How to change the king of a box of bees?

The beekeepers and pomelo growers in Shifan Town, Meizhou County, Guangdong Province, are here to answer your questions: How to change the queen in a box of bees?

In the process of beekeeping, we often need to replace the old and inferior queens, some of them are replaced once a year (before the beginning of spring breeding), some of them are replaced twice a year (before the beginning of spring breeding and the beginning of fall breeding), and the longest time we need to change the queens is once in two years. Sometimes there are problems such as loss of queen, artificial separation of bees, diseases, etc., and it is also necessary to change the queen and induce new queens. Therefore, the operation of queen replacement is one of the basic techniques that every beekeeper should master. The most commonly used methods for changing the queen and inducing new queens are direct induction and indirect induction.

I. Direct Induction

(1) If there is enough honey in the outside world, the bee colony has lost its king soon, the larvae of all ages are normal, the young bees are many and the old bees are few, the queenless colony and the queens to be replaced should be sprayed with some honey or sugar water in the evening, and the queens should be checked whether there is any emergency king-making table before the inductions, and if there is any, the queens should be destroyed first, and the queens to be replaced should be released from the cage and directly put on the beam of the frame, so the queens will climb into the colony by themselves. Let the queen climb into the colony by herself. Check the situation the next day. In the case of sufficient external nectar supply and a colony that has lost its queen not long ago, the mesophilic bees are very receptive to new queens, so the success rate of direct entrapment is very high.

(2) In the evening, put the queen bee together with one splencher with bees from the cross-tailed box directly outside the queenless swarm at a distance of 1 frame to 2 frames from the divider, and spray some sugar water. 1-2 days later, mention it in the divider and merge it into one swarm.

2. Indirect Induction Method

If the colony has lost the queen for a long time and the outside honey source is lacking or insufficient, you can't use the direct induction method, and you have to use the queen inducer to indirectly replace the queen into the colony for safety reasons. A few days before the queen replacement, feed the bees and check the condition of the hive. If there are more old bees and fewer new bees in the hive, one or two cot spleens should be replenished. If there is a king platform to remove all, and then use a cage to fasten the queen to be seduced, together with a few young bees, on the hive spleen where there is honey, powder and empty hive room. The queen baiting cage should be fastened securely. After

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days for inspection, if found that many worker bees are tightly surrounding the outside and attempting to drill into the cage, it means that the queen has not been accepted by the worker bees, then the colony should be inspected in detail to see if there is any uncleared queen platform or out of a new queen. After checking and treating, withhold for another 1-2 days. If the worker bees surrounding the outside of the queen baiting cage have dispersed, or begin to feed the queens, it means that they have been accepted and the queens can be released

The two methods mentioned above are the most commonly used methods of replacing the queens in the process of beekeeping.

The above is my opinion and insight on the question of "how to change the queen in a box of bees", and the answer I gave is based on my own beekeeping experience and knowledge of beekeeping over the years. I hope my answer can help you.

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