One year's plan for bee management lies in autumn

It is often said that the one-year plan is in the spring. However, in our beekeeping industry in the north, we have to say that one year’s plan lies in autumn. Autumn is the beginning of the bee-keeping year. Because autumn bee colony management is an important part of whether the bee colony can overwinter, it is also the basis for spring bee colony restoration, and it is a golden period for pest control. According to our experience, bee colonies must do the following tasks:

First, the cultivation of egg plus winter bees

The bees that have emerged in the late autumn and excreted, but have not yet participated in the collection activities, are the winter-aged, age-appropriate bees, which not only maintain their physiological youth but also tolerate long-term trapped lives in the nest during wintering. The more bee-bearing bees, the safer the wintering period, so during the last honey-bee period, overwintering-aged bees should be vigorously cultivated.

1. Replace the queen bee in time. The ovulation period of an old bee queen is later than that of the second age bee queen, and the amount of eggs laid is large. The bee colony is full of spleen. Therefore, in the last honey period of the autumn, the old and bad bees should be promptly replaced, and the new spawning queen bee should be fully utilized for cultivation. Winter-aged bee.

2. Expand the production circle. It is necessary to promptly take out the capping honey from the compressed egg production ring, adjust the number of spleen and honey spleen, and expand the spawning circle to cultivate more bees.

3. Reward feeding. Even if it is still in the flow of honey, reward feeding must be carried out to promote the active spawning of queen bees. One can use two parts of mature honey or one part of white sugar, modulate one part of purified water, feed 0.5 to 1 kg per group per day, and feed it at least once a day to store honey without compressing eggs. Reward feeding should be conducted at night to prevent theft.

4. Appropriate dense cluster potential. After the end of the flow of honey, with the reduction of bees, the extra spleen should be removed in time to keep the bees and spleen proportionate (one foot frame bee put a nest of spleen).

5. Properly keep warm. The temperature difference between day and night in autumn is very large. To prevent the nighttime temperature from being too low and affect the spawning, the insulation can be added on the sub cover and at the bottom of the nest box. The cover is best covered with dry grass. The nest doors should be properly reduced in the morning and evening, and enlarged at noon. To regulate nest temperature.

Second, timely break (force the queen bee to stop spawning)

When the area of ​​the sub-spleen begins to shrink, the rewards and feeding are stopped. When the spleen is closed, the forced queen stops spawning, and the only small amount of eggs are treated with syrup, which saves the strength of the bees and reduces the number of bees. The storage of honey consumption can also avoid the young bees in the bee colony that cannot be discharged too quickly. The method of forcing the queen bee to stop spawning is to remove the insulation, expand the bee to 15-20 mm, lower the temperature in the nest, or feed the bee colony with plenty of syrup, press the spleen with honey to promote the broken child, or use the spleen and bee king cage. The queen of bees went up in prison and forced to break.

Third, keep a good winter feed

Adequate and high-quality feed is an important condition for bees to safely pass winter. In general, each bees should leave a box of honey spleen. Methods as below:

1. In the last major flow of honey, when the first time to take honey, each group of bees to choose to leave 4 to 5 frame honey spleen, placed on the outside of the nest spleen, and widen the bee, so that the honey cover. If the honey spleen selected for honey is not enough for the first time, the honey should be preserved after the second time the honey is taken and the spleen covered.

2. For bee colonies with inadequate feed reserves in the autumn, after the queen bee stops spawning or lays down eggs, subsidy feeding is performed. Feeding time is not the same in different regions. In Beijing and Taihang Mountains, it is advisable to feed enough food before and after cold dew. Feeding time should not be too long and the food should be fed within a maximum of three or four days.

Fourth, do a good job of pest control work

1. Beeswax is one of the major diseases affecting China's apiculture. The key to improving the therapeutic effect is to seize the favorable period of no sporadium closure or spleen closure in the late autumn bee colony. Commonly used sulphur powder smoke method: can remove the nested spleen into the air box, and then will be stacked 2-3 boxes, add an empty nest box below, surrounded with paper paste strict, with the right amount of sulfur powder Lighting fumes, once for more than 3 minutes, can be smoked again every 5 days. Pay attention to whether the spleen is mature or not and prevent larva poisoning.

2. When storing wintering feed, special drugs for controlling larval diseases and sporozoites, such as antibiotics, sulfonamides and fumagillin, are added. If the virus is used, less than 1 tablet per bee can be transferred to syrup to feed bees. This has a great effect on the smooth development of bee colonies in the coming spring.

In addition, we must pay attention to shelter against wind and ventilation in the nest. At the end of the fall, sometimes the temperature rises under the sun, which will stimulate the bees to nest. Therefore, attention should be paid to the change of temperature at any time. When the temperature rises, shady measures should be taken to prevent it from being released. Because the end of autumn is due to the end of the honey, it is not only futile for the bees to work, but also adverse to the health of the next spring and the increase in production.

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