How to find the queen bee from the bee colony and see how wild bees catch the queen bee?

Wild bees are the main source of bee species for many beekeepers, and the queen bee is the most integral part of the entire colony. If care is not taken when harvesting a wild bee colony, the queen bee can be injured or killed. The management of the bee colony in the future is extremely unfavorable. Let's see how wild bees catch the queen bee!

Harvest: Drive swarms out of nests with smoke.

There are generally two situations in wild bee colony collection. One is the direct access to the colony. In this case, collecting the swarm is very simple. The entire colony can be loaded with a bee collection tool. , the other is the bee colony in stone caves and tree caves. It is more troublesome to collect this kind of bee colony, but basically it uses the habit of bees to be afraid of smoke to drive the bee colony out of the nest, and then uses the smoke to drive the bee colony out of the nest. Put on a bee collection kit and collect the bees that come out of the nest.

Finding the Queen Bee: Determine if there is a queen bee in the ant colony.

The characteristics of queen bees are very different from other bees. The body length is about one-third longer than that of ordinary bees, especially the abdomen is relatively long, and the wings can only cover half of the abdomen. There is no need to search for the queen bee when there is a wild swarm in the colony. You just need to know if there is a queen bee in the colony. When there is a queen bee, there is a concave ventilation hole at the bottom of the colony. Otherwise there is no such vent.

Catching the Queen Bee: It is best to use a king cage to catch the queen bee.

You don't need to hunt the queen to collect swarms of wild bees, just "pack" the whole colony together, while collecting wild bee colonies in tree holes or rock caves requires attention to the queen's condition How to find the queen from the colony, Use the cage to control the queen bee as she crawls out of the hole. It is best not to grab the queen bee directly with your hands. The reason is that power is not easy to control. If the force is small, the queen bee may break free. Squeeze the queen bee.

It's common to lose a queen bee when harvesting wild bees, but losing a queen doesn't mean you can't keep bees. A mature wangtai, if there is no queen bee and wangtai, is there no way for the bee colony to remedy it? In fact, this is not the case. At this time, there is a last way, which is to add some eggs and spleens to the queenless colony, so that the colony can "emergency be the king". Summary: There is absolutely no need to catch the queen bee when wild bees gather on the tree, but when collecting bees in tree holes or stone holes, pay attention to whether the queen bee has come out of the nest. You can control how to find the queen bee from the colony, do not grab the queen bee with bare hands and cause the queen bee to be injured or killed.