.

How to breed a queen bee.

1. Select a young bee.

There can only be one queen bee in a beehive, so when cultivating dense queen bees, it is not advisable to obtain them directly from the beehive, and it is best to choose young bees for breeding. The selected young bees should have the characteristics of strong body shape, healthy growth and large size to improve the success rate of breeding.

2. Provide food.

The difference between a queen bee and a worker bee is mainly in food. Starting from the larvae, the queen bee feeds royal jelly, which makes it larger, more clumpy, and easier to reproduce. Therefore, when raising queen bees, you need to make a bee table with beeswax on a wooden stick, put the young bees in it, and provide them with royal jelly every day.

3. Put it in the beehive.

The reproduction cycle of bees is short, the larval stage of bees only needs one week, the pupal stage takes six days, and it takes five days to grow and mature, so it only takes half a month for a baby bee to grow and mature. At this time, the mature queen bee can be placed in the hive and a swarm of worker bees can be attracted with sugar water.

4. Precautions.

Bees can distinguish the same and different according to their smell, so before putting the queen bee and the worker bee into the hive, you can put the worker bee and the queen bee together in a net pocket, spray it with liquor and jujube spray or sugar water, let the bees adapt to the environment, and then put it into the hive to reproduce.