Special collecting cage for queen vespa cerana and queen vespa mandarinia in bee breeding farm

Abstract

A net-shaped barrel body is provided with two circular rings made of iron wires, after an iron wire is welded between the upper portion and the lower portion of the two circular rings, an iron wire net is wrapped along the two circular rings, meshes of the iron wire net are in a square shape with the side length of 6.3 mm, and joints of the iron wire net are connected at the iron wire positions. Two cross-shaped iron wires are welded on one circular ring, so that a net-shaped cylinder body is formed; a plastic protective net with the hole diameter smaller than 6.3 mm is fixed to the top of the net-shaped barrel, and a rainproof transparent rubber pad is installed above the beehive protective net. The hanging hook penetrates through the rainproof transparent rubber pad and the plastic protective net to be installed at the intersection of the two iron wires at the top of the net-shaped barrel. The inner side of the bottom of the net-shaped barrel is fixedly connected with the outer side of the bottom of the conical nylon soft net, the conical nylon soft net is arranged in the net-shaped barrel, the conical nylon soft net, the plastic protective net at the top of the net-shaped barrel and the rainproof transparent rubber pad form a cage body, and a queen bee inlet and outlet is formed in the top of the conical nylon soft net; a fruit tray is hung at the bottom of the inner side of the net-shaped barrel through hooks.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The utility model relates to a special capture cage for wasp queens, in particular to a special capture cage for Vespa velutina nigrithorax queens and Vespa mandarinia queens in a bee farm. Background Art

[0002] The biological characteristics of wasps are as follows: Wasps are social insects. After rapid reproduction in summer every year, a large number of queens and drones are bred in the wasp colony in autumn. After they reach puberty and mate, the drones will soon die. The mated wasp queens will look for a suitable environment to overwinter. All the worker bees of that year will die before winter. When the average temperature in early spring of the next year reaches above 14 degrees Celsius, the overwintered wasp queens will collect and live alone. As the temperature rises and the physical strength of the wasp queens gradually recovers, they will find a suitable environment to build nests, lay eggs and rear larvae (go out to collect while performing the work of worker bees) alone. When more than a dozen of the worker bees bred by it are fully capable of going out to collect, the queen will truly become a queen only responsible for laying eggs. Therefore, the most suitable period for capturing wasp queens is the period when the wasp queens go out to collect while performing the work of worker bees; looking for small nests newly built by queens for nest removal and relocation breeding. Although this method has a lower cost, it is difficult to find wild wasp nests and the difficulty of nest removal is relatively large; no matter which method is selected, it is necessary to capture wild Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia. At present, when capturing Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia, plastic bottles, woven baskets or nylon bags are mostly used to hold Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia. The individuals of Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia are easily injured during the capture process, and it is difficult to release Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia from the equipment for holding wasps, which easily leads to the death of Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia. Therefore, the current wild Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia capture and collection equipment has the disadvantages of unstable structure and difficult use, and the capture survival rate is not high; at the same time, when raising, a place far away from bees can be selected for raising, which can effectively avoid the harm of wasps to bees and maintain the relative ecological balance. Content of the Utility Model

[0003] What the utility model needs to solve is the technical problem of avoiding damage to the individuals of Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia and improving the capture survival rate of Vespa velutina nigrithorax queens and Vespa mandarinia queens. At the same time, it also solves in advance the problem of moving the wasps that are about to build nests or have initially built nests in the bee farm to a non-bee breeding site, greatly reducing the harm of wasps to bees (because wasps are natural enemies of bees), and maintaining the ecological balance well.

[0004] To solve the above technical problems, the utility model adopts the following technical solutions:

[0005] Special capture cage for queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia in beekeeping farms, comprising a net barrel body 1, a plastic protection net 2, a rainproof transparent rubber pad 3, a hanging hook 4, a conical nylon soft net 5, a queen bee inlet and outlet 6, a hanging hook 7 and a fruit plate 8; two rings are made of iron wire for the net barrel body 1, and the two rings are respectively welded to both ends of an iron wire. A wire mesh is wrapped along the two rings, and the mesh holes of the wire mesh are squares with a side length of 6.3 mm. The joints of the wire mesh are connected at the iron wire. Two cross-shaped iron wires are welded to one of the rings to form a net barrel body 1; a plastic protection net 2 with a pore diameter of 6.3 mm is fixed on the top of the net barrel body 1, and a rainproof transparent rubber pad 3 is installed above the plastic protection net 2 of the net barrel body 1; the hanging hook 4 passes through the rainproof transparent rubber pad 3 and the plastic protection net 2 and is installed at the intersection of two iron wires at the top of the net barrel body 1; the inner side of the bottom of the net barrel body 1 is fixedly connected to the outer side of the bottom of the conical nylon soft net 5, so that the conical nylon soft net 5 is arranged inside the net barrel body 1, and together with the plastic protection net 2 and the rainproof transparent rubber pad 3 at the top of the net barrel body 1, it forms a cage body. The top of the conical nylon soft net 5 is provided with a queen bee inlet and outlet 6, and the pore diameter of the queen bee inlet and outlet 6 is 1.8 - 2.0 cm; a fruit plate 8 is hung at the bottom of the net barrel body 1 through three hanging hooks 7.

[0006] The beneficial effects of adopting the above technical solution are:

[0007] Compared with the prior art, the cage body provided by the present utility model is used within a range of 2 kilometers around beekeeping farms in spring to capture individual queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia, reducing the harm of wasps to bees in summer. The cage body is made of plastic net and wire mesh, with a lighter weight, a more stable structure and better air permeability. In particular, the set pore diameter allows misdirected bees to escape smoothly through the mesh holes of the cage body (avoiding harm to the bees), and at the same time, it can also prevent the captured individual queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia from being injured; by setting a fruit plate and placing fruits with high sugar and juice content such as pears in the fruit plate to attract the queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia to fly into the fruit plate and freely feed. When they are about to fly away from the fruit plate after feeding, since the outer periphery 3 - 5 cm horizontally at the mouth of the fruit plate is the lower part of the inner side of the conical nylon soft net of this device, according to the phototactic and upward habits of wasps, and because there is a rainproof transparent rubber pad at the top of this device, the queen wasps will pass upward through the queen bee inlet and outlet into the cage body, thus achieving the advantage of easily capturing the queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia, avoiding damage to the individual queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia, and greatly improving the capture survival rate of the queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia. Description of the Drawings

[0008] Figure 1 It is a schematic structural diagram of the special capture cage for queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia in beekeeping farms of the present utility model.

[0009] In the figure: 1 - mesh cylinder, 2 - plastic protection net, 3 - rainproof transparent rubber pad, 4 - hanging hook, 5 - conical nylon soft net, 6 - queen bee entrance and exit, 7 - hook, 8 - fruit plate. Detailed implementation mode

[0010] To make the purpose, technical solution and advantages of the present utility model clearer, the present utility model will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are only used to explain the present utility model and are not used to limit the present utility model.

[0011] A special capture cage for the queens of Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia in a bee farm, as Figure 1 shown: It includes a mesh cylinder 1, a plastic protection net 2, a rainproof transparent rubber pad 3, a hanging hook 4, a conical nylon soft net 5, a queen bee entrance and exit 6, a hook 7 and a fruit plate 8; The mesh cylinder 1 is made of iron wire to make two rings, and the two rings are respectively welded to both ends of a wire. A wire mesh is wrapped along the two rings. The mesh holes of the wire mesh are squares with a side length of 6.3 mm. The queens of Vespa velutina nigrithorax and Vespa mandarinia cannot fly out and escape through the mesh holes of this size, while the accidentally entered bees can escape smoothly. The joints of the wire mesh are connected at the wire. Two cross-shaped wires are welded to one of the rings to form a mesh cylinder 1; A plastic protection net 2 with a pore diameter of 6.3 mm is fixed on the top of the mesh cylinder 1. A rainproof transparent rubber pad 3 is installed above the plastic protection net 2 of the mesh cylinder 1. The rainproof function is to prevent rainwater from diluting the attracting food in the fruit plate during use, and the transparent function is to enhance the light irradiation on the conical nylon soft net 5; The hanging hook 4 passes through the rainproof transparent rubber pad 3 and the plastic protection net 2 and is installed at the intersection of two wires at the top of the mesh cylinder 1; The inner side of the bottom of the mesh cylinder 1 is fixedly connected to the outer side of the bottom of the conical nylon soft net 5, so that the conical nylon soft net 5 is arranged inside the mesh cylinder 1. It forms a cage body with the plastic protection net 2 and the rainproof transparent rubber pad 3 at the top of the mesh cylinder 1. The top of the conical nylon soft net 5 is provided with a queen bee entrance and exit 6, and the queen bee entrance and exit 6 can allow the attracted queen bee to enter the cage body when attracting the queen bee. When the queen bee is attracted, remove the fruit plate, turn the conical nylon soft net downwards, and quickly rotate the entire cage body 180 degrees. Place a wasp turnover cage or a nesting box on the queen bee entrance and exit 6. According to its upward habit, the queen bee will automatically climb out without being harmed. The pore diameter of the queen bee entrance and exit 6 is 1.8 - 2.0 cm; The fruit plate 8 is hung at the bottom of the mesh cylinder 1 through three hooks 7. Using three hooks is to make the hanging more stable, thus avoiding the problem that the fermented fruit juice is easy to flow out.

[0012] When in use, since both the queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia come out to forage in spring after hibernation, in spring, the capture cage is hung on a sunny branch in the wild through the hanging hook 4, and then the fruit plate 8 is filled with fermented pears. Both Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia queens like sugary fruits. Therefore, the queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia will fly into the fruit plate 8 to forage through the gap between the edge of the fruit plate and the inner side of the cylinder body. After feeding, they will crawl along the inner side of the conical nylon soft net 5 to the queen import and export 6 set at the top, enter the net-shaped cylinder body 1, and complete the capture of the queens of Vespa velutina and Vespa mandarinia in the wild.

Claims

1. A special cage for collecting and capturing queen bees of black-chested wasp and golden-ringed wasp in bee breeding farms, characterized by: The invention comprises a mesh cylinder (1), a plastic protective net (2), a rainproof transparent rubber pad (3), a hanging hook (4), a conical nylon soft net (5), an entrance and exit for queen bees (6), a hook (7) and a fruit plate (8); the mesh cylinder (1) is made of two circular rings by iron wire, the two circular rings are respectively welded to the two ends of an iron wire, a wire mesh is wrapped around the two circular rings, the mesh of the wire mesh is a square with a side length of 6.3 mm, the wire mesh joint is connected at the iron wire, two iron wires in a cross shape are welded on one of the circular rings to form a mesh cylinder (1); a plastic protective net (2) with an aperture of 6.3 mm is fixed on the top of the mesh cylinder (1), the plastic protective net (2) of the mesh cylinder (1) ) is installed above the mesh cylinder (1); a hanging hook (4) passes through the rainproof transparent rubber pad (3) and the plastic protective net (2) and is installed at the intersection of two iron wires at the top of the mesh cylinder (1); the inner side of the bottom of the mesh cylinder (1) is fixedly connected to the outer side of the bottom of the conical nylon soft net (5), so that the conical nylon soft net (5) is arranged inside the mesh cylinder (1) and forms a cage with the plastic protective net (2) and the rainproof transparent rubber pad (3) at the top of the mesh cylinder (1); a queen bee entrance (6) is provided at the top of the conical nylon soft net (5), and the aperture of the queen bee entrance (6) is 1.8-2.0 cm; a fruit plate (8) is hung at the bottom of the mesh cylinder (1) through three hooks (7).

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