How do bees spend summer safely?

Bees are difficult to feed in summer, so there must be corresponding methods and skills to raise bees in summer. Let's take a look at the methods I carefully recommend to make bees spend the summer safely, hoping to help you.

Methods for bees to spend summer safely

Be fully prepared before the bees spend the summer.

1. What should bees bring to collect honey before summer? Take less and stay more? At this time, taking a lot of honey is a taboo for beekeeping.

2. Choose a quiet and comfortable environment to let the bees escape the heat. You need to move the bees to a quiet and comfortable environment, which will not only make the bees consume less feed, but also make the life span of the bees much longer than that of busy and noisy places. In sparsely populated remote places, such as seaside, mangrove riverside, deep coconut grove, mountain dense forest, etc., there are many auxiliary honey sources to bloom, spit powder and secrete honey, and the environment is very quiet, which is the best place for bee colonies.

Create the most suitable living environment for bees.

1, build a shed to shade the sun. In hot summer, don't put the hive in the scorching sun to avoid direct sunlight. Therefore, the beehive should be placed under an empty tree, and a sunshade net should be built on the scaffold. Both sides of the bee farm (hive) should be strictly shielded from the sun, creating a dark environment, and controlling worker bees to fly out of the nest, consuming physical strength and affecting their life.

2, drenching water to prevent heatstroke and cool down, the outdoor temperature is high, hot air attacks bees, and the nest is sultry. Bees disperse automatically through self-regulation, strengthen the fan activity in the nest and the door of the nest, and promote the evaporation of water in the nest, thus reducing humidity and cooling down. The physical strength consumed by constant fan is almost equal to constant flight, which will shorten the life span, so beekeepers should do a good job of sprinkling water to prevent heatstroke and cool down. It is also necessary to wet the cover cloth on the gauze cover of the nest box with clear water at 8 o'clock every morning to increase the humidity and reduce the nest temperature; Sprinkle water on the bee farm in the morning and evening to reduce the heat of geothermal radiation; In the afternoon, spray water to the hive with a sprayer that has not been sprayed with pesticides to reduce the temperature outside the hive. In order to make the air convection in the nest box and reduce the sultry inside the box, the transom should be opened at night.

In hot summer with enough salt, bees need water. According to many records, a worker bee can only collect 60mg of water at a time, and a strong bee colony needs about lk90 water every day in dry and hot weather. According to this calculation, worker bees need to collect lkg water 17000 ~20000 times, which shows that worker bees consume considerable physical strength when collecting water, so they should choose bee farm. If it is not enough, use artificial water feeding. A drinking fountain is placed in every 6 groups in the bee farm, and a sink is placed in the nest, and fresh water is added (changed) every 2 days. Salt is an indispensable substance for bee metabolism. Adding 0.5% fine salt to the water feeder and sink can reduce the physical strength consumed by bees in collecting water.

4, pay attention to the late summer supplementary feeding into the summer, generally can't feed the bee colony, because feeding will stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs and worker bees out of the nest, affecting the bee colony charging. But at the end of summer, we should pay attention to the feed changes in the nest. If you find that there is a phenomenon of driving away drones and dragging children in front of the nest, you should hold up the back of the nest box with your hands, which feels very light, indicating that there is little honey in the nest and you should replenish it in time. In order to prevent worker bees from flying around in the air and stealing bees, it is necessary to pour 2: 1 thick syrup into the feeding trough of the nest box in the evening after the bees stop their activities, and the quantity is subject to the consumption that night until there is a certain amount of capped honey to ensure that the bees have enough nutrition.

5. To control flying bees, why do they fly in summer? First, strong light stimulation; Second, the temperature is too high and the nest is stuffy; The third is the reason for the excitement after feeding. Air flight consumes a lot of physical strength and feed, which accelerates the aging of worker bees and shortens their life span. In order to prolong the life of the bee colony, we should aim at the above three points, such as shading, increasing the nest door, expanding the bee path and reducing the nest temperature; Generally do not feed in early summer and midsummer (if honey is seriously insufficient, it should be done at night), so as to control empty flight.

Pest control is an effective guarantee to prolong the life of summer bees.

In summer, enemies are numerous and rampant, which is very harmful to bees. There are wasps, dragonflies, swallows, ants and spiders during the day. At night, people face moths, toads and geckos; There are bee mites, nest worms and cockroaches in the nest, so we should pay attention to prevention and control. In addition, attention should also be paid to bee pesticide poisoning to ensure that bee colonies can prolong their life during the summer vacation.

Breeding skills of bees in summer

1. Adjust the population potential. As far as possible, adjust the bee colony to the colony potential of strong colony 6~7 and general colony 7~ 14. Because the group potential is too strong, when there is no honey source, it will increase consumption; The population potential is too weak, and it is difficult to restore the strong population under the unfavorable environment, which is not conducive to autumn production.

2. Tightening the nest spleen The queen bee likes to lay eggs and breed insects on the newly built nest spleen. At the same time, the newly built nest spleen is not easy to be harmed by nest spleen worms, which can reduce the insect pests of ovulating pupae. However, it should be noted that the old spleen and the redundant nest spleen in the box should be taken out in time to make the bee spleen commensurate, so as to avoid increasing the burden of bees to protect the nest spleen due to lack of spleen.

3. Summer heatstroke prevention and cooling, beehives must not be placed in the sun, and bees must be arranged under tall broad-leaved trees. If there is no shade around, you must build a arbor, enlarge the door of the nest, and put an empty box in the beehive to expand the space and circulate the air to prevent high temperature and sultry weather. At the same time, you can put a water dispenser or drinking nest spleen in the relay box, which can reduce the temperature and let bees drink freely. You can also sprinkle water around the hive to cool down.

4. Prevention of poisoning Frequent use of pesticides in farmland in summer should control bees from leaving their nests to prevent them from being harmed by pesticides. If the bee colony is found to be poisoned, the poisonous feed on the nest spleen should be removed immediately, and then the diluted honey solution of honey and water 1:4 should be fed. If the bee colony is poisoned by organophosphorus pesticides, it should be treated with atropine. 2mL 1% atropine sulfate was added to 0.3kg honey water and sprayed directly on bees to make them suck each other to achieve the purpose of detoxification.

5. Drive away the enemy. In summer, bees are more harmful. Wasps and wasps often kill bees in front of their nests. Ants also steal honey. Toads also hide under the nest box at night to collect honey. In order to avoid the invasion of enemies, it is best to install a rectangular iron sand net cover in front of the nest, and leave a few small holes on it to facilitate the bees to enter and leave, so as to avoid all kinds of enemies and prevent bees from stealing food.

6. Prevention and control of bee mites in summer, which is rampant, is the enemy of bee safety in summer. If it is not stopped in time, the swarm will be weakened and the whole army will be wiped out. Control method: Spray 1: 150 insecticidal and acaricidal liquid with a micro sprayer in windless morning or evening.

7. When the honey source is insufficient or interrupted in summer, bees steal honey from time to time. So leave enough honey as summer feed in summer. If honey is insufficient, it can be replaced by white sugar water or fed with artificial mixed feed.

8. Reduce the hot weather in summer, check the bees as little as possible to avoid disturbing the bees and even causing the bees to be stolen. If you have to check, you should take action quickly. If the bee colony is found to be too weak or lost, it should be merged in time.

Matters needing attention in bee breeding in summer

1, control the temperature and water supply of the hive.

In summer, people should put beehives in cool places and places with plenty of water. If there is no shade, you can also build a shed for the hive and put a good water source near the door of the hive. If the weather is too hot at noon, spray water into the hive to keep the temperature in the hive normal.

2. Organize honey collection in time.

Summer is the peak time for bees to collect honey, and at this time, there are also requirements for the number of bees in the strong honey-collecting group, for example, the number of bees in the group should not be less than 20 frames. If it is less, farmers need to make up in time. We can unite the vulnerable groups, or supplement the vulnerable groups to the strong groups to meet the needs of the strong groups in honey gathering.

3. Prevent the occurrence of bee fever.

Summer is the high season of bee craze. If it is not properly managed here, there will be a phenomenon of bee separation. In order to avoid this situation, we should always check the beehives. If you find a covered queen bee platform or a queen bee that has stopped spawning, you should be vigilant. This is an early phenomenon of bee separation, which needs to be dealt with in time, otherwise the strength of bee colony will be weakened and the output of bee products will be affected.