Bees naturally divide their bees, so why don t the bees fly away directly, but clump near the apiary

The natural division of bees does not fly away directly, but first clumps near the apiary for a period of time, that is because the natural division of bees in the bee colony has standard procedures and rules, and the colony must follow the procedure.

When the new king is about to leave the house, the worker bees will start to fly away. Don't give the queen bee royal jelly first, so that the queen bee can lose weight and make it easier to fly. The young bees also stop collecting and eat enough honey in the hive to maintain their strength in the next few days, and they can also quickly wax and build a nest when they find a new hive, so that the colony can develop rapidly.

Escaps generally choose when the climate is suitable and sunny, and the escaps are mostly said at 10-15 o'clock in spring, and the hot summer will be in the cool morning.

At this time, there is a buzz in the beehive, and the escape bees will begin. First, a part of the worker bees rushed out of the nest gate, hovering and buzzing in mid-air, conveying the message that the bees had fled. It turns out that the more worker bees join the team, the more worker bees in the hive will coerce the queen bee to fly out.

When the queen bee flies out of the nest, the worker bees who want to fly away follow out, and the black pressure is swirling and flying. At this time, a scout bee found a foothold - on the wall of a branch cave near the apiary, and led the queen bee to stop here. The other worker bees will follow the queen bee's breath and stay next to the queen bee to form a bee group.

It wasn't until all the fleeing bees had gathered that the apiary fell silent.

Then the scout bees are out again, looking for places where they can nest - tree holes, rock crevices, etc. It is not easy to find a quiet and hygienic place that can shelter from the wind and rain, so the well-formed bee colony sometimes does not move for several days.

It is not until the scout bee finds a satisfactory place and comes back to tell the colony that the bees of the entire bee colony will flock to the queen bee and go straight to the destination, and the escape bee is truly completed.

Of course, if there are many cave walls around, the scout bee will find a place where it can be used as a nest when the escape bee occurs, and they will live directly in it. If there are few places to nest, the bee colony will stay for a few days.

Therefore, knowing the process of the bee fled, it is clear why it first stayed nearby and then flew away.

People who have raised bees know that when the bees develop to a certain extent or the quality of the queen bee is not good, the bee colony is easy to divide the bees, once the bees have the mood of the bees, it is easy to be passive and slack off, a very small number of worker bees come out to collect honey in the morning, and when the weather is hotter, there will be a large number of bees gushing out of the bee door to fly around, and it will not take long to fall and clump at a place less than 100 meters away from the nest.

I have raised bees for a few years, generally speaking, in Guangxi, most of the bees are divided into bees in the weather of long rain and early sunshine, and sometimes in one day, a group of bees can be separated. By the time the rest of the colony had flown away, there were only a small number of bees collecting pollen in the entire hive, and the honey in the colony had basically been eaten.

Through my research on bees, most bees fly to a lower position than they originally used to clump when they divide bees. Generally, when the bees first start to form a group, they are still relatively active, and after more than 10 minutes, the whole colony is basically quiet, and the colony will send out worker bees to find a new nest. In only about 3 hours, if the worker bees find a new nest, the entire colony will move to the new nest, and even if they can't find it, they will fly farther away to form a group in search of the hive.

From this, it is not difficult to see that there are two reasons why bees generally clump not far from the nest and do not fly away.

First, stabilize the colony and confirm that the queen bee has followed. After confirming that the queen bee comes out, the bee colony is basically quiet and will not fly back to the original hive, if it does not come out, the worker bees will fly back to the original hive, and continue to divide the bees after a few minutes.

Second, look for a new nest. Generally, there are few new bees that find a hive and then divide the bees, and they clump nearby in order to find a new hive not far from the original location.

I think the bees will clump not far from their original nests.

For these two reasons.

It's an honor to see your Q&A information, and I'll also talk about my own experience and opinions, because my hometown is in Ba Dashan, Shaanxi Province, there are more than ten barrels of natural soil honey at home, in recent years, my soil honey is basically not enough to sell in advance, and the most harvest is more than 100 catties of soil honey a year, seeing your question, I will call up my family bees, maybe my point of view is a little old-fashioned and a little superstitious, please forgive me for my direct, years of observation, if in the process of dividing bees, the whole bee colony is separated from the original bee colony, stop not far away, this phenomenon shows that this bee colony will not go far, it should be found in the original hive near the new suitable hive point, in rural terms is your own fortune arrived, this time only you need to recruit bees is your source of wealth, if the separate bee colony stays in a very high place, that is a temporary rest, the bee colony to go to a distant place, you don't have to work in vain, recruiting bees will not be successful. There is also a situation that the bee colony flying from afar, stopped not far from home, if the position is not high, then you hurry up to recruit bees, if the position is very high, the same words do not work in vain, the bees will not be successful, I hope my suggestions are helpful to everyone, please bear with me.

Hello, dear. There are two explanations for this situation: 1 is the bee period, the bee colony has to divide the bees, if the worker bees fly out, and the queen bee is blocked in the hive by the anti-escape device, then the swarm will return to the hive if it cannot find the queen bee.

2. The bee colony flies away, and the same situation is that the queen bee can't come out, and the bee colony can only return to the hive. I've never seen anything else run out and run in again.

Hello, your problem teacher will help you inquire as follows: causes and solutions for clumping: 1. The temperature of the beehive is too high in summer, and the temperature in the beehive is easily too high, which is not conducive to the growth of the queen bee and young bees in the beehive, so a large number of bees will run to the door of the hive to fan the wind with their wings, which can effectively reduce the temperature in the hive.

2. If the beehive is overcrowded, if the bee colony in the beehive has been expanded on a large scale, and the nest spleen in the beehive has not increased in time, it will be modeled into a situation where the bees cannot have a spleen, and the bees will form a clump outside the beehive. 3. The problem of bee colony bee theft is generally scarce in summer, and the bee colony is prone to bee theft, once the bee theft occurs, then it will appear outside the beehive to form a clump, and the beekeeper can strengthen the overall feeding of the bee colony, and at the same time reduce the beehive nest door, fill in the beehive gap, cover up the stolen bee colony nest door, and then expand the nest door after the bee stealing bee disappears, and increase ventilation. I hope the teacher's reply can help you!

Have a great day! Thank you!

It depends on the situation,,, there is no specific time for this, generally, there will be a queen bee in the hive, but they will breed future queen bees at the same time, and there can be multiple at the same time. You can carefully check the hive, if there is a hive that is different from the surrounding one, especially different, then most of this is the queen pupa in cultivation. When this royal pupa grows up, then the bees will divide the bees.

I'm from Hainan, and from the beginning of the first month, we will have bee fever here, and it will not stop until the beginning of summer. Then in July, the thorn blossoms bloom, and the bee fever begins. From August to September, the white-faced stem blooms, and the bee fever begins.

Then Xiao Mang, the size mimosa and other pollen nectar sources, also on the period of posting, is another round of bee fever. Because the temperature here is suitable, there is a source of pollen and nectar. Therefore, when the external source of powder and honey is sufficient, and the outside temperature is suitable, it will cause bee heat.

During the period from January to summer, the bees are generally not selected, and the honey is mainly collected at this time, which is mainly to eliminate the bee fever, but there are also eucalyptus honey that are not cut, and the artificial bees are also used in the summer.

Because the temperature and pollen nectar source are different in various places, you can't let others follow your approach to the pollen nectar source temperature in a region.

It does not divide the bees and generally occurs in the spring. The queen bee leads the migration of the members of the colony 2 3, giving up the throne to another bee. While the scout bees go out to find a suitable nesting site, the colony of the split bees rests near the original hive.

At this time, the bees will never attack, because they are well prepared when they leave the nest, and each of them has honey in their mouths.

Honey production is insufficient, and there are more hives used as sub-spleens, at which time the queen bee eggs are increased, which must be solved by dividing the bees; Or hormones can prompt the birth of a new queen bee, forcing the old queen to leave the nest. When dividing the bees, the old queen bee only takes a few bees and leaves more bees for the new queen bee. The queen bee is in a colony and has a lifespan of 3 to 5 years.

Due to the gradual decline in the reproductive rate of the elderly queen bee, it is often artificially eliminated in the beekeeping industry.

Artificial bee splitting is an essential way to increase the number of bee colonies and expand production, allowing for the acquisition of new colonies at the most suitable time according to the plan. The combination of artificial bee division and improved breed breeding can also improve the quality of bee colonies and overcome the blindness of natural bee distribution. In determining the time of artificial bee distribution, we advocate that we should "raise the king early and divide the bees early" according to the actual situation, and strive to make a greater contribution to the new bee colony during the main honey flow period.

In the case of a strong colony and a long proliferation period, if you do not divide the bees first, but pay attention to raising a strong group, the strongest period of the bee colony will appear before the main honey collection period, and it will inevitably produce bee fever, and then the bees will be more than worth the loss. In the case of a short proliferation period, when the new colony cannot make a greater contribution in the main honey flow period, several extra-strong colonies can be organized as soon as possible, and the queen bee stored in the previous year can be used to achieve the purpose of early classification, that is, to obtain new colonies under the condition of ensuring the smooth development of most of the original populations. When the original group reaches a certain extent, the young bees and pupal spleen of the original group can also be used to strengthen the new group, so as to achieve the dual purpose of controlling the original group to produce bee fever and strengthening the new group.

There are generally the following methods for artificial bee separation:

Average bee division method: this method should use a stronger bee colony, when the spleen reaches seven to eight frames, take another beehive, divide the spleen and honey spleen evenly so that the two boxes are about half a meter away from the original site, and then induce an egg-laying queen bee to the queen bee colony after half a day or a day.

Combined bee separation method: This method is to let the stronger bee colonies that have reached more than nine frames of bees do their best: bees to lift bees, eggs to lift eggs, pupae to lift pupa, honey to extract honey, powder to extract powder, after proposing, the original group to fill the nest base or empty spleen.

<><1. After the bees naturally divide the bees, they will generally clump near the original hive for 2 or 3 hours, and during the clumping period, the bee colony will confirm whether there is a queen bee in the bee colony and wait for other worker bees who have not returned to the team, and at the same time, the bee colony will also send a large number of reconnaissance bees out to find a new nest site, and wait for the reconnaissance bees to find a suitable nest site after the bee colony disperses and flies to the new nest site.

2. The first clumping of bees after natural bee division is the best time to capture the bee colony, so the beekeeper should always pay attention to the movement of the bee colony during this time when the bee colony is about to occur natural bee division, and it is not so simple to catch it back once the bee colony is scattered and flies away, because the second clumping distance of the bee colony is farther and the height of the clumping will be higher.