Notes on summer beekeeping

Shade, ventilation, and water supply The beehive should be placed in a shaded and watered place, or take a arbor and place a drinking fountain near the nest door. On a hot noon, spray a proper amount of water on the beehive and the site to reduce the nest temperature. Enlarging the bee road and the nest door to enhance ventilation and heat dissipation, and also to prevent rain. When organizing the honey gathering group is generally entering the main nectar collection period, it is required that the strong group bees reach 20 boxes or more. We can adopt a combination of weak groups and weak reinforcement methods to flexibly organize honey collecting groups. It is very important to manage the intensive honey-collection management group during the honey collection period. This period is to encourage bees to collect honey, the hive must continue to expand, and do not limit the bees lay eggs. Subsequent increase in the box and empty spleen, so that the bee colony has a larger space for development, there is enough honey, spawning spleen, so that it can not only collect a large amount of honey, production of bee milk, but also to develop a certain group potential. Attention to eliminate the heat of the bees is not good management during this period, prone to bee separation. To inspect the hive frequently, it is found that the closure of the king of Taiwan, the abdomen of the bee queen shrinking or stopping spawning is a precursor to the bee, and timely measures must be taken to eliminate the separation of bees to avoid weakening the group and affecting the collection of honey. Pay attention to preventing honeybees from picking honey and feeding bees. Honey must not be spilled on the outside of the box. If it is spilled on the outside of the box, it must be thoroughly cleaned. The nest door should not be too large, the beehive must be tight, and the cracks must not be broken. Honey spleen, beeswax, and honey-breaking machines that are likely to cause stolen bees must be preserved. Note that the destruction of predators is mainly insects such as worms, ants, and wasps, as well as birds, rodents and cockroaches. Pay attention to the health of bee colonies and frequently clean the beehives and the surrounding environment. Pay attention to the epidemic should pay attention to the regular observation of the behavior of the bees, find abnormalities and immediately analyze and take preventive measures. It is important to understand the main source of flowering within 5 km of the surrounding, especially the flowering period of poisonous plants of nectar pollen. It is necessary to understand in a timely manner the major plants that are responsible for the honey flow and to avoid the use of pesticides in order to avoid pesticide poisoning.

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