How to raise Chinese honey bees

Chinese honey bee breeding includes management in spring, summer, fall and winter. Spring management includes strengthening heat preservation, rewarding feeding, expanding egg rings and controlling splitting of bees; summer management includes preparation for the honey season, organizing the swarm, and management of over-summering; autumn management includes cultivating worker bees, storing feed, treating mites and preventing diseases, storing hive spleens, and other management; and winter management includes hive layout, heat preservation in hives, outdoor overwintering, indoor overwintering, and swarm management. Winter management includes hive layout, hive insulation, outdoor overwintering, indoor overwintering, and colony management.

I. Spring management of Chinese honey bees?

1, strengthen the insulation: early spring insulation is not good when the bees in order to maintain the temperature required for the development of larvae will eat a lot of honey and increase the activity, so that the overwintering bees are overworked and die early, not only cause excessive consumption of feed, but also cause the swarm of the spring decline, the serious will be frozen death of the larvae and pupae.

2, reward feeding: reward feeding is a way to promote the development of the bee colony, but in the hive there is a certain amount of honey in the conditions of the hive, each hive spleen should be 0.5 kilograms of honey in the early spring, if there is not enough honey should be a one-time feeding to make up for it, and then a small amount of reward feeding.

3. Expanding the egg circle: Beekeepers often adjust the hive spleens in which the queen bee has laid all her eggs back and forth, so that the egg circle can be rapidly expanded to the whole frame. If the back is capped with honey or the egg-laying circle is restricted by the outer circle of capped honey, it is necessary to use a fast knife that is scalded with hot boiling water to cut open the honey cover.

4, control of bee splitting: Italian bees have 7 to 8 frames, Chinese bees have 4 to 5 frames will be splitting bees, the appearance of the capped royal platform, the queen bee abdomen shrinkage, egg production dropped significantly to stop laying eggs is the harbinger of bee splitting, note that in the main nectar period of the splitting of the bees will be dispersed swarming momentum.

The summer management of Chinese honey bees?

1. Preparation for the nectar period: During the nectar period, try to keep a large number of worker bees in the colony in an active working condition and concentrate on collecting nectar, which must be fully prepared according to the plan of beekeeping production, local conditions, the date of commencement of the major sources of nectar, and the connecting situation of various sources of nectar.

2, the organization of the swarm: the strong swarm of honey harvesting is much higher than the weak swarm, the honey period can be artificially adjusted swarm and hive, the organization of part of the strong swarm of honey harvesting than each swarm of honey harvesting yield is much higher, in addition to the nectar period before the weak swarm merger is relatively simple and easy to implement is the main vice collocation method.

3, summer management: the summer climate is hot, lack of honey and pollen sources, the enemy is serious, feeding management is not good swarm potential will be greatly weakened, apparently caused by high temperature, but in essence is the lack of honey, pollen source of the results, as long as there is honey, pollen source is sufficient, if the queen bee is not completely shut down.

Three, Chinese honey bees in the fall management?

1. Cultivate worker bees: The age-appropriate overwintering bees refer to the worker bees that have not participated in collection activities and excretory flights; the age-appropriate overwintering bees are safe for overwintering, consume less feed, and develop fast in the coming spring, while the opposite is true: the overwintering bees are difficult to overwinter, the worker bees die in advance, and the reproduction is slow in the spring.

2, storage feed: in the last major honey harvesting period when the first take honey to choose to stay four or five hive spleen flat, no male hive by breeding several generations of bees hive spleen on the side of the relay box and expand the bee road, to the second take honey to the honey of the spleen have been capped can be put out of storage.

3, treatment of mites and disease prevention: in the fall of the bee colony spleen rapidly reduced while the number of bee mites but a large increase in the number of mites, in order to ensure the safety of overwintering treatment of mites should be cultivated in the overwintering bees before the beginning of, at the same time in the rewards of feeding and supplemental feeding of feed to add antimicrobials, sulfonamides, etc. can be prevented from infectious diseases.

4, storage of the hive spleen: the hive spleen drawn from the colony in the fall should be scraped with a scraper to scrape the propolis and wax debris on the hive spleen, and the protruding walls of the room should be flattened with a fast knife, and then sprayed with 5% of the new clean and destroy the aqueous solution to disinfect it, and then store it when the liquid dries out, and keep it in a safe place.

5, other management: the lack of nectar in the fall, it is easier to steal bees, improper treatment of mites is also prone to theft, so beekeepers should do a good job of prevention, in addition to encountering low temperatures should pay attention to the hive heat preservation, reduce the hive door to keep the number of bees appropriately dense.

Four, Chinese honey bee winter management?

1, hive layout: the overall requirements of the overwintering hive is the number of bees is appropriately dense, the honey spleen neat, light brown, cold areas can be used to reduce the hive, widen the bee road layout method, the hive enlargement of the honey spleen, the bee road enlarged to 15 millimeters, so that bees are filled with honey bee road up to the following side frame.

2, hive insulation: in winter, depending on the region and swarm potential for appropriate insulation, generally in the honey spleen outside the heat insulation board, outside the heat insulation frame or grass, cotton and other insulation, gauze cover a few sheets of heat insulation above the cover of a good moisture absorption of paper or cover cloth, and then above the grass bushes and cotton pads and other insulation.

3, outdoor overwintering: outdoor overwintering bee colonies overwintering site should be selected to the wind to the sun, relatively dry place, packaging generally use grass curtains to the hives of the left and right and back of the enclosure, the bottom of the box mat grass, between the box, the box cover above and behind the beehive depending on the temperature and then add grass or grass mats.

4, indoor overwintering: outdoor began to freeze after the beehives placed indoors off the ground more than 40 centimeters on the bee rack, generally put three layers of bees, strong swarms in the bottom, weak swarms in the top, room temperature to maintain between -4 ~ 4 ℃, relative humidity 75 ~ 85%, to maintain indoor darkness and silence.

5, swarm management: overwintering swarms should pay attention to both heat preservation and air circulation, to prevent swarms from being smothered, rather cold than hot, hive door in addition to the successor box overwintering swarms to be appropriately large, in the absence of a bee group on the side of the back of the box corner of the gauze cover on the cover cloth or paper folded up in a corner in order to ventilate the air.

Chinese bee breeding tools?

1, beehives: beehives are the most basic beekeeping tools, their specifications vary in size, but the structure is basically the same principle, beginner beekeepers can buy from beekeepers, but also according to the specifications of their own beehives.

2. Hive frames: Hive frames are wooden frames that can fix the foundation of the hive and enable the bees to build the hive spleen.

3, hive foundation: hive foundation is an artificially made hive foundation for bees to build hive spleens, there are mainly two kinds of hive foundations: wax foundation and plastic foundation, and at present, beekeepers mainly use wax foundation.

4, Bee Hat: Bee hat is a protective tool for beekeepers, which mainly prevents the head and neck of beekeepers from bee stings, and it comes in various forms, but the principle of making it is to ensure the lightweight, durability and clear vision.

5, Bee Sweep: Bee Sweep is a special tool to brush down the bees, mainly used to sweep the bees attached to the hive spleen, the general requirements of the bee brush is soft and moderate so as not to brush the bees, so it's best to use the horsehair or horsetail made of horsehair.