Breeding bees is a highly technical job. How to prevent ants from invading when keeping bees?

Ants are natural enemies of bees, which can be divided into two categories, one is termites that destroy boxes, and the other is bee-eating ants that attack bees and steal honey.

The main natural enemies of bees are wasps, toads, birds, spiders, ants and cockroaches. The biggest pest of Italian bees is mites, and the biggest pest of Chinese bees is nest worms. It is very troublesome to prevent and control, which makes beekeepers have a headache. Breeding Italian bees must regularly control the infestation of mites. Mites exist in nature. When bees collect flowers, they easily attach to them and bring them back to the hive. Insecticidal and nest cleaning will also bring about another outbreak, so almost every big honey source, Italian bees should be protected against mites.

The hive worm in the middle was brought in from the outside. There is a kind of wax moth, which likes to eat beeswax, and will take the opportunity to get into the hive at night to lay eggs. The eggs hatch into nest worms, and eat the nest spleen and bite the pupae, which is very harmful to bees. The key to the control method is to make the bee colony dense and the worker bees have enough cleaning ability, so that the eggs produced by the wax moth can be cleaned out in time and cannot hatch out, which will harm the bee colony. In addition, the hive must be tight, and there can be no holes and gaps for wax moths to drill into.

The door of the nest should be as small as possible to prevent wax moths from entering. There can be no lights in the hive, which will attract a large number of wax moths and the hive will be overwhelmed. Beekeepers should pay attention to cleaning the wax chips at the bottom of the hive, changing the spleen to make the colony clean, and try to use new spleen to make the nest eggs have no hiding place to avoid harm. Now there are drugs to treat this disease, such as Chao Chuqing. However, it is difficult to cure the nest worm with drugs. Intensive treatment is necessary. And wasps, whether Italian or China, are harmful. Besides the ruthless killing of wasps, the only way to prevent them is to find a way to clear the hornet's nest.

Or catch a few live bumblebees, stick them on their backs with highly toxic pesticide powder, let the bumblebees fly back to the hive, poison them into the hive, and kill them all. You can also use a net bag to keep bees out of the hive door, but workers can go in and out normally. Toad only comes out at night, runs to the door of the hive and eats the worker bees guarded outside. In addition to catching toads regularly every night, the solution is to raise the hive so that toads can't get close to the door, so that bees won't be eaten. As for birds and dragonflies, they are also good at eating flying bees. But we really can't help.