Why do you put salt at the bottom of your beehive, and when is the best time to put salt?

Salt deficiency in bees can cause bees to deteriorate in physical condition. In the process of beekeeping, this phenomenon is often not easy for us to detect and judge, so we can only prevent it from the management. Carry out bee salt feeding.

Generally, in the case of low temperature, it is best to use the nest door to feed water.

First of all, the first disadvantage of sprinkling salt at the bottom of the hive is that the bees entering and leaving the hive door can easily bring salt to the hive spleen, so that in the spring, the colony may have more or less problems after long-term excessive salt intake, but the symptoms will be slightly milder. The second disadvantage of sprinkling salt at the bottom of the beehive is that during the honey source period or long-term rainy weather, the salt in the beehive will melt when encountered, and the salt water will flow from the cracks in the hive and the nest door to the outside of the beehive.

Hello, dear, no need to add salt. Hu Mao.

1. Do not put salt in the honey to feed the bees, because the honey already contains salt to cultivate the ingredients. Artificially putting salt in honey will make the salt content of honey too high. The high salt content of honey can make young bees feel thirsty and die in ponds and streams before they leave their nests in search of water.

Second, it is not worthy of adding salt to the key in sugar water, because it is not easy to grasp the exact dosage. 3. Do not feed bees with low-sodium salt, because low-sodium salt contains a large amount of potassium chloride in addition to sodium chloride. Potassium chloride is harmful to bees, it can affect the development of larvae, so that the larvae cannot hatch properly and die after capping.

In fact, many friends do not feed salt in actual breeding, but it is clear that bees do not show a lack of salt. What's going on? In fact, it does not mean that the bees do not eat salt when we do not feed salt in the bee colony, for example, when the outside honey is sufficient, in fact, although we do not feed the bees salt at this time, the actual bees receive a certain amount of salt intake.

The reason is that the food pollen and honey of bees contain inorganic salts, and in the case that we do not feed salt, bees can obtain salt from pollen and honey, so even if we do not feed salt bees in the case of abundant nectar flow and good climatic conditions, we do not show a lack of salt. In fact, the symptoms caused by bee salt deficiency are not obvious, generally manifested as bee physique deterioration, and in the process of beekeeping, often this phenomenon is not easy for us to find, nor easy to judge, so only from the management to prevent.

The way the bees feed salt.

Generally speaking, in bee breeding, bee salt feeding is combined with water feeding, and the common way of feeding salt is mainly to add salt to water when feeding water, so the way bees feed salt is actually the same as the way we feed water, but there is no problem of adding salt to the water, and feeding water needs to fully consider the outside temperature and nectar source conditions, so there are more ways to feed water, let's take a look at the common way of feeding.

First: Feed salt at the nest door.

The method of feeding water at the nest door is to fill the water with salt at the door of each beehive with a bottle or the like, and then load a cotton thread with better water absorption from the mouth of the bottle, so that the salt water is drained along the cotton thread to the inside of the hive door, so that the bees can drink water in the hive.

This quiet way of feeding water is mainly due to the low temperature outside, the bees are difficult to fly, and the unboxed feeding is easy to cause the bees to be frozen, so the nest door feeding method is often used in the case of relatively low temperature.

In this case, if you put salt in the box, no bees will fly over.

Bees generally like something sweet, like bee pollen, which may not be the case with salt.

Put salt in the box. Will there be bees and bees flying in?