What are the 10 ways to merge two boxes of bees?

Direct merging: direct merging is the fastest way to merge bee colonies, the specific operation is to spray some honey water on both groups of bees before merging, and then use the king cage to protect the queen bees that are merged into the group, and finally quickly move the merged group with the nest and bees to the merged group, and then release the queen bee after the two groups of bees are stabilized.

Spray some bee water on two groups of bees to allow the bees to mix quickly.

Bees can be divided when they reach more than six spleens.

Precautions bee boxing is mostly carried out in early spring, the weather at that time is not stable, you should choose the weather when the temperature is higher to enter the box, in the box, the distance between the two beehives can not be too far, and to introduce a new queen bee for the bees in time, if the two beehives are close, there will be a fight between the two queens, which is particularly unfavorable to the smooth distribution of the box.

In fact, the sub-box of bees can be divided into two ways: the traditional breeding of bees and the modern live frame breeding of bees.

Then the artificial bee division of the live frame breeding bee is different from the artificial bee division method of the traditional breeding bee, because the activity of the nest spleen in the two breeding methods is not the same, the live frame breeding can move the nest spleen at will, but the bee colony raised by the soil method is unable to move the nest spleen, so the way used when dividing the bees is not the same.

Extended Materials. Binning method.

1. Single-group equal box distribution method.

The single colony is generally divided into boxes after the large honey period, the bee colony has developed to a certain extent, the honey powder in the bee colony is sufficient, and there are many bee colonies, so you can move the original bee colony away from the position of half of the beehive, put a new beehive in the position of the original beehive, let the new beehive and the original beehive side by side, and then distribute the honeycomb, sub-spleen, and bees in the original bee colony evenly into two beehives, and both beehives only open the nest door on the side to avoid the bees from getting lost in the hive.

In this way, we are divided into a king group and a kingless group, and then adjust the position of the two beehives, so that the collection bees fly into the two beehives equally, and lure the king or queen bee into the kingless group the next day, so that our bee hives are completed.

2. The single group is not evenly divided into boxes.

This kind of box division method is generally carried out during the large honey flow period, mainly to solve the bee sharing emotions of the bee colony that has produced bee fever, the method is to put Lao Wang together with two frames of covered spleen with honey powder spleen into the new box to raise, in the original bee colony to keep a correct Wang Tai, the rest of the destruction.

Since the bee colony of Lao Wang will produce the phenomenon of bee return, it is necessary to give an extra spleen bee to Lao Wang when dividing Lao Wang, so as to avoid Lao Wang's bee colony being difficult to recover because the number of bees is too small. That's why it's called the unequal binning method.

When dividing the bees, you need to place the new hive and the old hive more than 20 meters apart, and when moving the queen bee, you need to move all the larvae with larvae near the queen bee to the new hive. If the two hives are placed too close together, some of the honey will fly back into the original hive.

Merging a bee colony is a management measure that merges several small groups or queenless colonies into other bee colonies to give full play to the nurturing, collecting and resilience of existing bees. Honey bees after overwintering are very valuable, and if the colony is too weak after wintering, its fecundity will be weak; If a colony loses its crown, the colony loses its fertility; During the large honey flow period, weak bee colonies are produced. The force is very poor; In late autumn, small flocks are not conducive to overwintering.

In these cases, the colonies should be merged in a timely manner.

Merging bee colonies should follow the following principles: the weak colony is merged into the strong colony, the non-king colony is merged into the royal colony and the nearby merger, etc. There are two types of consolidation: direct consolidation and indirect consolidation.

The direct merging method is to put the nest spleen and bees with the king group to the side of the beehive, and then put the nest spleen and bees without the king group on the other side, keep a nest spleen distance between the two groups or put a partition in the middle of the two groups, so that after one or two days, after the group tastes compatible, the partition can be removed and the two groups can be put together. This method is suitable for early spring reproduction and the high flow of honey, when the bees are not very sensitive to group taste.

The indirect merger method is to put the king group in a nest box, the king group (or the weak group that has taken the king) into the succession box, put an iron yarn or a newspaper with many small holes in the middle of the two boxes, after 1 2 days, the group flavor is mixed, and the bees bite the newspaper after the merger is successful. This method is suitable for non-honey flow periods, as well as bee colonies that have been lost for a long time and have many old bees and few spleens. For bee colonies that have been lost for a long time, 1 2 boxes of larval spleens should be replenished before merging.

Before the merger of the bee colony, add a little liquor or honey to the original group box, which is conducive to mixing the flavor of the group, and the merging of the bee colony is easy to be successful.

In order to ensure the safety of the queen bee, when merging the colony, the queen bee can be buckled to the nest spleen, and then released from the cage after the merger is successful.