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Key Beekeeping Techniques for Chinese Honey Bees Building Comb
Chinese honey bees love new comb and dislike old comb. When keeping Chinese honey bees, be sure to seize the right moment to build new comb, so that new comb is used year-round. For Chinese honey bees to build comb, pay attention to the following st...
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How to do artificial swarming in beekeeping? A detailed guide to the methods
Artificial swarming means taking several honey-and-pollen combs, brood combs, and adult-bee combs from a colony to form a new colony. After artificial swarming, by the main honey flow...
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Beekeeping Techniques: How to Replace the Queen Twice a Year
In southern Anhui, spring breeding begins in early to mid-January and ends in mid-to-late October after wintering bees are raised. The breeding period lasts as long as 10 months, and the queen is prone to aging, especially after the high-temperature summer period...
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40 years of beekeeping with Italian bees: a brief discussion of the dispute between Chinese bees and Italian bees
The dispute between Chinese bees and Italian bees has, at some unknown point, become a focal point of argument among beekeepers and honey eaters, fought over bitterly, yet it seems to be a battle that will never have a win...
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Selection methods for grafting in artificial queen rearing in beekeeping
Queen-rearing conditions: besides the close relationship between queen body weight and egg weight and queen quality, every factor in the artificial queen-rearing process has a great influence on queen quality...
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Detailed Explanation of Bee Venom Collection Methods in Beekeeping (Part 3)
Bee venom has antiviral and antibacterial effects, anti-cell mutation, anti-cancer and tumor-eliminating effects, and the ability to repair cell and gene damage, activate human epidermal penetration...
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Must-Know Essentials of Beekeeping: How to Prevent Bee Colonies from Absconding
In beekeeping production, due to the influence of adverse factors within the colony, some colonies may abscond every year. (1) Reasons for bee colony absconding 1)...
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Beekeeping Techniques for Spring Colony Buildup: How to Cultivate Strong Colonies
For beekeeping, the whole year depends on spring; spring buildup management is the key. With strong colonies in early spring, a full year's harvest holds promise. In fine weather, royal jelly, honey and pollen all see high yields and a bumper harvest; in wet weather...
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Two lessons from beekeeping experience, worth a beekeeper's reference
A few key points on feeding sugar when bees forage on tea flowers. For beekeepers in the south, autumn tea is also a major flowering period, with a long flowering season and abundant pollen. Foraging tea flowers requires preparing several tons of white sugar...
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Detailed Introduction to Common Beekeeping Tools and Their Uses
1. Foundation Foundation is the base installed inside the frame for bees to build comb; it is a man-made sheet of beeswax pressed by a foundation mill, with a base plate having cells and cell walls. There is Italian bee foundation for keeping European honey bees; drone foundation for producing drone pupae; and Chinese bee foundation for keeping Chinese bees. Combs built with foundation are neat, flat, and sturdy, with few drone cells. 2. Veil The veil is a tool used when managing colonies to protect the operator's head and neck from bee stings. 3. Hive tool A special tool for beekeeping. One end is a curved blade, the other end
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