The newbie beekeeping techniques.

Beginner beekeeping techniques

I. Splitting techniques

1. Natural bee splitting: Natural bee splitting is a natural behavior after the development of a certain size of bee colony, the advantage is that it conforms to the bee splitting habit of bees, and it can be recovered quickly and basically will not come back to the bees after splitting, the disadvantage is that there are a lot of uncertainties in the time of the natural splitting of the bees, the slightest carelessness in the management of the bee colony may cause the splitting swarm to fly away. The disadvantage is that there are a lot of uncertainties in the time of natural bee separation, and the slightest carelessness in the management of the bee colony may lead to the escape of the separated swarm.

2. Artificial bee-splitting: Artificial bee-splitting is to split the bee colony into two or more colonies artificially. The advantage is that the time of bee-splitting can be decided freely, and as long as the climate and the swarming situation are satisfied, the bees can be split artificially; the disadvantage is that artificial bee-splitting requires the beekeeper to have certain technology, and the phenomenon of returning bees is easy to occur if the bees are not operated prudently during the artificial bee-splitting process.

Second, intervene in the new king

1, the principle: honey bees are typical swarming insects, each swarm has a unique odor (group odor), in fact, the odor is also the main basis for bees to identify whether they are in the same hive or not, the basic principle of intervening in the king is to find ways to confuse the queen and the swarm of the odor, as long as the odor is the same, the swarm will accept the intervention of the new queen.

2, operation: there are two main methods of mediating between the king and indirect mediating between the king, buy queen bees online is generally recommended to use a relatively safe indirect mediating between the king method, the specific operation is the queen in the cage or mediating between the queen, and then the queen will be fastened in the honey spleen and sprayed with some honey to confuse the odor, and so on, when the colony accepts the queen and then put the queen out.