No.32 Look for bees and big red bills
After returning to the bee farm and feeding some feed to the six piglets who were humming and chirping in the cage, Wang Ming saw that it was still early, went back to the room to get tools and put them in his backpack, and went into the mountains to look for bees.
This time, he continued to follow the stream, keeping an eye out for bees in the shallows and flowers along the water's edge.
The return path of the water bee is the easiest to lock on to the hive position.
As for judging by the bees flying on the flowers and plants, it takes a long time to see the flight path of one or two bees that have collected enough pollen or nectar to return, and the swarm of bees is messing around, which is easy to follow, and it is not advisable.
Usually, the bee digger will prepare some honey and spray it on the flowers and plants collected by the bees, wait for the bees to suck it, and then observe the bees' return path to the nest to determine the location.
Honey bees are very peculiar social insects, and one of them will become very excited when they find that honey is abundant, and will often bring a large number of collecting bees in the colony in a short period of time to collect them.
If two or more bee colonies discover this nectar source at the same time, they will often fight with each other in order to compete for it, and the battle is often fierce, especially when there is a shortage of honey from the outside world.
A large amount of nectar allows them to quickly absorb enough to speed up the return to the nest, and when the number of people coming and going reaches a certain level, it is immediately obvious that the bees are flying path.
The reason is actually similar to observing the homing of water bees.
However, compared with the two, the distance between the water bee and the hive is usually closer, while the honey collection is not necessarily. The distance of the hive and the range of the hive must be estimated by the height of the flight and the hovering situation during takeoff.
This method is in the deep mountains and old forests, where the vegetation is particularly luxuriant, you have to choose a relatively bright location or climb directly to the tree to observe, otherwise the agile bees will disappear without a trace in a blink of an eye, and it is difficult to grasp the flight trajectory.
This requires a lot of experience.
Wang Mingyuan, as a veteran, is a comprehensive use of various methods.
In order to avoid killing each other, he hardly used honey to lure bees with honey to find bees.
In fact, he can easily determine where a beehive might be present by looking at the terrain, sunlight, wind direction, and nectar pollen sources.
He can even keenly control the difference between the sound of the bee's wings vibrating when it flies and the changes in light and shadow when the bee flies.
In this regard, he is extremely talented.
It took less than two hours for Wang Mingyuan to find three swarms of bees on a journey less than three miles into the mountains.
A group is in a soil cave, a group is in a stone cave, and a group is directly in the bend of a big tree, a large group of bees protects the bee spleen tightly, directly exposed to the outside, for the so-called bright nest, I don't know how they came last winter.
To speed things up, this time, he put on an anti-bee hat and latex gloves to prevent bee stings, tied his trouser legs and cuffs tightly, put on gloves, and gently swept away the bees directly with his hands to selectively cut the honey.
This method is somewhat straightforward and crude.
For a while, the disturbed bee colony flew all over the sky, and the buzzing sound echoed in the valley, and the sound was terrifying.
The frenzied sight can be intimidating to the dense phobia and the faint-hearted.
Even if Wang Mingyuan himself thinks that he has excellent resistance to bee venom, he has to guard against it, it doesn't matter if he is stung by a bee for eight or ten times, but if he is stung dozens of times or hundreds of times, it will be terrible.
After all, no matter how good your physique is, there is a limit to what you can bear.
That's poison!
In particular, sensitive parts such as eyes, blood vessels, and nerves should be stung by bees, so be more careful.
(For those who are interested in dealing with bees, although fiddling with bees is called play, they also need to be careful, especially for novices and those who are allergic to bee venom.) )
In the evening, when he returned to the cabin in Zhangjiaao, Wang Mingyuan cleaned and cut the honey in the kitchen, and filled four bottles of nest honey, with about eight catties left.
The honey harvested by these three peaks is not much, and he plans to find some more tomorrow in another valley.
In recent years, the forest has been extremely well protected, it is the deep mountain old forest near the border, the traces of man-made destruction have long been covered, and the forest has become more and more dense, even wild boars and other animals that have been rare to see, dare to be very arrogant out of the old forest to destroy crops, the degree of danger inside can be imagined.
Wang Mingyuan, who had been chased by the wild boar, didn't want to experience the sharpness of its fangs, at least not as deep as before he was fully prepared.
The three groups of bees harvested eight catties, not that the three groups of bees did not have enough honey, but that Wang Mingyuan was reluctant to do it.
Anyway, you have to leave enough rations for Xiaomi.
The first taboo of beekeeping: avoid greed.
For the sake of honey, destroying the entire hive is really more than worth the loss.
It was also during this honey collection process that Wang Mingyuan noticed that the swarm of bees in the stone cave had already appeared on the spleen of the hive, which made him immediately realize that he was about to enter the bee period.
It is necessary to put the work of making beehives on the agenda as soon as possible, and only when you are well prepared can you sit back and wait for the bees to come.
Of course, he didn't forget to use his mobile phone to take a recording video of the surroundings and honey harvesting when he was looking for bees, and in a short period of time, fans on the cat's paw short video platform still have to rely on them.
At around eight o'clock the next morning, Boss Li, who bought the piglets, had already arrived when Wang Mingyuan was squatting by the small river in front of the house and digging a small pond for drinking water to brush his teeth.
He was wearing the same thick camouflage uniform as last time, still so rustic, without any shelf.
"Little brother, it's very fast!"
Boss Li looked around: "It's only been a few days, your road has been repaired, the house has been built, and even the wires have been pulled." ”
When I came here a few days ago, it was full of grass and dilapidated mud houses, but now it has completely changed.
"This mountain, this water, I was in a hurry to buy piglets last time and didn't take a good look, but now I find that it is more beautiful than the painting, a good place, I really want to find such a place to spend the rest of my life." Boss Li said with a sigh.
Wang Mingyuan quickly brushed his face, and washed his face with the cold water in the river, out of laziness, he was used to washing his face with cold water, and when he used hot water, he felt that his face was hot and uncomfortable.
"Boss Li said with a smile, you are a person who makes a lot of money and does great things, how can you look at this poor country and come to this inconvenient place to find guilt?" Wang Mingyuan said with a smile.
"What kind of money to make and do big things, serving livestock is not a beautiful difference, as far as my virtue, wherever I go, there are people who dislike it, for fear of being contaminated with the smell of feces and urine of livestock, and it is just a superficial look glamorous, if it is not for the old and the young, it costs money everywhere, I really want to learn from the ancients, find a place to retreat, in the big city, deal with all kinds of people, socialize everywhere, tired!"
When Boss Li said this, his face was full of helplessness, and after a long sigh, he smiled at Wang Mingyuan: "Take me to see the six little piglets." ”
Wang Mingyuan nodded, folded the towel and stuffed it into the plastic cup for brushing his teeth, put it on the windowsill of the wooden house, and led Boss Li straight to the corner of the half-torn earthen wall.
This is what Wang Mingyuan deliberately left behind when the excavator cleaned up last time and used it to temporarily place the piglets. It was still blocked with a door panel and a few stones, and a door panel was added to it.
At this time, the six piglets were huddled together and sleeping soundly, and when they heard someone approaching, they immediately jumped up.
Boss Li looked carefully for a while, made sure that there was no problem, went back to the car and took out a bag, and handed it to Wang Mingyuan: "Count, thirty-six thousand!" ”
Wang Mingyuan took it and took a look, good guy, inside were four stacks of brand-new red banknotes wrapped in strips of paper, one of which was slightly thinner.
This Boss Li is still so straightforward and so happy.
I really hope that the people I will deal with in the future will all be of this type, and there will not be so many twists and turns, how good!
Wang Mingyuan smiled: "What to count, Boss Li's personality, I can trust it!" ”
Boss Li patted Wang Mingyuan on the shoulder with a smile, and was about to use the pig cage placed here to load the piglets, but was stopped by Wang Mingyuan: "Boss Li, don't be busy, this point is from the county seat, you must have gotten up early, you shouldn't have to take care of breakfast, it's not too late to just eat breakfast at my place, last time you came, I didn't have anything here, I couldn't entertain, this time, let you be so hungry and busy, but it's my fault." ”
Boss Li hesitated, nodded and smiled: "Then I'm welcome!" ”