A detailed introduction of wild bees

Wild bees generally refer to mountain bees. Wild bees live in tree holes and crevices in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas and live in groups. Generally, the bee colony consists of about 60,000 bees, and the larger bee colony can reach about 70,000 bees. Each swarm of bees consists of a queen bee, tens of thousands of worker bees and hundreds of drones. The queen bee and worker bee in the bee colony are permanent bees, while the drone only appears in the breeding period.

Wild bees mostly choose leeward in winter and live in cool places in summer. Wild bees have strong cold tolerance, and can safely spend the winter at MINUS 35℃ ~ 38℃ in winter. It can still work as usual when the temperature is 35℃ in summer.

Wild bees collect nectar from wild plants, but rarely from crops. Wild bees are diligent in collecting nectar, and they will try their best to collect nectar even if there are few sources of nectar. At noon in early spring and late autumn, you still fly out to work, generally working 30 ~ 45 days more than domestic bees every year.

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Matters needing attention in raising wild bees

1, temperature control

In summer, beehives should be placed in damp and cool places with few enemies. If there is no shady forest around the bee farm, you can build a temporary arbor to prevent heatstroke and cool down, and at the same time do a good job of rain protection. Before winter, mud should be smeared around the bee barrel, the bottom of the barrel and the gap of the bottle cap.

2. Control grouping

Before and after beginning of autumn, bees were easily grouped. When the two groups are separated, the new queen bee will be strangled. Cultivate a strong group.

3. Beware of enemy injuries

There are many natural enemies of mountain bees, such as voles, ants, toads, snakes and spiders. In order to prevent their harm, fences should be added around the bee barrels.

4. Prevention of plant poisoning

It is best to stay away from farmland, chemical plants, quarries and other places that may be harmful to pesticides and smoke. It's best to put the hive in the wind.

Step 5 prevent bees from escaping

Sometimes after receiving bees, I find that all the bees have run away a few days later. This is mainly because the surrounding environment is not good, there is smoke, medicine or other harmful smell, or there are bacterial infections, parasites, animal interference and so on.

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