How to feed bees in winter to survive the winter?

In winter, there are fewer and fewer external flower sources, and it is more and more difficult for bees to collect food for wintering.

At this time, artificial supplementation of overwintering feed is essential, mainly to supplement sugar water and a small amount of powder, of which the supplement of sugar water must be scientific, otherwise it is difficult to achieve the wish.

First of all, it is necessary to grasp the timing of feeding, and it is necessary to finish feeding before the severe cold arrives.

It is easy to mislead bees to attend a large number of hours too early and fly in vain; If the temperature is too low too late, the bees have clumped, which is easy to cause no picking and not eating, or the difficulty of postharvest processing increases, and the consequence of excessive physical energy consumption of bees will disrupt the normal life order of bees. If feeding for many days in a row, it can also be appropriately broken the convention, that is, interspersed in a small group of women from time to time every day to avoid bees from flying out every evening due to conditioned reflexes.

Secondly, it is necessary to improve the quality of feeding.

First, the concentration of sugar water should be appropriately increased, preferably about 1. The second is to add other nutrients, such as milk powder, vitamins and edible salt, and stir well. Third, the amount of feeding should be appropriate.

According to the different bee species and the difference in the strength of the group, "the amount of bees and vote", that is, the bees vote more, the bees vote less, the strong group votes more, the weak group votes less, the honey store less votes, and the honey stores less more. Fourth, when feeding for the first time, the temperature of the sugar water can be slightly higher than the temperature at that time, so as to attract bees to suck it.

Third, it is necessary to prevent ants from stealing food in swarms.

Ants like sweets, especially the black and yellow ants are the most powerful, if they are unprepared, not only steal sugar water, but also can temporarily inhabit inside and outside the beehive cover in severe cases, and finally force the weak bees to move their families. How to deal with it: First, pay attention to finding the ant nest and completely destroy the nest.

The second is to place the four legs of the beehive rack in a basin or bucket filled with clean water to form an impassable water area for ants and make the box independent of space. The third is to check the box in time and eliminate it on the spot after it is found, but it must not be sprayed with an ant and mosquito killer, because the drug is a great threat to bees.

In addition, cockroaches and other insects also like to sneak into beehives to steal sugar water and honey, and once found, try to eliminate them. The unpacking time should not be too long, especially do not mix feeding and checking the box, so as not to cause robber bees for too long.

For bees, bees will not spend the winter in winter, but overwinter by holding together, so it is a problem to keep the bees warm, and secondly, another main way for bees to produce heat during the winter is to increase metabolism and produce heat through a large amount of feeding, so the bees' demand for food in winter is relatively large, and we must prepare sufficient food for the bees, otherwise the bees may starve to death in winter.

Since the bees need food in winter, and in the winter we can not open the box to check, nor can we feed in the winter, because the winter bees need to form a clump for winter, if we feed through the feeder, it will inevitably cause the bees to scatter, bee heat production relies on the heat generated by the group to occupy a large part, it is obvious that the bees are not allowed to leave the group, so in the winter, in fact, we feed the bees food, can only be fed by the way of the honeycomb, and we also have to use the mature honeyspart, This determines that we feed the bees food in the winter, and we need to feed the bees before the winter, and whether it is necessary to feed, it depends on the amount of honey stored in the colony before we overwinter, and the amount of honey stored in the colony before the bees overwinter is either enough or not enough.

First: Honey is abundant in the colony before the bees overwinter.

If there is enough honey in the colony before the bees overwinter, one of the questions we need to pay attention to is whether the honey is fully ripe, so in the autumn honey source before the bees overwinter, we need to pay attention to the amount of honey stored in the bee colony, according to the length of the local winter and the colony of the bees to leave enough honey for the bees, and leave enough time for the bees to brew the honey to the cap, for this case, we don't need to feed the bees food.

Second: there is not enough honey in the colony before the bees overwinter.

If the honey in the bee colony is insufficient before wintering, then we need to subsidize feeding, feeding is generally fed with white sugar water, feeding in the proportion of 2 parts of white sugar and one part of water, feeding time in the evening or night, the syrup bees fed that night should be eaten that night to avoid causing bee theft, and the time should not be too long when feeding, generally choose to feed the honeycomb within a week to ten days.

Dali is not too cold in winter, as long as you keep enough honey, there is no big problem to paste the beehive leakage.

The common wintering methods for keeping bees are: indoor overwintering, outdoor overwintering, and outdoor packaged overwintering. Feeding method: Reserve overwintering feed and cultivate age-appropriate overwintering bees.

The following are the wintering methods and feeding methods for keeping bees in winter:

Wintering ways. Outdoor wintering is generally for the southern climate is warmer places, this kind of place is generally shorter winter, wintering beehives do not need to be over-packed, simple packaging can be. Outdoor packaging wintering is suitable for cold in winter, but the time is not as strong as in the northern region, so this kind of place generally uses the inner packaging and outer packaging insulation to let the bees overwinter, and some bee friends use the darkroom wintering method.

Indoor wintering generally refers to the northern region, where the winter mountains are relatively long and cold, and outdoor wintering is more difficult, so indoor wintering or cellar wintering is generally adopted.

Feeding method. For winter, because bees can't collect honey, we need to carry out continuous auxiliary feeding or sufficient honeycomb spleen reserves for bees when the temperature has not dropped seriously in autumn, enough for bees to eat for a winter, and the specific amount of storage can be determined according to the length of our local winter. Cultivating age-appropriate overwintering bees is mainly to breed a group of young bees who have gone through two or three refreshing flights in autumn, but have not participated in the feeding work and collection work, these bees can feed a batch of larvae in the spring of the next year because the royal jelly glands have not developed, so that the new bees can alternate after coming out of the house in the next year.

Winter bees feed food:

1. Insert the honeycomb: insert the honeycomb in the side spleen or the side of the second spleen, in autumn and winter, in order to make the bee colony break early, when the temperature is about to drop to 10 degrees Celsius, the honeycomb can be inserted in the honeycomb.

2. Feed high-quality white sugar for syrup, the ratio of sugar to water is 10:4, add tartaric acid and citric acid, heat, fully dissolve, and when it is cool to lukewarm, feed it with a feeder in the evening.

3. When rewarding supplementary feeding, the concentration of honey and syrup is relatively thin, and the ratio of honey to sugar water is generally 1:1. The number and number of rewards should be based on the weather, nectar source, and internal conditions of the colony such as bee potential, spleen, and storage.

1. Cultivate age-appropriate wintering bees. The so-called age-appropriate overwintering bees refer to worker bees that have not participated in collection activities and excretory flights. If there are more age-appropriate overwintering bees in the bee colony, the overwintering is safe, the feed consumption is less, and the colony is developing faster in spring. On the contrary, it is difficult to overwinter, the worker bees die early, and the spring reproduction is slow.

2. Store overwintering feed. Choosing to keep the capping honeycomb is a major task of autumn management, because temporarily feeding honey or syrup before wintering will increase the work burden of bees, such as the honeycomb spleen is too late to cap, it is easy to deteriorate in winter, causing bees to have diarrhea.

3. Treatment of mites and disease prevention. In autumn, the spleen of the colony decreases rapidly, while the number of bee mites increases significantly, in order to ensure the safe wintering of the colony, the treatment of mites should start before breeding overwintering bees. When treating mites, the capped spleen can be transferred into a separate group, and the same fumigation treatment can be carried out after the capped spleen is discharged.

First of all, it is necessary to grasp the timing of feeding, and it is necessary to finish feeding before the severe cold arrives. It is easy to mislead bees to attend a large number of hours too early and fly in vain; If the temperature is too late and the temperature is low, the bees have clumped, which is easy to cause not to pick and eat, or the difficulty of postharvest processing increases;

The consequence of excessive physical consumption of bees disrupts the normal life order of bees. If feeding for many days in a row, it can also be appropriate to break the convention, that is, every day in a small number of groups from time to time interspersed with advance grinding, to avoid bees due to conditioned reflex to fly out every evening, to improve the quality of feeding, sugar water concentration to be appropriately increased, about 1 is better.

Add other nutrients such as milk powder, vitamins and salt, and stir well. The amount of feeding should be appropriate, according to the different bee species and the difference in the strength of the group, "the amount of bees and vote", that is, the bees are more cast, the bees are less cast, the strong group is more cast, the weak group is less voted, the honey is less cast, and the honey is less cast.

<> honey begins to overwinter in December every year, and as the temperature gradually drops, the bee colony will huddle together to keep warm, and the lower the temperature, the tighter the hug. When raising bees, be sure to prepare enough food for them to avoid starvation in the winter. It is also possible to merge two weaker bee colonies to make them survive the winter more smoothly.