106 results about "Bumblebee" patented technology

The invention provides a bombus factory production-breeding system, which comprises a feeding system and a dejection cleaning system, wherein the feeding system comprises a nutrient solution case and a beehive; the beehive is provided with a feeding device inside; the nutrient solution case is connected with the feeding device through a pipe; the vertical part of the pipe is provided whit a valve, while the horizontal part is provided inside with a level sensor which controls the closing and the opening of the valve according to the height of liquid level; the dejection cleaning system comprises an excreta receiving plate which is arranged under the beehive; and one end of the excreta receiving plate is provided with a guiding pipe communicated with a sewer. The bombus factory production-breeding system can realize the automatic feeding of bombus nutrient solution and convenient dejection cleaning, thereby saving manpower; meanwhile, the inside of the beehive is clean and sanitary so as to reduce the death rate of the bombus; moreover, because the operations of feeding and dejection cleaning are carried out outside the beehive, direct contact with bees and sting can be avoided. The bombus factory production-breeding system provides the possibility of realizing the large-scale factory production and breeding of bombus.

The present invention relates to a breeding technique of wild bumblebee, which is mainly suitable for artificial feeding and breeding of wild bumblebee and belongs to the technical field of wild insect breeding. The breeding technique of bumblebee is composed of the following steps: capturing a queen bee of the wild bumblebee, setting a simulation environment, inducing the queen bee to lay eggs, performing low-temperature treatment to the bee colony, carefully choosing queen bees of the bee colony, causing virgin queen bees to copulate, refrigerating the queen bees for breeding, raising the temperature for arousing the queen bees, etc. The breeding technique of wild bumblebee is characterized by the copulation of the virgin queen bees. The newborn queen bees which are mature in sexual development and drones are caused to fly for 4 hours in a small-size shelter which has enough light and is provided with flowering fruits or vegetables in a temperature of 25-30 DEG C and a relative humidity of 60-65%. The queen bees for breeding are refrigerated. The queen bees are stored in a refrigerating chamber of a refrigerator with a relative humidity of 60-75% and a temperature of 0-5 DEG C for causing the queen bees to enter a dormancy diapause state along with the simulation of natural temperature and humidity. The breeding technique of the wild bumblebee has the following advantages: high success rate of bumblebee queens, high egg laying rate, high herding rate of bumblebee, etc.

This invention relates to novel methods and compositions, wherein chopped dried apple or apple pomace can be used as supplementary lures for trapping wasps in the family Vespidae in combination with volatile chemical attractants, including (but not limited to) heptyl butyrate, acetic acid and isobutanol. Said vespid wasps may be in the genera Vespa, Vespula, Dolichovespula or Polistes. When formulated in a porous bag immersed in a water-detergent capture medium at the bottom of the interior chamber of an Oak Stump trap, either chopped dried apple or apple pomace can increase the capture of said vespid wasps several fold.

The invention relates to the field of bumblebee (Bombus spp.) handling. According to a first aspect the invention relates to a device, for confining bumblebee (Bombus spp.) workers, such as a nest box. The device comprises a number of barriers forming a number of chambers suitable for confining bumblebee workers. The barriers comprise a laminate comprising a celluloseboard, preferably solid paperboard, covered with a 10-500 μm thick layer of a material comprising a number of polymers. The polymeric material having a tensile strength of at least 25 MPa and an indentation microhardness of at least 80 MPa. Further aspects of the invention relate to the use of the laminate and a method for confining bumblebee (Bombus spp.) workers.

The invention relates to a pollination method for a purity-conservation Chinese cabbage breeding material. The method comprises the steps of: conducting soil preparation, harrowing, ridging, levelling, treading and top ridging; selecting a Chinese cabbage plant, removing old, diseased and rotten leaves, cutting away the upper half of the plant capitulum, dipping the root of the whole plant in a mixed solution of 100 times of carbendazim and chlorothalonil, then carrying out field planting to the plant in the middle of the ridge back, treading the root, and coating the root with a mulching film; covering the whole plant with an isolating net enclosure before the entering of the Chinese cabbage plant into an initial flowering stage, and inserting fixation rods on two sides of the isolating net enclosure respectively, fixing the isolating net enclosure on the fixation rods; when daily flowering quantity of the Chinese cabbage plant reaches more than 20, putting 2 bumblebees into the isolating net enclosure of each Chinese cabbage plant, then imbedding the mouth of the isolating net enclosure to the underground; after putting the bumblebees, spraying a mixed solution of 3%-4% of salt and 500 times of borax by mass every morning.

This invention relates to a nest box (1) for bumblebees that provides sufficient ventilation inside the nest box (1). The provided nest box (1) with a bumblebees hive (2) inside resolves the problems of insufficient ventilation, by being mounted with a ventilation panel (14), comprising ventilation holes (13) in size(s) that enable ventilation but at the same time bumblebees from passing through.

The present invention relates to the dissemination of biological control agents or other substances through the use of bees, in particular bumblebees. It relates to a disseminator device, installable in or in connection to the hive, and which contains biological control agents or other substances which are picked up, carried and disseminated by the bees when leaving the hive.

The invention provides a bumblebee pollination method for facility tomatoes. The method comprises the steps of: preparation of a bumblebee colony, greenhouse management, configuration of the bumblebee colony, management of the bumblebee colony and pollination-terminating management. The method is implemented by virtue of reasonable facility greenhouse environment regulation and control and reasonable water and fertilizer management before pollination and in a pollination period. The pollination rate of the obtained tomatoes is not less than 90%, the output and quality of the tomatoes are remarkably enhanced, and the operating method is simple and easy to master.

The invention relates to the technical field of artificial-propagation subculturing pollination, in particular to a bumblebee artificial-propagation subculturing pollination technology. The technology comprises the following steps: bumblebee growth environment, bumblebee pollination, new queen bee transfer, new queen bee growth environment, new queen bee feeding and new queen bee preserving. The technology has the benefits that after the technical scheme is adopted, the density of worker bees is increased by 2-3 times in unit space, and the pollination efficiency is increased by 2-3 times; vegetable pollination is more uniform, 86 percent of malformed fruits can be reduced, and the quantity of greenhouse commodity fruits can be increased by 11 percent; the technical scheme can gradually increase the number of worker bees in a bumblebee swarm, ensures flower pollination and meanwhile forms new bumblebee swarms; child worker bees continue to carry out flower pollination work; with the continuing, a batch of bumblebees are introduced and can be used for one year; continuously introducing the bumblebees from abroad is avoided, and the cost of import commodity bumblebees is reduced.

The invention discloses a pollination method for blueberries in a greenhouse. The pollination method comprises the following steps: (1) an anti-bee net needs to be mounted at a ventilation opening in the greenhouse; (2) beehives are arranged when bearing branches of the blueberries have flowers, and honeybees and bumblebees are used for pollinating; the quantity of the beehives moved into the greenhouse is determined according to the standard that one beehive is arranged every 400-800 square meters; (3) the honeybees and the bumblebees are put into middle ridge surface positions in a warm shed and a cold shed; and (4) the pollination time of the honeybees and the bumblebees in the greenhouse is controlled to 15-35 days. According to the pollination method, the honeybees and the bumblebees are matched to pollinate; the bumblebees have relatively low requirements on temperature, and the requirements on the temperature are not more strict than those of the honeybees; the bumblebees can go out of the beehives to pollinate in cloudy days so that the disadvantages of the honeybee pollination are made up; the price of the bumblebees are equivalent to that of the honeybees; and through the long-term tests and practices of an inventor, the yield produced by the combination of the bumblebees and the honeybees is remarkably higher than the yield produced by the single honeybee combination or single bumblebee combination.

The invention relates to an intelligent feeding method of a pet bumblebee, which comprises a stocking box, a nest box, a feeding controller, a cloud deck, an infrared camera, a server and a mobile intelligent terminal. An automatic feeding device and an automatic food throwing device are arranged in the stocking box, the cloud deck is fixed at one corner of the upper part of the stocking box, andthe infrared camera is arranged at one corner of the upper part of the nest box. And the mobile intelligent terminal receives a monitoring image of the cloud deck through the server and sends a feeding instruction to a feeding controller. An automatic water feeding device, an automatic sugar liquid filling device and an automatic pollen feeding device are remotely controlled by the mobile intelligent terminal, so that the automatic feeding of food needed by the survival of the bumblebee is achieved, and time and labor are saved; the problem that people cannot feed the bumblebee due to long time of going out of business or going out is solved; the collecting condition of the bumblebee in the stocking box and the egg laying and hatching process of the bumblebee in the nest box can be checkedthrough the cloud deck and the infrared camera, and the pet bumblebee is scientifically fed through the automatic feeding device.

The invention relates to a hornet trap, characterised in that it comprises: a metal chamber (1) that defines a cavity (2), a wall of the chamber being provided with opening means (3) through which at least one hornet can enter the cavity, the opening means (3) being sized such that electromagnetic waves with a given frequency present in the cavity cannot escape from the cavity (2), means (4, 5, 6) of detecting the presence of at least one hornet in the cavity (2), and an electromagnetic wave source (S) capable of generating electromagnetic waves at the given frequency inside the cavity (2) when a hornet is detected in the cavity a call means (A).

The invention discloses a method for increasing bumblebee commodity group propagation speed. The method comprises the following steps: preparing bee species and queen bee, preparing propagation environment and feed, inducing the queen bee to lay eggs, performing transfer box feeding to obtain a bumblebee commodity group, packaging the bumblebee commodity group, and adding worker bees into a feeding box in which the queen bee lives after inducing the queen bee to lay eggs and before performing transfer box feeding. The method for increasing bumblebee commodity group propagation speed provided by the invention shortens the time for propagating single queen bee into the commodity group to 55-65 days, which is shortened by 15 days in comparison to the ordinary propagation time of 70-80 days; the propagation cost is reduced by 20%.

The invention discloses a supporting beehive applied to bumblebee breeding and pollination. The supporting beehive comprises an outer box body and an inner box body, wherein the left side surface, the back surface and the front surface of the outer box body are respectively provided with air holes; the right side surface of the outer box body is provided with a foldable bench which is provided with a foldable plate; the bottom of the outer box body is provided with a backing plate; the central part of one side of the backing plate is provided with slotted holes; a storage cavity is arranged below the backing plate; an upper box cover is arranged on the inner box body; the right side surface of the inner box body is provided with a movable hive door; the inner side of the movable hive door is provided with an inlet-outlet opening; the outer side of the movable hive door is provided with a movable baffle plate; the central part located below the left side of the inner box body is provided with a feeding box; and the lower end of the inner box body is provided with a bottom cover which is fixed to the inner box body. The supporting beehive applied to bumblebee breeding and pollination provided by the invention can realize convenient transfer of a queen bee rearing colony and a breeding colony of bumblebees during breeding, and meets the survivable requirements of the bumblebee during the period of pollination.

The invention discloses a bumblebee robot abdomen swinging control method based on virtual reality and reinforcement learning, and belongs to the technical field of bug robots. The control method comprises the following steps: (1) establishing a Q meter according to a set bumblebee abdomen swinging target mode, wherein the Q meter records accumulated discount reward points obtained by every action in every abdomen swinging mode; and (2) monitoring the abdomen swinging mode of a bumblebee at the current time, and producing movements to control abdomen swinging of the bumblebee on the basis of the Q meter and according to the reward point maximum principle. The interactive mechanism between the abdomen swinging behavior of the bumblebee and a visual stimulator is established by an algorithm, and the circumstance that a large number of bioexperiments are carried out to obtain a relation between stimulation and behavioral response is avoided. The motion behavior of the bumblebee is induced by visual stimulation, an enhanced learning algorithm is used as a control algorithm, a loop-locked control system is formed effectively, and abdomen swinging action of the bumblebee can be controlled accurately.

The invention discloses a preparation method of traditional Chinese medicine and pollen feed for bumblebees. The method comprises steps as follows: strains are selected; a yeast culture medium is prepared; a Pediococcus pentosaceus culture medium is prepared; a basic culture medium is prepared; a fermentation culture medium is prepared; seeds are cultured; the fermentation culture medium is inoculated with 20 mL of cultured yeast strains and placed in a fungus incubator at the temperature of 28 DEG C for culture, the cultured fermentation culture medium is heated to the temperature of 50 DEG C, the temperature is kept for 3 h and then decreased to 32 DEG C, and then 40 mL of Pediococcus pentosaceus strains are added, cultured at the temperature of 32 DEG C for 1 d and then continuously heated to the temperature of 35 DEG C for anaerobic culture. The cost is reduced by 1 / 4, 56% of worker bees have the survival time of 10-12 weeks, the bumblebees have high activity and disease resistance, and the reproductive capacity of the bumblebees is 51.9% higher than that of bumblebees only collecting strawberry pollen and 18.5% higher than that of bumblebees which collect pollen independently and are directly fed with pollen in a supplementary manner in honeycombs.

The invention discloses a bumblebee I-stage artificial feeding box with a molasses feeder. The feeding box comprises a feeding box body, a top cover, a base, a nesting platform, a pollen feeding box and the molasses feeder, wherein a feeding observation opening is formed in the top of the feeding box body, the side wall of the feeding box body is provided with a molasses feeding insertion hole, top cover air-permeable holes are formed in the top cover, the table face of the base is provided with bar-shaped holes at intervals, the side wall of the base is provided with base air-permeable holes, the feeding box body is fixedly disposed on the table face of the base, the nesting platform is arranged on the table face of the base, the pollen feeding box is disposed on the table face of the base, and the molasses feeder is arranged in the molasses feeding insertion hole in the feeding box body. The bumblebee I-stage artificial feeding box with the molasses feeder is simple and convenient to operate, facilitates daily observation and checking, can effective improve the utilization rate of molasses feed, reduces scattering waste of pollen feed, is hygienic and clean and can improve efficiency of bumblebee I-stage artificial feeding, and ventilation in the feeding box is good.

The invention relates to a method for planting bitter gourds, and belongs to the field of crop cultivation. The method for planting the bitter gourds comprises the following steps of soaking bitter gourd seeds for 15-20 h, and then sprouting at 35-50 DEG C; planting sprouted bitter gourd seeds in furrows of a greenhouse, and when bitter gourd seedlings grow to 8-12cm, conducting grafting on the bitter gourd seedlings and pumpkin seedlings which is planted in the greenhouse as well; after grafted bitter gourd seedlings grow to 20-25 cm, constructing a frame for five-vine branch fixation; after branch fixation, utilizing bumblebees for pollination, wherein during five-vine branch fixation, lower branches of the bitter gourd seedlings whose vines have been guided onto the frame are cut down, and five remaining branches close to growth points are adopted as growing branches. The method for planting the bitter gourds has the advantages of being simple and easy to operate and capable of effectively prolonging a fruiting period and reducing the incidence rate; the bitter gourds planted according to the method is excellent and high in yield.

The invention relates to a pollination method for actinidia, in particular to a pollination method for actinidia arguta. The pollination method for the actinidia arguta comprises the following steps: culturing male actinidia arguta plants into removable columnar male strains; during a pollination period, moving the male actinidia arguta plants into an actinidia arguta production park, and placing the male actinidia arguta plants in the gaps among female actinidia arguta plants; simultaneously, placing bumblebees into the park, and starting to pollinate. The pollination method for the actinidia arguta has the beneficial effects that the number of the male actinidia arguta plants can be regulated freely, and the fullness of pollen of male flowers is ensured, so that the pollination rate is improved; the pollination effect of the bumblebees is better than that of conventional honeybees; the flowers of the actinidia arguta do not have nectar but only have pollen, honeybees like the nectar instead of the pollen, and the bumblebees like the pollen, so that the pollination rate is improved; the female actinidia arguta plants cannot be mixed with the male actinidia arguta plants, so that the management is facilitated; moreover, the male actinidia arguta plants are not planted in the production park for culturing, so that the yield per mu of the actinidia arguta is improved.

A multilayer artificial honeycomb is provided, the honeycomb comprises a plurality of combs; wherein each of the combs includes a plurality of working units working independently from each other; each of the working units includes an artificial frame and three layers of honey-storing rooms movably arranged in the artificial frame. The present application is flexible based on the combs construction property of different kinds of bees, suitable to the bees which store honey and breed in the same comb, such as Chinese honeybee, scoliid, bumblebee and the like. Therefore, the honeycomb produces honey all the year round, and is suitable for the regions in high altitudes, cold and having few nectar sources, and also suitable for mountainous areas and fields. The present application facilitates the popularization of breeding and application of Asian bees.

The invention relates to an efficient pollination method for apples by using large wasps and wall bees, which comprises the following steps: 2-3 weeks before the pollination, an apple tree is subjected to conventional disinfection and insect killing; the wall bees are released when 2-5% of the center flowers of the apple tree bloom; 1-2 days after the release of the wall bees, or when 5-10% of thecenter flowers of the apple tree bloom, a beehive with a big wasp group is placed in the apple orchard, and the big wasps are released to pollinate the apples. According to the invention, big wasps and wall bees are used to jointly pollinate the apples, and the big wasps and the wall bees mutually cooperate to influence the pollination, but do not kill each other, the addition of the big wasps not only increase the number of pollination insects under adverse weather conditions, but also change the foraging behavior of the wall bees, increase the feeding quantity among the travelling of the wall bees, thereby improving the pollination efficiency, improving the number of the seeds and increasing the number of the fruits.

Provided is a bumblebee trapper. Two anti-bee baffles are arranged at the lower part of a control handle of the trapper. Forceps feet of the trapper are designed to be in shapes of flat cylinders. Flat parts of the forceps feet are equipped with anti-skidding transverse stripes. The bumblebee trapper is provided with detachable semispherical forceps feet. Air vents are distributed in the semispherical forceps feet. Due to smooth surfaces of the forceps feet in the shapes of flat cylinders of the trapper, climbing force-bearing points of bumblebees are reduced. The anti-bee baffles at the lowerpart of the control handle can prevent bumblebees from upwardly climbing so as to protect an operator and preclude the operator from being stung. The trapper can directly clamp and fetch bumblebees distributed at corners of a beehive. As for bumblebees distributed on the surface of the beehive, the semispherical forceps feet are inserted at the front end of the trapper and catch the bumblebees. With the bumblebee trapper, the operator is prevented from being stung during a bumblebee-catching process. Therefore, convenience is brought for bumblebee breeding and sorting. The bumblebee trapper is featured by being simple in structure, easy in operation and good in application effect.

The invention provides an inhibitor for inhibiting worker bees in a bumblebee colony from spawning, and a preparation method and application thereof. The inhibitor comprises at least one of tricosane,pentacosane and heptacosane. Components of the inhibitor belong to main components of bumblebee queen pheromones, the inhibitor can effectively inhibit worker bee spawning behaviors in bumblebee colonies, has remarkable effects on prolonging the bumblebee breeding period and improving the bumblebee colony utilization rate, and is low in cost, high in cost performance and easy for practical application in bumblebee industrialized breeding.

The invention relates to the technical field of agricultural science and provides a bumblebee breeding box and a bumblebee breeding method. The bumblebee breeding box comprises a pollination breedingchest and a queen bee breeding chest; the pollination breeding chest includes a chest body, a cover plate and a flip; the first end of the chest body is provided with a first opening, and the flip isarranged at the position of the first flip; the interior of the second end of the chest body is provided with a clamp groove used for fixing the queen bee breeding chest; the flip is hinged onto the cover plate and is used for opening or closing the pollination breeding chest to enable the queen bee breeding chest to be in the pollination breeding chest, or out of the pollination breeding chest. By the arrangement of the pollination breeding chest and the queen bee breeding chest and the arrangement of the cover plate and the flip on the pollination breeding chest as well as the the arrangement of the clamp groove in the chest body, queen bees can breed in the queen bee breeding box first, the queen bee breeding chest can be arranged in the pollination breeding chest conveniently during the movement of the chests, the damage caused to beehive in the process of moving the chests is effectively reduced, and the efficiency of raising and breeding is improved.

The invention discloses a method and research system for controlling a crawling deflection behavior of a bumblebee robot on the basis of visual loop stimulation, and belongs to the technical field ofinsect robots. The control method comprises the steps of 1, imparting electrical impulse stimulation to a lateral forebrain anterior visual tubercle of the bumblebee robot, and recording data information of behavioral response; 2, analyzing a quantitative relationship between electrical pulse stimulation parameters and the behavioral response to obtain a control instruction set; 3, transmitting electrical pulse stimulation to the lateral forebrain anterior visual tubercle of the bumblebee robot according to the control instruction set, and controlling the bumblebee robot to generate a specificcrawling deflection behavior. Through the electrical stimulation of the anterior visual tubercle of the bumblebee robot, control over the crawling deflection behavior of the bumblebee robot is achieved, and a new stimulation site is provided for the behavior control research of the bumblebee robot.

The invention belongs to the technical field of plant crop pollination, and particularly relates to a biological pollination method for fruit and vegetable crops in a facility. According to the biological pollination method for the fruit and vegetable crops in the facility, bumblebees are introduced as pollination entomophyte in the flowering period of the crops, the crops are pollinated by utilizing the advantages of the bumblebees, and the bumblebees are fed by supplementing a specially prepared nutritional agent in the pollination process, so that the pollination enthusiasm and the pollination efficiency of the bumblebees can be effectively improved, the fruit setting rate of the crops is obviously increased, the malformed fruit rate is obviously reduced, and the method is suitable foragricultural planting popularization.

The invention provides a formulation preventing the collapse of insects of Apidae family, especially bees and bumblebees, especially as a result of a syndrome specified as CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) and the use thereof. Moreover, the formulation increases vigour in a bee colony. The invention belongs to the field of apiary and protection of environment from negative effects of using insecticides in agriculture and fruit culture.

The invention discloses a method of pollinating strawberries in greenhouse with bumblebees, wherein the method includes the steps of (a) planting the strawberries in a sunlight greenhouse with the plant distance being 15-20 cm, the line spacing being 20-25 cm and the row spacing being 50-60 m; (b) paving a black mulching film and performing general water and fertilizer management during the growth process; and (c) during the blossom period of the strawberries, allowing the bumblebees to enter the sunlight greenhouse by 50-70 per mu for pollinating the strawberries, wherein the door of a bumblebee beehive is arranged towards south. The bumblebee beehive is arranged at the middle of the sunlight greenhouse and should be arranged higher than the top of the strawberries. In the invention, the strawberries are pollinated by means of the bumblebees, so that pollination quality of strawberries can be improved and fruit setting rate is increased. In addition, the method enables the strawberries to be bigger in size, brighter in color and better in taste. The beehive is placed in the sunlight greenhouse, so that pollination on the strawberries can be completed almost without management, thereby reducing manual work and cost.

The invention provides a Chinese cabbage selfing breeding method and belongs to the technical field of vegetable breeding. The method comprises the following steps: selecting proper Chinese cabbage varieties; treating Chinese cabbage seeds; fertilizing and performing soil preparation; seeding; watering and fertilizing; spraying saline water; and releasing bees and harvesting seeds. According to the method, the 2% saline water is sprayed for destroying the incompatibility of Chinese cabbage, pollination of the incompatible Chinese cabbage is promoted, and the selfing retaining purity of the Chinese cabbage is improved; a beehive of Colbert bumblebees is arranged beside a Chinese cabbage field and is used for Chinese cabbage pollination, the Colbert bumblebees have long mouthparts, can attentively collect pollen and pollinate the Chinese cabbage in a certain area as having an underdeveloped information exchange system and are conductive to pollen release of the Chinese cabbage by virtue of large acoustic shock, and thus when pollination is carried out by the Colbert bumblebees, the pollination rate of the Chinese cabbage is improved, the yield is improved, time and labor are saved, and the labor cost is reduced. According to the method, homologous strain self-pollination or pollination of heterogeneous strains in a same line can be performed, the selfing breeding efficiency is high, and the cost is low.

This invention provides a safe and effective product for extinguishing of insects (particularly Wasps, Bees and other flying insects). The device comprises a spray can or other spraying type device containing glue which can be sprayed in conjunction with an insecticide which is effective against nesting and / or other flying insects. When the user approaches a hornet's nest the individual can spay this device at the opening of the hole which will effectively seal the hole (entrance to the nest) and kill the inhabitants. Typically (prior to this invention) one would spray a wasp nest and run for their lives in hope of not getting stung. This device will saves thousands or lives and will be a significant advance in the art of preventing medical and loss of work and other cost due to bee and wasp stings.