Tips For Protecting Bees In Winter

Tips for protecting bees in winter

The "Lidong" season is severely cold, and the bee colony disappears naturally. The nest door is dark and will not harm the heat. There is enough water to sleep.

1. Choosing the opportunity to merge: The time to merge groups varies from year to year due to climatic conditions. Fixed time is very inconvenient. Only when the minimum temperature is stable below 5°C and the maximum temperature is stable around 15°C, the colonies will be in a state of aggregation, without wind and sunny days. This is a good opportunity to start from 10 am to 2 pm. Usually near "Xiaoxue".

2. Combination criteria: There are 8-9 large honey spleens in the combined nest box, the honeycomb is full of nest boxes, about 3.5 kg of bees, it can be an independent overwintering group two in one or three in one, and for non-independent All-in-one function of overwintering group.

3. Queen bee treatment: in the middle of the bee path, there are multiple king cages hanging at the front 1/3 and upper 1/3.

4. Parallel operation: insert your fingers into the spleen, lift up three spleens at a time, put the remaining spleen on the box of the parallel group, push the attached bees away with a single soft branch, and then lift the spleen to store as little as possible to clean the bees The bees are more irritating and disturbing the worker bees). Landed bees that have not returned to the nest before evening pick them up and put them in the container, and then put them back in the box.

5. Management after merging: add an empty relay box in the nesting box. When the minimum temperature is higher than 0°C, the bee colony will be exposed and free to expand upward. When it is lower than 0℃, it will be covered, when it is below -5℃, it will be added. Cotton pad, but you must fold a corner at any time and place a sponge that absorbs enough moisture on the sponge.

6. Anti-insect: winter insects usually sneak into the beehive in winter, bee-eaters throw shells (rats bite the spleen without eating bees), and use single-walled king cages (the bamboo wire is removed from one side of the king's cage) and nailed to the nest The door is preventable.

7. Anti-air flight: In winter, on sunny and warm days, check the apiary frequently to find out the problems of air flight caused by heat injury, sunlight, lack of water, lack of feed, etc., and solve them. timely.