Beekeeping technology

Essential techniques for beekeeping include bee collecting technique, bee splitting technique, swarming technique, king-raising technique, king-breeding technique, etc.

1.

1, bee collecting technology

Bee collecting is one of the essential beekeeping techniques, which is often used in beekeeping production, especially when developing bee breeding, which is even more important. As a matter of fact, many people start beekeeping by collecting wild swarms of bees, and most of the wild swarms of bees build their nests in the tree holes, stone holes and other hidden places. This requires the beekeeper to be able to harvest them back, and also requires the beekeeper to be able to retrieve the separated swarms when the swarms are naturally separated.

2. Bee-splitting technology

Splitting bees is a way of expanding the number of bee populations, which can be roughly divided into two types: natural and artificial bee-splitting; small-scale beekeeping is usually to let the bee colony split naturally, while artificial bee-splitting is used in Italian beekeeping and large-scale beekeeping. In the case of artificial bee-splitting, the beekeeper needs to know the approximate time of bee-splitting so that the swarm can be collected in time.

3, swarming technology

Swarming refers to the combination of two or more swarms into one swarm, which is needed in many cases in beekeeping production, for example, when a swarm of bees is too weak, it can be merged into other relatively weak swarms through swarming to get a stronger swarm, and also in the formation of a double-queen swarm can be realized through swarming, and then when a swarm of bees loses a queen or a king, there is no new queen or a new queen for the time being. If a colony has lost its queen, and there is no new queen or queens available, it can be incorporated into a colony with a queen.

4. King-mediating technology

King-mediating refers to the introduction of a new king for a queenless colony. The queen bee is the main reproducer of the colony and is crucial to the development of the colony. Although the queen bee is often under the key protection of the beekeepers in the production of the bees, the loss of the king by accident is still inevitable. At the same time, when the apiary introduces other queens, it also needs to use the queen-mediator technique to introduce them to the colony.

5. King-breeding technology

King-breeding refers to the artificial cultivation of new queens in beekeeping production, and the quality of queens determines the development of the bee colony to a large extent, so apiaries of a certain scale usually replace queens on a regular basis, and at this time, it is necessary to cultivate a large number of queens through the artificial king-breeding technology. The bee breeder can also be used for directional selection in beekeeping production to retain bee breeds with excellent genetic characteristics and eliminate those with such and such defects.