Why are bees inactive?
Aug 10,2022 Lucia Ma
When I was beekeeping, my friends all knew the process of not eating in the middle. Now I feed a lot of food with my friends, and I found a lot of bees during breastfeeding. So, what is the reason why the bees have no spirit to pick? Let's find out if we eat without grapes in front of our door?
Newly harvested bee colony
Since the newly harvested bee colony has just arrived in the new environment, the bees need a little time to adapt, so at the beginning, there will be situations where the bees feeding syrup or honey will not eat. Regarding the situation of the newly harvested bee colony, we only need to do a good job in the management of the bee colony, so that there is no peculiar smell, and the place where people and animals do not often pass by, is not on the windy vent where the wind often blows, and the bee gate is not facing the sun setting. If you are worried about the queen bee escaping, you can put an anti-escape film on the door of the nest and remove it after you see that the bees are collecting honey normally.
Bees are not strong
Due to the low number of bees, it is difficult to see if the bees are eating honey. In this case, we can quickly reproduce the bee colony by strengthening the strength and complementing the weakness. The method is to supplement the spleen of the strong colony to the weak colony, and lift the egg worm spleen of the weak colony to the strong colony for feeding, so that the strong colony drives the weak colony, and the two colonies can be recovered soon.
Unhealthy bees
Bees will also not eat or drink when they are sick. Regarding this situation, it is necessary to find out the reason why the bees are sick as soon as possible, and then prescribe the right medicine.
Bees preparing to escape
Bees also do not eat or drink when preparing to escape the colony, and their attendance is greatly reduced or even absent, and the larvae are not seen in the colony, or the worker bees clean up the larvae in the beehive. Regarding the escape of bees, the bee colony must be affected. For example, serious bee robbery, infestation by nest insects, long-term shaking of the beehive, and sunlight stimulation may all cause the phenomenon of bee escape. Generally, as long as we prepare the environment for the bees, the bees are not easy to escape from the colony. For this situation, we must carefully check the cause, and then solve it in a targeted manner.
What's up with the bees crawling listlessly in front of the beehive door?
This is called "crawling bee disease". The sick bee has a pot-bellied shape, flutters its wings when it just climbs out of the nest door, and dies after crawling on the ground in front of the nest door for several hours. If proper treatment measures are not taken, a colony can be completely crawled in 10 to 20 days.