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How to breed a queen bee (

1. Time and conditions: Warm weather and stable climate. During the queen bee mating period, the daytime temperature should be above 20°C, and continuous rainy weather should be avoided.

2. During the period of raising a king, there must be a good source of honey powder in nature, and sufficient powder source is more important. Each evening, breeding bees and breeding kings are rewarded and continually fed.

3. Before artificial breeding, the following preparations need to be done carefully: Select parent bees: Through investigation, select healthy and disease-free bees whose honey or royal jelly production exceeds the average production of the entire field. The ability to separate bees is weak. Bee colonies develop quickly.

4. Use the mother colony to breed drone bees, and use the mother colony larvae to breed the queen bee. The quantity and quality of breeding drones are directly related to the mating success rate of queen bees in various places, as well as the fertilization effect, thus affecting the quality of offspring colonies.

5. Prepare to breed the King Colony. A breeding queen colony is a strong colony that feeds the larvae and pupae of the queen bee. A colony with no disease, no varroa mites, high colony potential, and at least 15 bees should be selected as the breeding colony.

6. Tools for killing insects and breeding kings. Tools for removing insects and breeding kings include insect-killing needles, king-raising racks, wax bowls, etc. The worm needle is a tool used to transplant small larvae into the king's bowl. It can be made of thick copper wire or goose quill, with a flat thin tongue at one end and a curved spoon at the other end. The spring-loaded deworming needle is easy to use.

7. Insect migration method: The insect migration king can cultivate the required number of queen ants of the same maturity in a planned manner. First, stick 2~3 layers of nest foundation strips or small triangular thin iron sheets with melted wax at equal distances on the slats of the king frame, and stick 7~10 wax bowls on them, 3 wax bowls ***20~30 indivual.