How many months are there to cut honey for soil-raised Chinese bees?

Cutting honey is the old method of beekeeping honey, refers to the part of the hive in the storage of honey with a knife cut down, and the common market box honey can be harvested several times, usually only once a year and this harvest is with the destructive, harvesting will be with the hive together with the hive cut down, the following we will take a look at the soil raised in the middle bee in the months of cutting honey it!

What month does a native bee cut its honey?

The soil-raised Chinese bees usually cut honey in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, but honey can be cut from the middle of the rapeseed blossom to the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the middle of rapeseed flower, the natural barrel of Chinese bees reproduce vigorously, the eggs of the insect spleen in succession, pollen influx, but not much honey, although the honey can be cut, but the yield is not high, you can start from the last division of the bees to calculate the twenty days before and after the highest yield of honey cut, in the cutting of honey outside the box with a finger from the top to the bottom of the flick a few times, the sound of the dull is the nectar layer, the light is the sub-tempered layer, the empty ringing is no honey.

Two, when to cut honey in the soil raised bees?

The soil-raised Chinese bees can cut honey when "the hive is over the beam, wide up to the shoulder, and the bees are near the bottom". The hive is over the beam means that the hive spleens are more than below the cross in the middle, the wide up to the shoulder means that all the hive spleens that are more than the cross and below the shoulder are glued to the two walls of the bucket on both sides, and the bees are near the bottom means that the swarms of the wrapped hive are close to the bottom of the bucket, and at this time the honey, the hive, the bees and the bucket have reached a good level. At this time, the honey, the hive, the bees and the bucket reach the optimum swarm potential, at this time, the honey cut will not appear to fall spleen, and because of the honey cut and broken spleen repair is also very fast, and after inverting the bucket to create a spleen is also fast.

Three, soil raised in the bee cut honey method

1, first of all, with a knife handle in the box outside the gently knocking to make the commotion, in advance to send a signal will reduce the viciousness of the bees, and then blow a few mouths of smoke to the box with aiye, the swarm of bees will be tied into the nest of the large amount of honey sucking, a little bit of time to wait for a full of honey sucking bees on the docile more.

2, and then uncover the top of the bucket, the bucket according to the direction of the hive spleen and the ground into 90 ° flat, the bottom of the pad a thick block of wood so that the honey this side is lower than the other end, ai smoke to drive the bees, the mouth of the bucket connected to the basin, with a long knife along the inside of the bucket wall around the cut to the cross until.

3, then take the spleen cutter along the bee road into the twisted 90 degrees, smoothly from this end to the other end, carefully remove the entire hive honey spleen that is the hive honey, liquid honey can be dug directly into the basin with a rice spoon, digging to the powder spleen that is, stop to prevent the fall of the spleen.

4, cut the honey while cutting the side of the bee drive, cut the bucket after the recovery of the box, the bees outside the box will climb into the bucket, let the bees repair the hive spleen overnight, the next day to turn the bucket upside down after the bees will be from the top to the bottom of the development of the spleen, and at the same time to deal with the honey fell on the ground.