When do bees in China collect honey in the soil?

Honey cutting is an ancient method of taking honey from beekeeping, that is, cutting the honey stored in the beehive with a knife. Unlike the common boxed honey on the market, it can only be harvested once a year, and this harvest is destructive. When harvesting, it will be cut together with the beehive. Let's take a look at the bees in the local culture collecting honey for several months!

1. In what month do bees in China collect honey?

China native bees usually collect honey in May of the lunar calendar, but they can collect honey from the middle of rape blossom to the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the middle stage of rape blossom, Chinese bees in natural barrels proliferate vigorously, their eggs and spleen are contiguous, and pollen flows in in large quantities, but there is not much honey. Although honey can be cut, the yield is not high. It can be counted from the last honey distribution of bees, and the highest honey production is about 20 days. Before cutting honey, your fingers flicked from top to bottom outside the box, and the sound was flat, that is, the honey layer, the light sound was the spleen layer, and the empty sound was no honey.

Second, when do bees in the soil collect honey?

Soil-cultured bees can cut honey when the nest is over the beam and shoulder-wide and the bees are near the bottom. When the nest is on the beam, the spleen exceeds the mid-span and the width reaches the shoulder, which means that all the sides of the nested spleen are attached to the two walls of the bee barrel. When bees wrap their hives near the bottom, honey, nests, bees and barrels reach the best colony potential. At this time, the spleen will not fall off when cutting honey, and the damaged nest spleen will be repaired.

Third, the honey cutting method of Chinese bees raised in soil

1. First, tap the outside of the box with the handle to stir it. Sending a signal in advance will reduce the ferocity of Chinese bees. Then, blow a few mouthfuls of mugwort smoke into the box, and the bees will plunge into the nest and suck a lot of honey. After a while, bees covered with honey will be much more docile.

2. Then uncover the top cover of the bee barrel, lay the bee barrel flat at 90 degrees to the ground in the direction of the nest and spleen, and pad a thick wooden block at the bottom to make one side of honey lower than the other. Moxa smoke will drive the bees away, pick up the pot at the mouth of the barrel, and cut it along the inner wall of the barrel with a long knife until it reaches the cross.

3. Then insert the spleen knife along the bee path, twist it 90 degrees, and row smoothly from one end to the other. Carefully take out the whole nest of honey spleen, that is, nest honey Liquid honey can be directly dug into the basin with a rice spoon, and it will stop when the powder spleen is dug to prevent the powder spleen from falling.

4. When cutting honey, drive away bees while cutting. After cutting, the bees will recover. Bees outside the box will climb into the bucket and let the bees repair their nests and spleen overnight. The next day, after the bee barrel is turned upside down, the bees will develop their spleen from top to bottom and dispose of the honey on the ground at the same time.