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Feeding sugar cane feed is the most important feed for bee colonies. The lack of sugar canes in bee colonies not only affects the normal development of bee colonies, but also makes it difficult for bee colonies to survive. The sugar feeds used to feed the bees mainly consist of honey and sucrose. syrup. According to the condition of the colony and the goal of bee colony management, there are two ways to feed the bee sugar feed. One is the aided feeding and the other is the rewarding feeding.
Supplemental Feeding Aid feeding is a season in which honey is lacking, and a large amount of honey or syrup is fed to a population that lacks honey to maintain a normal life. In the early spring, when the spleen is tightened (reduction of bees and honeycombs), heat preservation and initiation of breeding, before the winter of the bees in autumn and winter, during the honey-breaking period, before the transfer of the bees and because of other reasons such as stealing bees, the lack of stored honey in the nest etc. Next, the bee colony must be fed.
It is most ideal for the honey and spleen to be fed with high quality and mature to the bees. Supplementing the spleen is generally to insert the spleen into the side spleen or the side spleen. In autumn and winter, in order to make the bee colony early, the honey spleen can be inserted in the center of the hive when the temperature is about to drop to 10°C. However, in the early spring breeding season or the winter bee grouping, the spleen can not be so cut in order to avoid children. The spleen is frozen, or the honeybee is divided into two halves by honey spleen and affects wintering. In order to supplement the spleen in the low temperature season, honey spleen must be heated in the room to 25°C~30°C. In addition to the bees in winter, before the honey spleen is added to the bee colonies in the rest of the season, the honey spleen can be cut first and then sprayed with a little hot water so that the bees can feed. If the honey crystallizes in the spleen, The crystallized honey spleen is placed in the box, 8 spleens are placed at equal intervals in each box, placed in a room maintained at about 35° C., and melted within 3 days to 4 days. At this time, honey spleen can be covered with honey. Cut open, spray warm water to join the swarm.
No honey spleen can use honey or sucrose syrup to feed the bees, high-quality mature honey 3 to 4 or high-quality sugar 2 copies, 1 to the water, to Wenhuo open, after leaving cool to feed the bees in the evening. The amount of subsidy feeding is limited to the acceptability of the bee colony, that is, how much the bee colony can receive at one time, generally 0.7 kg to 1 kg, and should be continuously fed until the supplement is completed. However, it should be noted that the time for subsidy feeding should not be dragged too long to avoid the effect of reward feeding on an objective basis. The method of subsidy feeding is to put a large-capacity feeder (such as a box feeder) that feeds sugar feed into a beehive to allow the bees to be taken, or to use a method of feeding spleen to subsidize feeding. Insert warm syrup or honey, twitch up and down, or use a finger or brush to brush the mouth of the nest, so that the syrup or honey juice poured into the hole in the nest room. After filling, put the nest spleen, placed in the basin On the top of the box, join the bees in the evening after the honey syrup sticking to the surface of the nest is dripped. If there is no honey spleen reserve, it can be concentrated on the strong group first, and then the strong group of honey spleen can be extracted to supply the weak group.
Reward feeding is intended to stimulate spawning by queen bees, worker bees to suffocate larvae, speed up spleen build-up, promote enthusiasm for bee colony acquisition, and merging bee colonies and attracting queens before stabilizing the colony’s disposition, regardless of bees’ nests Whether or not they are adequate, they are fed a certain amount of sugar bees in the colony. This method of feeding the colony is rewarded with feeding. The amount of rewarded feeding was stored in the nest without storing the queen bees for oviposition. In general, Italian bees are fed 0.2 kg to 0.5 kg per group per day, 0.1 kg to 0.3 kg of bees, and honeybees with insufficient honey storage in nests can be appropriately increased in the amount of sugar feed for rewards and feeding. In order to make the bees long-lastingly excited and enhance the effect, reward feeding should be carried out continuously every night without interruption without reason. The method of rewarding feeding is also mainly feeding or spleen. The temperature is suitable, and the population of the colony is strong. It can also be rewarded and fed outside the box.
Regardless of whether it is a supplementary feeding or a reward feeding, precautions should be taken to prevent the occurrence of the theft of the bee. When feeding, sugar can not be dropped out of the box, especially when the spleen is being fed, the syrup or honey juice cannot fall into the nest box too much. In order to avoid escaping from the entrance of the nest, in case of careless operation, the sugar feed dripping in the nest box is too much and there is a possibility that it may flow out of the box, and the front of the beehive may be temporarily elevated. After feeding, carefully inspect and rinse with water or bury the syrup or honey dripping around the apiary with soil. Feeding colonies should generally be done in the evening. In the early morning of the next morning, before the bees are active, the feed feeders that have not been sucked by the colonies are taken out and sealed. In addition, when the spleen is ingested, care should be taken not to infuse syrup or honey syrup into the ovary nests so as not to drown the developing ovary.
Bee-eaters have strict requirements for overwintering feeds. It is best to use high-quality mature honey to feed the bees, followed by high-quality sugar syrup. For feeding bees with syrup, 0.1% tartaric acid or an appropriate amount of acid juice may be added to the syrup to facilitate conversion of the sucrose therein, or 0.1% to 0.2% sucrose invertase may be added to the slightly hot syrup.
Feeding protein feed pollen is the only source of protein in bee colony natural foods. Although adult worker bees can maintain their lives without pollen and only honey, the development of larvae and the growth of larvae are separated from the non-flowering powder. Pollen collection by bee colony is mainly used to modulate bee larvae. It was determined that 10,000 larvae used by bee colonies consumed 1.2-1.5 kg of bee-food. Insufficient powder sources outside the home will result in reduced spawning and larval development, severely affecting the development of bee populations; in addition, it will cause premature aging of bees and the ability to secrete royal jelly and beeswax. Therefore, during the colony season, if In the absence of powder sources outside the country, bees must be supplemented with pollen or other protein feeds.
The protein feed fed to the colonies is ideally reserved for pollen spleen, followed by dried pollen clusters. If there are no reserves of powdered spleen and dried pollen groups, they have to feed pollen substitutes. Currently, there are many substitutes for pollen, such as yeast powder, defatted soy flour, and pea flour, all of which are high-protein, low-fat foods. Substitutes are mainly formulated based on the nutrients of natural pollen. If it is to supplement the pollen spleen, it is added directly to the outside of the spleen in the colony. Bee pollen or substitutes are soaked in honey or syrup, mixed into a dough, and then smashed into strips and placed on the frame beam to feed the colony. In order to prevent the dried pollen cake, plastic paper can be placed over the pollen cake.
Water is an indispensable substance for bees to maintain their life activities. The various metabolic functions of honeybees are inseparable from water. Decomposition, absorption, transportation and use of the waste left after the use of bees are excreted from the body. The role of water. In addition, the bees also use water to regulate the temperature and humidity inside the hive. In the breeding season, especially in the midsummer, the water requirement is quite amazing. A medium bee colony at the breeding stage consumes about 250 ml of water per day. When bee colonies do not pick nectar from the outside, there are many bees flying to pools or wet soil surfaces to collect water. If a bee flies out of the water in a strong wind or cold weather, it will cause a great deal of death. If water is collected from an unclean source, bee disease can also be easily caused. Therefore, bee colonies should be constantly fed with clean water from early spring until autumn. The method of feeding water is to provide an automatic water feeder or a basin with sand and stones for the bees to fly to the water in the apiary. In the early spring and late autumn, the bee can be taken to prevent the cold water from flying out. The method of feeding water through the door is to fill the water with a small plastic bag, draw a cotton yarn from the mouth of the bag, tie the bag mouth, place it on the pedal, or fill it with a glass bottle and put it in clean water. The door is stepped on and a cotton band is drawn from the bottle to allow the bees to absorb water on the wet cotton band.
Salt-fed inorganic salt is an indispensable substance that constitutes and renews body tissues, promotes healthy physiological functions, and helps digestion. If a bee colony fed syrup lacks the necessary amount of inorganic salt, the bees will go to the toilet urinal and collect urine and sweat on the person's skin. Feeding salt bees can be combined with feeding water, adding 5% coarse sea salt in the clean water, or placing salt bags on the feeder's watering board, or combining salt and feeding syrups, ie at 60% For the concentration of syrup, 500 mg of dipotassium hydrogen phosphate or 725 mg of magnesium sulfate per liter, or 500 mg of crude sea salt was added.
Several feeding methods for bee colonies
Bee feed is necessary to maintain the normal life activities and development of bees. Due to the interruption of the external powder source, or artificially excessively taking honey, the storage of the feed in the honeycomb is insufficient, which will affect the survival and development of the bee colony. In this case, it is necessary to feed the colony. In addition, bees must be fed when certain special management measures need to be applied to the colony. The feeding of bee colonies is a very important means for bee colony management. The proper method of feeding the bees, feeding time, and the quality and quantity of feeds will have a great influence on the bee colony. The main purpose of beekeeping is to pollinate, get honey, produce pulp and obtain other bee products. To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the bee colony must be strong, and bee colony feeding is to maintain and develop the bee colony. An important measure taken.