Bees breed in autumn, a few days before and after beginning of autumn.

The autumn reproduction of bees changes with the climate around the early autumn.

The purpose of autumn breeding:

The main purpose of bee breeding in autumn is to cultivate overwintering bees of appropriate age. Age-appropriate overwintering bees refer to young bees that have only excreted and flown for 2-3 times, but have not been breastfed and collected. The life span of this worker bee is longer than that of ordinary worker bees, and it can survive until the next spring. In general, the more age-appropriate bees in the bee colony overwinter, the safer it is to overwinter. In addition, the more worker bees there are after safe wintering.

Start time:

The autumn breeding time of bees varies with the climate and bee species in different places. Italian bees in the north generally start breeding in autumn from beginning of autumn, while Italian bees in the south postpone breeding in autumn after the Mid-Autumn Festival. They can also go back 60 days according to the local winter time (the temperature is kept below 10℃), and the local people usually enter the winter on the lunar calendar 10. August of the lunar calendar, 60 days backward, is the autumn breeding time of local bees.

End time:

The end time of autumn bee breeding varies with the regional climate. Because when the temperature is low to a certain extent, bees spend the winter together in the hive, so the autumn breeding in areas where winter comes early also ends early, and the end time of different autumn breeding is different.

Breeding skills and precautions in autumn:

1, autumn breeding skills:

(1) Reward feeding: The purpose of reward feeding is to promote the rapid propagation of bees. The principle is that bees breed new bees according to the number of honey sources. Reward feeding can give bees the illusion that honey sources are rich and easy to collect, but the feed for reward feeding must be strictly disinfected.

(2) Timely spleen supplement: The basic principle of spleen supplement is to ensure the extra spleen of bees, which can be appropriately relaxed to match the spleen of bees when the climate is suitable and there are few diseases. Among them, the middle strengthening colony is beneficial to the rapid spleen building of bees, and the addition of weak colonies on both sides is beneficial to the protection of nests and spleen.

(3) Disease prevention: The breeding period of bees in autumn is precisely the period of frequent occurrence of diseases and insect pests. If disease prevention and control is not done well, autumn breeding is simply empty talk, especially infectious bee diseases may endanger the whole bee colony, so disease prevention and control must be done well during autumn breeding.

Precautions:

(1) The time for bees to breed in autumn mainly depends on the climate in different places. If the time is uncertain, it should be sooner rather than later, otherwise the bees may not have time to cultivate suitable overwintering bees.

(2) During the whole autumn breeding period, bees should insist on reward breeding, but the quality of feed must be controlled during reward breeding, otherwise bee diseases will easily break out due to problems such as inferior feed.