Why do bees divide?

Experts put forward two explanations for bee sorting: lack of honey production, and most of them use beehives as spleen. At this time, the queen bee lays more eggs, which must be solved by dividing bees; Or the new queen bee was born for hormonal reasons, forcing the old queen bee to leave the nest.

When dividing bees, the old queen bee only took a few bees and left more bees to the new queen bee. The queen bee lives in the bee colony for 3-5 years. Because the reproduction rate of the old queen bee is gradually decreasing, it is often eliminated manually in beekeeping.

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Artificial bee sorting generally has the following methods:

Average bee distribution method

In this method, stronger bees should be used. When the spleen reaches seven or eight squares, take another hive, and evenly separate the spleen and honey spleen, so that the two boxes are about half a meter away from the original site. Half a day or a day later, a queen bee who lays eggs will be lured to a colony of queen bees without bees. In this way, the bees will fly into the left and right boxes when they return to their nests. If the number of flying boxes is uneven, the distance between the hive and the original site can be adjusted appropriately.

The advantage of this method is that both the original colony and the new colony have bees of all ages, which does not destroy the normal activities of the colony and the colony develops rapidly. Its disadvantage is that a strong group suddenly becomes two weak groups, and it takes more than a month to put into production. Therefore, 40 days before the main honey gathering period, the queen bees who lay eggs should be evenly distributed, and new groups should not be lured into the queen bee platform.

It takes about ten days for the new queen bee to mate and lay eggs after she leaves the house. If the new colony is lured into the queen platform, the feeding ability of the new colony will not be fully utilized, which will affect the development of the colony. If you lose a new queen bee during mating, the loss will be even greater.

Combined bee separation method

In this method, let the stronger bees with more than nine cells do their best: more bees, more eggs, more pupae, more honey and more powder. After breeding, the original colony will fill the nest base or empty spleen. Put the eggs and pupa spleen in the middle of the empty hive, put the honey spleen on both sides, and lure a queen bee who lays eggs the next day, thus forming a new bee colony.

When lifting bees, ensure that each pupa spleen can have more than 3000 worker bees. Otherwise, after a new colony is formed, some worker bees will fly back, and the rest will not be able to protect the pupa spleen. This method not only forms a new bee colony, but also controls the craze of bee splitting, which can kill two birds with one stone.

However, this method cannot be used when there are infectious diseases in the bee farm; The original bee colony is in the mating period of the virgin queen bee and cannot lift the spleen; There is almost no honey on the spleen of pupa, and there is no honey on the spleen. Before lifting the spleen, the original bee colony should be fed enough honey to make the pupa spleen have 0.5-0.75 kg of honey.

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Baidu encyclopedia-fen bee