What should I pay attention to when I start beekeeping?
Beekeeping is a thorough technical work, but all beekeeping technology is carried out around the life habits of bees, just started beekeeping must be clear about the life habits of bees, so that in the management of bees can be handy, here's a look at what to pay attention to at the beginning of beekeeping!
1. Bee species
Bees are the general name of the genus of bees in the family of bees, especially the most common bees and bees, the advantages of bees are strong adaptability, good at using scattered honey sources, the disadvantages are easy to divide bees, easy to escape the group, low honey production, the advantages of bees are strong group, high honey production, weak bee division, the disadvantage is that the adaptability to the environment is not as good as the bees.
2. Bee gear
Beehives are the most basic tools for beekeeping, including beehives, beekeeping caps, king cages, king boards, honey rockers, honey cutters, bee sweepers, feeders, nest frames, nest bases, etc., especially beehives are the most important, and it is recommended to use live frame beehives as much as possible, because live frame beehives are more scientific in design and more convenient in management than traditional beehives.
3, The king
King is one of the necessary technologies for beekeeping, referring to the re-intervention of the new queen to the bee colony, such as the loss of the queen to intervene in time to the new queen, the change of the king must first deal with the old queen and then intervene in the new queen, because of different operations have direct king and indirect king two, the principle is to find a way to confuse the smell of the new queen and the colony.
4. Group together.
Merging is one of the necessary techniques for beekeeping, which refers to the merger of two or more bee colonies into a colony, such as the loss of a bee colony and no separate group value can be merged into other colonies with a king, or two weak colonies can be merged into a strong production group, a strong group of honey is much higher than the two weak groups.
5. Nurture the king
Royal breeding is one of the necessary technologies for beekeeping, which refers to the artificial selection or cultivation of high-quality queen bees, because the quality of the bee colony largely depends on the quality of the queen bee, and high-quality queen bees are the necessary prerequisite for high yield in beekeeping. Small and medium-sized apiaries can manually select the queen bee, while large-scale apiaries must artificially cultivate the queen bee.
6. Prevent disease
Disease prevention is one of the necessary technologies for beekeeping. Once the outbreak of bee disease is mild, the swarm will be affected, and serious, it will spread to all bees, and even easily destroy a large beekeeping farm. Many novice beekeeping failures are caused by the failure to control diseases and pests, such as the nest insects of bees and bee mites of bees.