Chapter 436: Splitting the Bees
"There must be more than one queen bee in this beehive! Didn't we leave a queen bee down earlier, but there will definitely be other queens in this hive in the future!
If the queen bee shows up and we don't find it in time, it may run away with the bees, or it may drive the old queen bee away......"
But because he had broken the old queen bee's wings before, it couldn't fly away, so it could only be the new queen bee, or he artificially transferred the old queen to another beehive.
Wu nodded as if he didn't understand, and then asked, "Then do we have to go and see if there is a queen bee in it now?" ”
"If it's getting late today, I'll go see it tomorrow morning." Uncle Fu said, "Don't worry, old lady, I will take care of these bees, even if they divide the bees, I will find a way to bring them back." ”
Can you bring it back after dividing the bees!?
Wu and Aunt Chen felt very hung when they heard this, but seeing that he was so determined, and now that he didn't divide the bees, the two of them didn't ask much.
But the next morning, just after they had breakfast, someone from the village came to say that their bees had run away!
As soon as Uncle Fu and Dongfang Yanhe heard this, they directly took the guy and went to the kumquat field.
By the time they got into the field, the bees were flying all over the sky.
As soon as Uncle Fu saw this situation, he immediately went to check the beehive, and saw that most of the bees in the bellows had run away, so he said, "The owner, there must be a new queen bee."
You go and prepare a beehive first, and I'll try to get them down, and only after they have fallen can I catch the queen bee. ”
Dongfang Yanhe nodded when he heard this, "Okay, then I'll go to Uncle Hong's side to buy a new beehive." ”
This Uncle Hong is the only beekeeper in Xiantang Village.
His family will also make their own beehives, and if Dongfang Yanhe makes it himself, it will be too late at all, so he can only buy it.
He went to buy beehives, while Uncle Fu observed the movements of those bees for a long time, and after seeing that they landed on the kumquat tree not far away, he quietly waited for Dongfang Yanhe to come back.
However, Ye Chuliang and Wu were a little worried, "Will this bee not be able to catch it?" ”
"No, it won't." Uncle Fu said, "If you get the queen bee's wings for a while, you can keep these bees." Otherwise, it's okay to just strangle the new queen bee......
But it turns out that there are too many bees in the beehive, and it will be better if you divide the beehive. And isn't the old lady planning to keep more bees? The sub-box is the best choice......"
Although there will be fewer bees in the original beehive after the box is divided, as long as it takes a while, there will be more.
Ye Chuliang thought about it when he heard this, and asked with some uncertainty, "Then won't these bees leave after the box is divided?" ”
"Not anymore. When the queen bee is there, they won't run. Now they fly everywhere because the queen bee is there......
Now that they've gathered, it's a sign that the queen bee has stopped on that tree. ”
As he spoke, Dongfang Yanhe and Uncle Hong both came over.
When Uncle Hong saw that the bees were all gathered together, he said, "In this way, it will save a lot of trouble, otherwise it will be even more troublesome to chase after those who scatter water and sand everywhere." ”
Sprinkle water!?
Sprinkle sand!?
Wu was puzzled when he heard this, "Why do you want to do this?" ”
"Because sprinkling water and sand will make the bees think it's raining, and then they will find a place to stop.
Otherwise, you don't know how long you'll have to chase them! But fortunately, it was found early, and if it had been found late, the bee might have really run away. ”
Uncle Hong has been keeping bees for several years, so he actually knows a lot about these bees, "It's just been about half an hour since the bees were divided, if people can find them and dispose of them properly, then it's no problem."
If no one cares, they'll really run away on their own......"
If you run away, you basically can't get it back.
Uncle Fu nodded when he heard this, and said, "Then you can take a hand and help us get this bee down, right?" ”
"Okay! I came here because Yanhe Kid called me to come and help! Uncle Hong smiled and said, "You don't have to worry, those bees are not scared, and they will be able to solve it soon!" ”
As he spoke, he took the beehive and walked with Uncle Fu to the kumquat tree, and the two of them cooperated, one put the beehive under the bee pile, and the other pulled the branch.
Uncle Fu shook the branches, and most of the bees fell into the beehive!
It was at this time that Uncle Hong directly covered the beehive!
After the beehive was covered, Uncle Hong waited for a while, and finally saw that the hour was almost up, so he opened the lid.
This time it is opened, and the big guy can clearly see the situation inside.
The dense bees crawled around the box layer by layer, and some of them immediately took a few steps back when they couldn't see such a scene.
Ye Chuliang herself is not afraid of this, on the contrary, she is now quite curious about what they are going to do next, "Uncle Fu, Uncle Hong, is the queen bee in there now?" ”
"It's inside!" Uncle Hong said and bent down to find the queen bee, "You have to find it, otherwise it may still have to run next time." ”
"What does the queen bee look like?" Ye Chuliang felt that these bees were all about the same, and they didn't look much different.
If she wanted to find it, she really couldn't recognize it.
As soon as Uncle Fu heard her words, he knew that she was curious, so he smiled and said, "This queen bee is much bigger than ordinary bees!"
When you find a big one, you'll be able to determine it......"
Not long after saying this, Uncle Hong said that he had found it.
He grabbed the queen bee with his bare hands, and finally knocked off one side of her wings, and then threw it back into the hive.
"That's pretty much it now." Uncle Hong said, "But you should also pay attention to the original beehive, there may be other queen bees in it."
If there were, we would have to die. This one beehive is divided into one time, and it's almost there. If you divide it again, it's too little, and there won't be much honey coming out in the end......"
Uncle Fu himself knows this, "I didn't notice it!" I'll have to take a look at it these days, and if there is a queen bee coming out, I'll have to kill it quickly. ”
"Yes! I see that these bees in your house are strangely good-looking, and this kumquat is blooming, and there are many flowers around it. Maybe it'll be another one. If there are more bees by then, there is no fear of dividing them. ”