How to raise honey? The latest bee breeding technology.

Keeping bees requires the following conditions:

I. Site Conditions

Within a radius of 2.5 kilometers around the site, there should be sufficient main honey sources and auxiliary honey powder sources, and the main and auxiliary honey powder sources should be properly matched; The site should be located on the hillside facing south, with abundant sunshine, the back mountain as the screen, natural shade on the top, south wind in summer and north wind in winter, fertile soil, vigorous growth of honey plants, long flowering period, sufficient water and convenient transportation.

Second, buy bees.

1. Purchase time: April-May is appropriate in the north. At this time, the bee colony is in the breeding period, the selection is relatively stable, and the external environment is good, so the feeding is easy to succeed.

2. Selection method: observing at the door of the nest, those worker bees who are diligent in going in and out and collecting a large proportion of pollen are generally lively and active groups. Then open the box to check, if the worker bees are quiet and not flustered, it means docile; As big as a queen bee. The feet are thick, the chest is high and wide, the abdomen is long and plump, the whole body is densely covered with fluff, and the eggs are flexible, fast and unhurried, indicating that the queen bee is young and strong, and her ability to lay eggs is strong.

3. arrangement of bees: it depends on the size of the site, the number of beekeeping and the season. There are four arrangements: single box arrangement, double box arrangement, staggered arrangement and three box arrangement.

Third, feeding

1, supplementary feeding: artificial feeding when honey sources are scarce. The methods are as follows: ① Supplement honey. Honey can be diluted by 20% with warm water (crystallized honey needs to be dissolved with a little water). Diluted honey can be fed to bees through spleen perfusion or inverted frame feeder. ② Supplementing syrup. Syrup is made by adding 50% water to white sugar, heating to dissolve it fully, and then cooling to a slight temperature. It is best to add 0. 1% citric acid to syrup to facilitate digestion and absorption. Brown sugar is not suitable at this time.

2. Reward feeding: artificial feeding during the breeding period and the production period of bees. Generally, a small amount of 60% honey solution or 50% syrup is given every other day 1 time in early spring, and then the dosage will increase to 1 time every day, starting from 40 days before the honey flow period until a large amount of honey powder is collected from the outside. Each bee can be rewarded with 50 ~100g syrup.

3. Pollen feeding: The purpose is to supplement the feed in protein. In late winter and early spring, the pollen preserved in the previous autumn can also be replaced by soybean powder. The feeding method is as follows:

(1) liquid feed. Add 10 times of syrup to the pollen, boil it, cool it and feed it in a feeder.

(2) cake feeding. Add the same amount of honey or syrup to the pollen or substitute pollen, stir evenly to make cakes, wrap them in plastic paper, and put them on a beam for bees to eat. This method is often used in cold current.

4. Add salt to water supply: ① water. Generally, each bee colony needs to collect 200 ~ 300ml of water every day. Fill the feeder with water or put a wet towel on the gauze cover to collect water by yourself. 2 salt. Add 1% salt to the syrup.

Fourth, management.

1. spring management: ① promote the flight and excretion of bees. When the temperature in the center of the nest rises to 33 ~ 35℃, there should be enough honey powder source or reward feeding, and the box cover should be opened and kept warm in time to make it fly out of the nest for excretion. (2) Honeycomb insulation. Artificial heat preservation must be adopted when entering the breeding period after excretion. Tighten the hive, dense group potential. Many groups are kept in the same box, and the inside and outside of the box are kept warm until April-May in the north.

2. Management of honey flow period: ① Early adjustment and organization of honey collection team. (2) Keep the strong group gathering honey. In order to control the queen bee from laying eggs, the queen bee can be confined to a section of the nest box or in the nest box with a queen partition. In order to break the seeds and collect honey, the queen bee and 1 ~ 2 spleen bees can be raised from the honey collecting group five days before the honey flowing period, and the mature queen bee platform can be attracted to the honey collecting group the next day, which can greatly improve the honey yield. Pay attention to small group management. For those vulnerable groups who can't collect honey, we should create conditions to promote the rapid development of group potential. On the premise of proper honey collection, breeding should be done well to supplement the population potential.

3. Autumn management: ① Cultivate new kings and replace old and inferior kings. ② Cultivate overwintering bees of appropriate age. Age-appropriate overwintering bees refer to young bees that emerge indoors before overwintering, fly only two or three times, do not feed and collect, and do not secrete royal jelly. In order to make the overwintering bees overwinter safely, it is necessary to control the young bees born after the honey production period to protect the population potential of Tan bees. The control method is to force the queen bee to stop laying eggs at some time during the honey flow period. (3) Early failure in time. In the later stage of cultivating overwintering bees, honey powder should be used to press the spleen, and honey should be poured for 2-3 times to stop the production of queen bees. At the same time, the bee colony should be moved to a cold place, and the bee path 1 times should be expanded, the pollen spleen should be lifted out of the hive, and the heat preservation materials should be withdrawn, so that the seeds can be broken early.

4. Winter management: ① adjust the nest door. The height of the nest door is 6 ~ 7 mm and the width is 60 ~ 70mm 2 to prevent honey from crystallizing. Strengthen heat preservation, or put some wet cotton balls into the box from the nest door to reduce ventilation. ③ Overwintering indoors in the north. When the water freezes and there is no snow on the ground, the beehive should be 20 cm away from the wall and 40 cm away from the ground on the first floor. Keep the room temperature at 0 ~ 2℃ and the humidity at 75 ~ 80%.