How Can Beekeeping Prevent The Queen From Escaping?

1. Security escape film

Anti-escape piece is used to install a beekeeping tool at the door of the beehive nest, according to the characteristics of the queen bee after the opening of the birth will be larger than the worker bee to design, in the beehive nest door after the installation of the anti-escape piece worker bees can enter freely, but the queen bee because of the size is too large to escape the hive, it is worth noting to install the corresponding bee species of anti-escape piece, such as the installation of the anti-escape piece of the bee at the door of the bee's nest is not effective.

2. The king of the cage

The king cage is used to imprison the queen bee in the bee colony a beekeeping tool, according to the queen bee after the opening of the body size will be larger than the worker bee to design, when the queen bee is imprisoned in the king cage when the queen bee can not come out, and the worker bee can enter the king cage through the fence of the king cage to take care of the queen bee, relative to the anti-escape film The use of the king cage will limit the queen to lay eggs, so the king cage is mostly used to introduce the king, merge the bee colony, etc.

3. The queen bee clips its wings

Cutting off the queen bee's wings is the most extreme way to prevent the queen from escaping, which refers to artificially making the queen lose the ability to fly to prevent the queen from escaping, although this method is practical, but only suitable for use in very emergency situations, because the lack of wings of the queen is not conducive to the long-term development of the bee colony, and this "rule" of the queen bee is very easy to be "overthrown" by the worker bee, and the new king should be intervened in time after the colony is stable.

4. Destroy the royal platform

One of the main reasons for the queen bee to escape is that the bee colony has naturally divided the bees, and the old queen bee will lead some worker bees to run out of the old nest to find another nest site, so beekeepers should regularly check the bee colony, and find that the queen bee platform should be destroyed in time, but destroying the queen bee platform is a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, which requires beekeepers to find the reasons for the bee colony, such as the aging of the queen, the swarm is too large, the beehive is too small, etc.