Continuous rain causes bees to lack honey and powder. What should beekeepers do?

1. The problem of supplementary feeding of bee colonies with high-quality white sugar

So how should beekeepers solve the plight of bees at this time? The immediate way is to feed the bee colonies Supplementary feeding. On the one hand, subsidized feeding is to solve the honey shortage dilemma of the bee colony. On the other hand, it is to stimulate the bees' parenting mood and secrete royal jelly to feed the queen bee, so that the queen bee can continue to lay eggs. Beekeepers basically use high-quality white sugar to subsidize the bee colonies. The conventional method is to boil sugar water for supplementary feeding at night. However, this feeding method can easily cause three diseases in summer when the bee colony is seriously short of honey. Question. First, feeding white sugar water can easily lead to bee theft. After all, bees have been short of honey for a long time due to the rainy weather, and the strong smell of sugar water can easily trigger bee theft. Second, white sugar water cannot have a sustained stimulating effect on bees. , and bees feed sugar water directly to the larvae, which affects the larvae's physique; third, in hot weather, sugar water easily ferments, foams and turns sour, which is not conducive to storage and consumption by bees.

2. The problem of correct subsidized feeding of bee colonies

What is the effect of subsidized feeding of deficient bee colonies in summer? Bee robbing does not occur, it can have a continuous stimulating effect on bees and queen bees, increase the number of brood, reduce the sugar consumption of bee larvae, and supplement the salt required by the bee colony. In order to achieve this feeding effect, beekeepers have to feed the bee colonies white sugar in a modified way, from the original conventional white sugar water feeding bee colonies to "hard white sugar" feeding the bee colonies. The so-called "hard white sugar" is made by melting the white sugar and cooling it into a whole piece of white sugar. So now let me talk about my method. First, adjust the temperature of the pot so that the sugar does not burn in the pot. To melt sugar, you need to add sugar to the pot little by little. You cannot start melting the whole pot of sugar, otherwise the sugar at the bottom of the pot will burn easily. After the sugar is melted, add some honey to the melted sugar to increase the honey flavor of the sugar. At the same time, add a little edible salt to supplement the salt content for the bees. After that, you can pour the melted syrup into the prepared grinding tool, and after cooling, just take out the hard candy cubes. It is best to make the candy cubes larger to extend the time for the bees to eat.

3. Feeding bees with hard candy cubes has obvious advantages

Compared with the disadvantages of feeding bees with white sugar water, feeding bees with hard candy cubes has obvious advantages. First, the honey fragrance is not easily exuded from the beehive and is less likely to cause bee theft; second, bees lick hard candy pieces, which can be used as rations for adult bees. The nectar collected from outside is used to raise larvae, reducing the need for bees to feed on white sugar. Feed the larvae; third, the hard candy can be consumed for a long time, which can continuously stimulate the bee colony and increase the number of bee colonies; fourth, the salt in the sugar is enough for the bee colony to consume, reducing the burden of the bee colony going out to collect salt. ; Fifth, white sugar water is easy to mix with honey, but this will not happen with hard candy pieces, ensuring the purity of honey, because bees will eat as much hard candy as they use.