But in more than 20 minutes, Xu Yi saw the towering gate of Agricultural University.

Xu Yi didn't ride directly to the campus, but fell to the edge of the school gate, stopped against the side of the road, and took out the phone to call Zhu Zhiwen.

"Hello, is it Mr. Zhu Zhiwen?"

"I'm, who are you?" a male voice came from the phone.

"I'm a friend of Liu Mengyao, I asked her to call you for me just now, do you have two boxes of bees here ready to deal with?"

Although Zhu Zhiwen said that he really wanted to dispose of these two boxes of bees, he still told the truth, after all, everyone understands this, and he will know it when he mentions the bee spleen, which can't be blinded to others, but if people are not interested in such a weak group, it is better to come in vain, it is better to say it clearly, so he said: "There are two boxes, but they are Northeast black bees, and the bee colony is relatively weak, if you breed it, it is estimated that it will be difficult to have a harvest this year, do you want to?"

Xu Yi didn't know what was weak or not, but he also knew that when people said this, he was sure that there was something wrong with this bee colony, so he couldn't make up his mind for a while, and asked, "Teacher Zhu, can I go over and have a look first?"

"Come here, I'm in the office right now. ”

"I'm at the gate of the Agricultural University now, how can I get to you?"

"Which door are you in?"

"The entrance of Xuelin Street here"

"We're in Building 18, so when you go inside the school, you see a cross and bend to the road on the left, and go all the way to the end, and then follow the road on the right all the way to the end, and the building at the end of the road is the one that is right on the first floor, and I'm in the bee lab on the right hand side on the first floor. ”

"Okay, then Mr. Zhu, we'll see you later. ”

The campus of Agricultural University is larger than that of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Xu Yi is not very familiar with the road, so it took a while to ride over.

Looking at the bronze door number, Xu Yi nodded, then knocked lightly on the door a few times, and pushed the door in after hearing the response.

There was only one man in his forties with a somewhat thin face in the room, who looked towards Xu Yi.

Xu Yi nodded and asked, "Are you Teacher Zhu Zhiwen?" My name is Xu Yi. ”

Zhu Zhiwen got up, shook hands with Xu Yi, and said, "I'm Zhu Zhiwen, hello Xiao Xu, do you want to buy bees?"

"Yes. ”

"We have a Northeast black bee here, not a Chinese bee or an Italian bee. Zhu Zhiwen looked at Xu Yi and emphasized again.

"Does this make a difference?" Xu Yi thought to himself, but he didn't say it, just nodded.

"Then come with me, I'll take you to see it, decide whether to buy it or not. Zhu Zhiwen took Xu Yi out of the room and went around to the back of the building.

More than ten meters behind the building is the outer wall of the school, and a dense screen screen separates a piece of grass of about seventy or eighty square meters.

After all, this net has been placed for a long time, and it is covered with dust, and you can vaguely see a side building on the side of the wall, and two boxes are placed alone on the side below.

Xu Yi couldn't help but be a little surprised, didn't this bee collect honey, why was it encircled with a net, so he pointed to the net and asked, "This?"

"No way, now the outside are vegetable farmers planting vegetables, last year when the rape flowered, just in time for them to lift the shed to spray, as a result, more than 30 boxes of bees lost most of them, and even more than a dozen queen bees died, there is no way to engage in scientific research, if not so, the research group can not be disbanded. ”

"Then can you still collect honey in this circle?"

"Since last year, we have withdrawn the project, in order to reduce losses, the rest of these had to be kept in captivity, do a few projects, and now the project team has gone back to work on their own projects, and sold more than a dozen boxes in the spring, and the remaining two boxes have been fed with sugar water and honey until now. ”

"In this case, doesn't it mean that pesticides are not allowed to be used in this vegetable?"

"That's just when it's time to harvest, and these fields around the university town are now growing vegetables every year, and the incidence of pests and diseases is quite high, so if you don't use medicine, the vegetables won't grow at all. Although low-toxicity and low-residue drugs are used now, no matter how low-toxicity and low-residue pesticides are, they are only for people, just like the pyrethroids contained in mosquito coils are highly toxic to bees. Zhu Zhiwen sighed, stretched out his hand to open the small door of the protective net and walked in.

Xu Yi followed up, and only then could he see that occasionally one or two black bees flew in and out from the exit under the two beehives, and if he didn't pay attention, he would only think that it was an empty box, and he wouldn't know that it was a box of bees at all.

"The other beehives were bought about two months ago, and these two boxes are the remaining vulnerable groups of bees that have just been separated this year, lacking a nectar source, and they can't develop at all by artificial feeding alone. ”

"Aren't others taking this honey collection, can't they just take it and raise it?" Xu Yi was puzzled, doesn't this mean that bees can develop as long as they have honey harvesting.

Zhu Zhiwen glanced at Xu Yi and felt a little strange in his heart, but he still patiently explained: "There's no way, we're okay here, there is no epidemic." ”

"Their large-scale beekeeping, for a long time, the bee colony will inevitably be infected with mites and nest worms or something, especially the weak group, it is easy to be infected, in their place, such a weak bee colony, basically abandoned, not to mention that they are all from far away, this boat is tired, too weak bee colony can not afford to toss. In addition, people keep bees to make money, and if they want to raise a strong bee colony, they will have to be several months, and this year is basically no fun, so no one is rare at all These two boxes of bees. ”

Xu Yi suddenly said, "That's right, Mr. Zhu, how many bees are there in this box?"

"These two boxes are less than a thousand in one box, even if they add up to less than one spleen bee, it is more difficult and laborious to rejuvenate, if you want, just give a hundred yuan in one box. As he spoke, Zhu Zhiwen opened a box and took out a piece of bees crawling with black bees and pointed it to Xu Yi. "Look, the biggest of this head is the queen bee. Both boxes of queen bees were just bred this year. ”

"There are two people who want to be the queen bee and are ready to use it to hybridize and improve the bee colony, but I didn't give up, this is a purebred Northeast black bee, although it can improve the bee species, but it's a pity, so I didn't promise them. Zhu Zhiwen said, and carefully put the bee spleen back into the beehive.

"Only a few bees?"

Xu Yi didn't say that he had seen beekeeping with his own eyes, even if he heard it, he didn't have a chance to hear it, at most, he had seen a few bees in the vegetable garden, but they were all yellow stripes, and then there were wasps, and beekeeping was really improvised.

Originally, I thought that there would be a lot of bees in this box, but now I look at it and climb up to the size of two palms, which can't help but make Xu Yi a little disappointed.

Of course, this black bee is the first time to see it, if it is not close, you can see the difference, this is easy to be regarded as a big green bean fly

"If the management keeps up and there is no pesticide damage, there is still hope for raising strong, but this year probably don't think about producing honey, after all, the development of bee colonies needs to eat a lot, and there are not many bees to collect bees when such a little bee goes to the internal staff. ”

"Okay, I'll take these two boxes. This queen bee is so big, if you want me to look at it, it's like a big hornet. Xu Yi smiled.

Xu Yi sighed, fortunately, this is a weak group, and people don't look down on it, otherwise he doesn't have a chance, if he misses this village, he will really lose this store, and the ghost knows where to find bees again, so he also made up his mind to take down these two boxes of bees.

But obviously, this beekeeping must be a technical job, Xu Yi thought that Zhu Zhiwen would definitely be able to provide him with a lot of advice when studying bees, so he asked: "Mr. Zhu, I don't have a foundation in beekeeping, do you have any good advice here or can you guide me?"

When Zhu Zhiwen heard this, his eyes lit up, and he asked, "You haven't raised bees before?"

Xu Yi shook his head.

"So are you going to use a car to pull around to catch up with the beekeepers, or do you want to raise them in a fixed place, oh, that is, in a fixed place?"

"I'm mainly going to raise it for pollination, so I must have raised it at home. ”

"Is there a nectar source?"

"What is a honey garden, is it a bee garden?" Xu Yi asked, not knowing that his answer was not what he was asking, and even more revealing his ignorance.

"That is to say, there are not many flowering plants around, and what is the distribution of this kind of species, is it all year round? If not, there are some seasons that need to be artificially fed. ”

"Well, there aren't many plant species, but they bloom all year round. Xu Yi said.

Yes, it's just six cherry trees, but at least for now, it seems that if there is no seasonal change, it should be in bloom all year round.

"There's no problem with that, the black bee is about the same as the medium bee for the use of scattered nectar sources, and it is much better than the Italian bee. There are more hairs on the body, and the mouthparts are about the same length as those of the Italian bee, longer than the mouthparts of the Chinese bee, and the pollination energy is stronger than that of the Chinese bee, and the selectivity for nectar source is not as strong as that of the Chinese bee. ”

"Mr. Zhu, do you mean that this pollination is good?"

"Yes. Have you bought the equipment you need for beekeeping?"

Xu Yi shook his head again, this beekeeping still needs tools, isn't it just this box?

Zhu Zhiwen took Xu Yi to the other corner of the side building, uncovered a colorful cloth, pointed to a bunch of things covered underneath and said: "If you want to say simple, it is simple, and the simplest things can also be beekeeping." This gauze hat is worn on the head when managing beehives and bee colonies to prevent accidents from bee attacks. You've always seen this big brush, right?"

When Xu Yi saw this, he really knew, isn't this a big brush for sweeping the bed in his dormitory.

"If there are few bees on the bee spleen, you can't use a bee blower, you can take this, gently sweep the bee on the bee spleen, you can sweep the bees back into the hive, to avoid accidentally injuring the bees when handling the bee spleen, or accidentally being attacked by bees. ”

"It's funny, and you have to use a hair dryer to ......," Xu Yi thought to himself.

"These two are honey knives for cutting honey caps, of course, you can also buy electric heating, but these are a bit too wasteful for these two boxes of bees. When using this, soak it in hot water to prevent beeswax and honey from sticking to the knife or cutting the bee's spleen. ”

"This bucket is called a honey shaker, to insert the cut honeycomb into the middle shelf, and then shake the handle in the middle, the centrifugal force can be used to throw the honey in the hive outside, and then filter it to bottle or barrel. ”

"These are the most basic facilities that are needed to breed all kinds of bees. ”