0326 Honey cutting
Seeing that there was nothing else to do for the time being, Xu Yi returned to the edge of the workbench and picked up the assembled planks to check them.
The glue between the joints of those collaged planks looked as if it had dried out, leaving only a thin, inconspicuous white line on the surface of the joints. Xu Yi picked up a board and grabbed both ends and broke it hard, but he didn't break it from the seam. Xu Yi nodded, making sure that the glue had indeed dried thoroughly.
Xu Yi took the tools and trimmed all the planks to the right size, and then assembled them according to the specifications of the previous compartment.
A swarm of bees only needs one set of beehives to be enough, and this time Xu Yi only needs to make another set of lattice boxes. However, he still directly made two more sets of boxes, and even the extra boards were not wasted, and they were all nailed into squares before stopping. After all, there is just a surplus of planks, and there will be no loss in making two more sets and putting them there. In addition, if you collect bees next time, you can save yourself from wasting time making beehives, and if you want to take honey, you can also replace them with some lattices.
After moving all the finished lattice boxes to the previous box near the bees, Xu Yi went out of the space directly, ready to check the time.
Seeing that it was almost ten o'clock in the evening, Xu Yi entered the space and was fully armed, and went directly out of the space along the river.
Xu Yi carefully turned the handle to open the door, so as not to disturb the bees with a sudden noise.
After a long day in the sun, and the windows were all in charge, it was inevitable that the room would be a little stuffy. Xu Yi pushed open the door and felt a cool breeze coming towards him, sweeping the heat in the room. With the cool breeze came a burst of noise. Compared to the silence of the village. There is no doubt that it is much more lively here along the river. Although it is not a car and a horse Xuantian, it can still be regarded as a crowd.
Xu Yi walked to the edge of the terrace and looked down at the railing, and found that although it was already this time, in addition to the store because there were many more cars on the way in and out of the road, there were also many pedestrians on the street. Of course, this person and car go all the way, and there are too many cars in front of the store, so the flow of people is basically by the river. I think most of them are disgusted with the hot weather during the day and don't like to go out, so they take advantage of this time to run out to enjoy the coolness. And then there are some people who take advantage of this time to come out to exercise.
Seeing this, Xu Yi's confidence is also firmer, with so many people, this store is not going to open well, and he really has this space for nothing!
Xu Yi turned around and walked back, ready to deal with the bee cage.
At night, all the bees that go out to collect honey naturally return to their nests. Through the dim light from the surrounding buildings, Xu Yi could vaguely see that the bees in the bee cage were almost full. It seems that this group of bees is not only not less than the previous nest of bees, but the swarm is a little stronger.
Even if he was standing on the ground, Xu Yi could hear the bees in the bee cage making honey. A subtle buzzing sound with a flapping of wings.
Xu Yi moved the prepared stool over and lightly placed it on the ground under the bee cage. Stepping on the stool, he slowly turned down the sleeve-like cloth cover attached to the bee cage.
This job is not difficult, but Xu Yi also did it very carefully, holding his breath and trying to control the range of movements. He was neatly dressed from head to toe, and he wasn't worried about being stung by bees. But he was afraid that the bees would blow up their nests because they were disturbed. The queen bee couldn't be found at all on this big night, and if the king also fled with the swarm, then the nest of bees would not have a chance to be recovered.
Fortunately, until Xu Yi put down the cloth cover and pinched the hanging opening, there was no obvious movement in this group of bees. Xu Yi breathed a sigh of relief, took off the bee cage and returned to the house to take it directly into the space.
The carton was still there last time, Xu Yi thought about it and directly pinched the opening of the cloth cover and stretched it into the carton, and then grabbed the bee cage and shook it a few times, shaking all the bees inside into the carton.
After covering the cardboard box to prevent the bee colony from escaping, Xu Yi turned the bee cage over and then pulled the cloth cover back, and saw four or five white hives about the size of a palm arranged parallel to the bottom of the bee cage.
Xu Yi carefully broke off a piece of bee spleen and checked it, after all, it was a wild bee, and the nesting time was not long, so there were not many honey, pollen or bee eggs on this nest spleen, and I didn't see any hatched larvae inside.
Trying to avoid touching the spleen below, Xu Yi trimmed these nest spleens and fixed them in a lattice box, and then removed the bottom plate of the beehive, stuffed the cardboard box containing the bees under the shelf, and opened the lid of the carton.
Xu Yi squatted there and observed carefully for a while, and saw that the worker bees flew up from the cardboard boxes, some flew into the beehive, and some flew outside, flying around the beehive and Xu Yi.
After looking at it for a while, Xu Yi found the queen bee in the box. However, the queen bee obviously had no desire to fly, and slowly climbed into the beehive with a big belly along the lid of the cardboard box on the beehive shelf.
The worker bees flew for a while, or sensed that there was no danger, and they all landed on the hive, found the hive door, or got through the hole in the bottom plate.
There was a commotion in the hive, and then bees crawled out of the hive door and flew into the distance, apparently they probably thought the hive was good, and were ready to settle down and start looking for the source of the honey.
Xu Yi was relieved, took the bottom plate and stuffed it back to the bottom of the beehive, stood up and gently clenched his fist, and got another box!
Turning his head to see the box of bees before, Xu Yi walked over, he hadn't seen them for a few days, so he still checked them again.
I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.
Pulling open the bottom panel, Xu Yi looked inside and immediately frowned. The spleen inside the hive is completely full, and the longest spleen is almost attached to the bottom plate of the beehive.
Obviously, this group of bees has been kept for so long, and the colony is getting stronger and stronger, and the nesting speed is getting faster and faster, but this hive has become like this after not checking it for a few days. Ignore this, fearing that the hive will soon be filled with honey and pollen by bees, and they will stop working. Even if the colony is even stronger, it is not said that these bees will also create spleens outside the hive like the black bees before, which will be much more troublesome to deal with at that time.
Xu Yi can count on these bees to pollinate his vegetables, this store is about to open, and he is still preparing for large-scale sowing, if the bees strike at this time, what will the yield of this vegetable rely on?
For this kind of hidden danger, Xu Yi quickly came up with the simplest countermeasure - add a box and then cut the spleen!
Fortunately, this situation was discovered relatively early, and the problem was much easier to solve than in the previous situation of the black bee.
After all, the lattice box is different from the development direction of the standard beehive colony, and the bees in it rely on the original hive spleen all the way down to make a spleen. If it is not for the fear that the hive will be too high and easy to fall down, and the possibility that the bees will not be able to reach the upper part of the hive, this kind of hive can be infinitely added to the grid as the colony expands.
Xu Yi only has one question that he can't figure out now, that is, he doesn't know when this group of bees will be able to stabilize if it continues to develop like this, whether it will stop when the size of this bee colony reaches a certain level as the worker bees alternate between the old and the new or the same as the previous Black Wind.
Fortunately, he thought that such a thing might happen, so the specifications of the checkered boxes he made were all the same.
Xu Yi directly removed more than half of the lattice box next to him, leaving only a few layers of lattices that were almost half a meter high below. Pick up the box of bees and sit directly on top of the grid, then take them all up and put the hive back in the direction of the original hive door.
Standing on the edge of the beehive and waiting for a while, he found that there was nothing abnormal about the bee colony, and it was still busy entering and exiting at the gate of the beehive, so Xu Yi got up and walked to the tent, ready to find tools to cut off a few layers of lattice.
In this case, the smoke smoker is a must, and Xu Yi also found a flat-edged screwdriver, took a piece of thin wire and scrubbed it clean, and returned to the edge of the beehive.
Removing the upper cover of the beehive, Xu Yi lit the smoke smoker, and gently sprayed a few times through the fence-like gland into the gap in the middle of the bee's spleen.
The bees inside the hive had all climbed up along the bee's spleen because of the sudden light on it, but when they came into contact with the green smoke that sprayed it, they quickly climbed back down like a receding tide.
After spraying a few times and touching all the bees to climb underneath, Xu Yi counted three layers of grids from the top of the beehive, and inserted the prepared screwdriver into the seam between this grid and the one below.
Holding the screwdriver tightly, Xu Yi used the screwdriver to draw a circle around the seam, and then took the wire and strangled it into the beehive along the gap prying out by the screwdriver, and grabbed the ends of the wire with both hands and dragged it back along the seam.
When the wire was completely pulled back, the nest at the seam was cut off by the wire. Xu Yi moved the lattice connected by the top three layers a little, and directly moved it off the beehive.
Xu Yi held this piece of beehive and turned it over carefully, so that the honey on this section would not be spilled everywhere, and then directly covered the newly removed beehive cover on it to prevent the bees from coming to steal it. I hurriedly went to get a new gland, ready to put it on top of the nest box that had just finished cutting honey.
This method is completely typical of destroying the spleen to extract honey, unlike the kind of boxed honey will not lead to damage to the nest spleen, the wire is strangled on the nest spleen, all the way to cut over I don't know how many honey nests to cut, and the exposed cross section of the nest spleen has been covered with a layer of crystal amber honey.
Because of the smoke sprayed before, the bees in the beehive were quiet, but the strong honey fragrance emitted by the honey attracted all the bees in the box that had just moved into the space. These bees are like crazy, forming a cloud of black clouds and rushing straight towards this beehive! (To be continued......