After the center enters the summer, is it time for the queen bee to abdicate if she doesn t lay eggs

Some people's first reaction will be that this is the king, and the king must be changed. In the author's opinion, if it is not an old king, then it is more likely - this is a good king!

1. The reason why the queen bee does not lay eggs

The summer solstice has passed, and the summer heat is coming, as the temperature rises, the high temperature does not decrease, and the sultry climate is not suitable for the growth and development of bees. Moreover, the bees themselves have the habit of being afraid of heat, and their metabolism will accelerate in a high-temperature environment, which accelerates the aging of the bee body. If at this time, they also devote special energy to feed the bees, they consume more, and die faster, and the replacement of the old and the new is not equal, but the gains outweigh the losses.

Second, the disadvantages of queen bees desperately laying eggs

High temperature is not suitable for bees to grow, and it is difficult for adult bees to spare energy to continue to feed bees.

Let's take a look at what will happen if Wang does not make corresponding adjustments with the changes in the outside world, and the production is reduced or stopped: the bee colony is prone to the situation that the larvae such as "standing pupae" and "rotting seeds" cannot successfully pupate, giving people the illusion of larval disease, but the medicine stone is ineffective, and can only be consumed; Under the double pressure of high temperature and high workload, the lifespan of adult bees is greatly shortened, and the colony shrinkage is accelerated. If the king is urged to lay eggs in order not to stop the production of bees, or a new king is replaced to lay eggs, it will inevitably form a vicious circle of more "multiplication", "rotten", and "multiplication" and weaker in the end.

3. It is good for queen bees to reduce their egg production

Some queen bees are not powerful, do not know how to reduce or stop production independently, and some bee friends will artificially add a control sleeve to make the queen bee stop production. After all, to put it bluntly, the summer of the bee colony is the process of the queen bee stopping production, the worker bees stopping other work, concentrating on collecting water, fanning the wind, and cooling down to survive the hot summer.

If you don't want bees to spend the summer, instead of promoting reproduction and changing the king, it is better to find a way to create a suitable microclimate for the bee colony and confirm that the external source of honey is sufficient. When the environment is good, the bee colony will naturally start to give birth, with good environmental support, and the external pollen source is good, if you want the bee colony to strike for the summer, they will definitely be the first to disagree. However, as the saying goes, "there are only hot bees, no starving bee colonies", no matter how good the honey flow outside, if there is no good microclimate, even if the bee colony actively collects honey and raises children, and when the nectar source is over, the loss of the bee colony may be far greater than the gain.

Therefore, in summer, the focus of bee colony management should be on the shade of the bee colony, with safety as the first criterion, and then taking into account bees and honey.

Of course not, it is very likely that there is a problem with the secret source. If there is not enough honey in the hive, it will lead to a decrease in egg production.

Because the temperature in summer is relatively high, bees are afraid of heat and high temperature environment, and their metabolism will accelerate and accelerate aging, so they will not nurse their children.

It should be determined according to the actual situation, different seals, different temperatures, and specific conditions are different.