Honeycomb relationship
The spleen (frame) is a commonly used unit of bee quantity for beekeepers. The number of a spleen is about 2500 to 3000. There are three main relationships between bees and spleens. One is that there are more bees than the spleen. The third is that there are fewer bees than spleens. The healthiest relationship is that there are more bees than spleens. If the conditions are suitable, it can be appropriately relaxed to be commensurate with the spleen. Any time the bee colony is less than the spleen for a long time, the colony will inevitably collapse.
2. Reproductive efficiency
The reproductive efficiency of bees in the spring breeding period is divided into two stages. The first stage is the early spring breeding period. At this stage, almost all overwintering worker bees are in the bee colony. One overwintering worker bee can only breed 1.12 offspring. The second stage is the middle and late spring breeding. At this time, the overwintering worker bees have almost been replaced by new worker bees. A new worker bee can breed 3.85 offspring. In fact, this stage is the high-speed reproduction period of the bee colony.
3.Spleen addition time
The reproductive efficiency of the bee colony in the early spring reproduction is about -1%, which means that the rate of new worker bees leaving the house is lower than the mortality rate of overwintering bees. 2.4%. In fact, it takes 40 days for a spleen to be stable and enter the high-speed breeding period. At this time, it is necessary to add spleen to the bee colony in time according to the conditions of the colony, weather, and nectar source.
