What bee species are suitable for beekeeping in our country? What beginners need to know about beekeeping
When it comes to bees, many people think of industriousness, but in fact the greatest value of bees is that they can produce honey. Rural areas are nestled by mountains and rivers, and the natural environment is very suitable for developing the beekeeping industry, and many regions have successfully become wealthy through beekeeping. If you want to keep bees, the first thing you need to understand is their species. Let's take a detailed look at bee species below.
1. Chinese bee
The Chinese bee is a native superior breed, also called the native bee, Chinese honeybee, wild bee, etc. It has strong disease resistance, a long honey-collecting period, and is suitable for fixed-point beekeeping in mountainous areas. In the mountainous areas of southwest and south China, due to nectar sources and climate, Chinese bees are basically kept. At present, the areas with more rearing include Guangdong, Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Fujian, Gansu, etc.
2. Italian bee
The Italian bee, also called the Italian honeybee, has advantages such as strong reproductive capacity, weak swarming tendency, and strong honey and royal jelly production capacity. Because it has difficulty overwintering and passing the summer, it is difficult to keep in the subtropical areas of south China, and in areas with severe cold or variable early-spring climates. At present, the areas in our country with more Italian bee rearing include the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, north China, northwest China, and most of northeast China.
3. Northeast black bee
The Northeast black bee is a superior local bee breed in our country, with advantages such as strong cold resistance, disease resistance and stress resistance, gentle temperament, strong reproductive capacity, weak swarming tendency, and strong collecting ability. It is mainly distributed in Raohe County, Heilongjiang Province, our country. In 1997, the State Council officially approved Raohe County as the Northeast Black Bee National Nature Reserve, and in 2006 the Northeast black bee was included in the Ministry of Agriculture's "National List of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources Protection".
4. Yellow-legged hornet
The yellow-legged hornet is distributed throughout China, generally building nests in hidden places such as earth cavities and tree holes, and after growing stronger it migrates to tree trunks, houses, rocks and other places. The yellow-legged hornet has characteristics such as strong colony strength, strong collecting ability, and strong disease resistance. At present, the areas with more yellow-legged hornets include Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places.
5. Caucasian bee
The Caucasian bee, abbreviated as the high bee, has advantages such as gentle temperament, active brood rearing, weak swarming tendency, strong collecting ability, and relatively strong cold tolerance. It has low sensitivity to external reactions, easily gets lost from the hive, and has a strong robbing tendency. The first areas in our country where it was kept were eastern, northern and a few western parts of northeast China, and later it was crossbred with black bees and Italian bees during rearing.
6. Xinjiang black bee
The Xinjiang black bee is a superior black bee strain suited to Xinjiang's climate and nectar source characteristics. It has advantages such as strong collecting ability, strong disease and stress resistance, strong reproductive capacity, weak swarming tendency, and good overwintering performance. It is mainly distributed in the Ili, Tacheng and Altay areas of northwestern Xinjiang, our country.
7. Carniolan bee
The Carniolan bee, also called the Carnica bee, Karnica bee, etc., has advantages such as strong collecting ability, being good at using scattered nectar sources, weak robbing tendency, and gentle temperament. After being introduced to our country and undergoing decades of selection and domestication, its hybrids account for about 20 to 30% of the total number of Western honeybees in our country, becoming the third largest bee species widely distributed in various places after the Italian bee and the Chinese bee.
If you want to devote yourself to the bee-keeping industry, the basic living habits of the species cannot be ignored. The above 7 bee species introduced by the editor can give you a simple understanding for beekeeping, and I hope it helps you.
For wonderful pictures and articles and popular comments about bee keeping, you may be interested in the content recommended below by Nongxun Network. Welcome to read.