How long does it take for bees to recognize their direction after the transition?

For more than 20 days, several weak groups will be temporarily preserved in the old site to collect bees flying back to the new site. After 3-4 days of collection, it is moved to a place 5 kilometers away from the old site and the new site, preserved for more than 20 days, and then moved to the new site.

You can also use the indirect moving method. First, move the bees to a place 5 kilometers away from the old address and the new address, and keep them for more than 20 days before moving to the new address.

Because when bees leave the nest for flight test, they will locate the hive. If the location is successful, the bee will remember its nest door and return to the nest smoothly. If the transition bees come to unfamiliar places, they will also relocate their hives. At this time, the previously located honeycomb position will be superimposed and eliminated, and only the newly located honeycomb position will be remembered. So bees don't have to worry about the transition, they will remember the original hive position and don't know the new hive position. Therefore, even if a beekeeper runs for hundreds or thousands of miles with bees, he will not lose all the bees.

As long as the hive is moved 6 kilometers away, as long as it moves with the hive, the bees can locate the position when they leave the hive, and the previous hive position will be forgotten. If the moving distance is too close, under 6 kilometers, the bees will not locate, but will remember the original position, and there will be a phenomenon of returning bees. If you move far away and no bees return, if you move backward, the swarm will not look for its original position.

It is not recommended to turn bees in winter. In fact, the reason is very simple. The reason is that bees are not hibernating insects. Even if the outside temperature is very low, bees will not hibernate, but stay together in groups for the winter. The colder the weather, the tighter the bees stay and the more they eat. Therefore, in winter, bees should be prepared with a lot of food to avoid being hungry in winter. It can be said that the heat preservation of bees in winter is a key point, and the basis of this key point is that there is enough food in the bee colony.

Bees not only have enough food, but also rely on a single bee to eat in winter to increase metabolism and generate heat, and then a large number of bees gather together to generate a lot of heat to keep the high temperature in the bee colony. That is to say, gathering together in groups to generate heat is a necessary means for bees to keep the temperature of the bee colony constant in winter, and when we transport bees, bees may be dispersed due to vibration and temperature changes. It is difficult for a single bee to keep a constant temperature, which leads to the destruction of the internal constant temperature of the bee colony, and the ability of a single bee to tolerate low temperature is not strong. Finally, the phenomenon of bee freezing to death may seriously lead to the destruction of the bee colony.