The first thing is to choose a beekeeping site. First, there must be a good honey source. The bee farm should be facing away from the wind and sunny, with good woods, not too humid or too sunny, and not in a Beside a large pond or river.
The construction and maintenance of the nest spleen should be started in late spring, when the climate is stable and the temperature is around 15°C. The spleen needs to be protected from bees and rats, and it is best to fumigate with drugs during storage.
First of all, check whether there are many bees. If there are fewer and fewer bees, you should pay attention. Either the bees have escaped, or they are affected by diseases and insect pests, or they have lost the queen bee and have not continued to produce offspring. When checking bees, it is best for beginners to wear bee-proof clothing to avoid being stung by bees.
Beekeeping management in spring is very important, and beekeeping also focuses on spring. Spring is the production and breeding season of bees. Therefore, good spring management is particularly important. The main tasks of spring management are to supply sufficient feed, strengthen management, discover problems and deal with them in time.
When managing bees in spring, attention should be paid to keeping warm and preventing Varroa mites. Regular inspections should be conducted to detect problems and dead bees should be removed every half month. If you find accumulation of honeycomb residues, you should open the cover immediately and check. Generally, there are rats in this situation. Replace the honeycombs that have been bitten by rats in a timely manner.
Bees flying out in spring need good and normal defecation. Normal bowel movements resemble sorghum grains or lines. If the belly of the bee is swollen, lying in front of the nest to excrete and there are thin spots, it means that the feed of the bee colony is poor or damp, and it should be replaced in time.
There are many tools for bee breeding and management. In addition to beehives, there are also hive foundations, honey separators, surface nets, scrapers, bee brooms, queen partitions, etc., which are all necessary. They are selected according to the size of the bees. , other bee equipment such as royal jelly production, bee pollen production, etc. can be purchased as needed. Special tools for beekeeping. One end is a scimitar and the other is a flat knife. Use it to pry, scrape, and shovel things. Such as prying the auxiliary cover and scraping the dirt inside the hive and on the frame.