How do wasps spend the winter

In winter, female bees leave their nests to find shelter, such as cracks in the wall and haystacks, to gather a group of bees for the winter. The lower the temperature, the closer the group will be. When the temperature is a little higher, the group becomes loose. When the temperature is higher than 7℃, the population will begin to disintegrate.

In spring, when the temperature is higher than 7℃, the overwintering bees begin to spread out and look for their nesting sites. At this time, overwintering females are responsible for building hives, obtaining food and feeding larvae. After the first generation of bees emerged, the females were responsible for breeding offspring, and a few individuals in the second generation of emerging females mated with the males and laid eggs.

There are queen bees, professional bees and drones in the wasp colony. The queen bee is a female who has mated and fertilized with a drone after the previous autumn. The drone dies shortly after mating, and the female stores sperm in the seminal vesicle.

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Feeding and management

In the first ten days of March of the following year, the temperature rose above 65438 00℃, and the overwintering bees began to disperse and move on the cage wall. At this time, apples, molasses, sugar bags and other feeds should be put into artificial feeding immediately until mid-April, and after the bees in the cage flap their wings for a period of time, they can come out of the cage and return to natural nesting.

Artificial assisted nesting is to build a bee shed under natural conditions. When the spring temperature is constant at 65438 03℃, the overwintering wasps begin to disperse. They can move into the greenhouse at night, gently open the cage door or lid, and the wasps will fly in the shed in the future.

When the temperature is constant above 17℃, bees begin to nest and lay eggs, which should be observed at any time. When they see bees flying around and stopping on the top of the shed and the gauze around it, they should hang them everywhere in the shed in time, and the cage should be half open and half tied.