412 results about "Honey Bees" patented technology

This application provides and discloses anti-parasitic, anti-pest or insecticidal nucleic acid molecules and their calmodulin target genes for the control of arthropod parasites and pests. This application further provides methods and compositions for the control and treatment of parasites and pests in Apis mellifera (honey bee) hives.

Compounds having unique antiviral properties found in mushroom mycelium and their analogs are extracted, concentrated, isolated or manufactured to create compositions useful in preventing the spread and proliferation of various viruses afflicting animals, particularly viruses harming humans, pigs, birds, bats and bees. Such compounds and compositions can be used individually or in combination with known medicines or natural products to improve health.

The invention is directed to water-dispersible, substantially homogeneous artificial diets and diet formulations which provide honey bees with a fully nutritious, complex mixture of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins in an easily digestible form. The diets of the invention support growth and development of honey bees, sustain brood rearing, and maintain hive vigor, and thus make possible the continuous rearing of bees using an artificial diet. The invention diets are useful for many purposes, and are particularly advantageous for providing nutrition sources for bees that are moved during commercial crop pollination or for other migratory beekeeping uses.

The present invention relates to honey eel dried bean curd and a preparation method thereof, and the honey eel dried bean curd is characterized by comprising the following raw materials by weight: 500-550 parts of soybean, 1-1.2 parts of pitaya flower, 2-2.3 parts of lotus leaf, 1.8-2 parts of momordica grosvenori leaf, 0.8-1 part of hangzhou white chrysanthemum, 1-1.2 parts of caragana korshinskii root, 1.1-1.3 parts of japanese banana flower, 0.8-1 part of plumbago zeylanica, 7-9 parts of jam, 5-6 parts of oat powder, 8-10 parts of honey, 60-65 parts of eel meat, 5-6 parts of raisins, 10-12 parts of coix seed, 3-4 parts of pork floss, 11-13 parts of gypsum and 40-50 parts of a nutritional health care fluid. The honey eel dried bean curd is added with eel meat, so that the honey eel dried bean curd is delicious in taste; the jam and the honey added in the processing process bring a trace of freshness and sweetness, in addition, the honey eel dried bean curd is also added with a variety of Chinese herbal medicines, so that the honey eel dried bean curd can achieve the effects of calming liver, improving eyesight, clearing heat, detoxifying, and promoting qi to activate blood by regular consumption, and is a leisure and healthy food.

A processing unit for solitary bees is utilized in a method of timely providing a sufficient number of bees for pollinating a flowering crop. The processing unit provides secure storage for the solitary bees at every stage of their life cycle, and provides precise control of environmental conditions to ensure that the bees complete each stage of their life cycle in the optimum state of health and viability, and to ensure that adult bees emerge in close agreement with predicted emergence. The processing unit provides for protection against parasites, predators and pathogens, and may provide for feeding and mating of the bees. The processing unit may be used with any type of solitary bee nest. The processing unit may be fabricated in modularized components, allowing for increased capacity as required.

The invention relates to a bee breeding intelligent monitoring method and system. The intelligent monitoring method for bee breeding comprises the following steps: real-time collecting the hive environment of each hive of the target bee farm, the honey yield, the bee colony image in the hive and the bee colony sound intensity parameter; data mining being carried out on the historical data respectively, setting the threshold of environmental parameters of the beehive, the alarm threshold of no honey fetching time and the alarm threshold of bee activity, judging the environmental parameters of the beehive collected in real time, calculating the time of no honey fetching and whether the calculated bee activity is within the preset alarm threshold; if not, a manual intervention prompt messagebeing sent to the terminal. The method and the system of the invention realize the intelligent monitoring of the environment in the beehive and the activity of the bee swarm through the technology ofthe multi-source sensor, the wireless ad hoc network, the artificial intelligence and the like, monitor the horizontal comparison among different beehives, timely discover the abnormal state in the bee breeding process, prompt the artificial intervention, and improve the bee breeding production efficiency and scientificity.

The invention provides a method for breeding honeybees and belongs to the technical field of animal husbandry. The breeding method comprises following steps: first, selecting a honeybee breeding ground, establishing beehives and eliminating honeybee mites by applying miticides to the beehive regularly; feeding with forage a during nights and additionally feeding with forage b during spawning period of queen bees; the forage a comprises following raw materials: honey, white sugar, banana juice, watermelon juice, sugar cane juice, apple juice, citric acid, edible salt and water; the forage b comprises following raw materials: pollen, soy flour and protein powder. The breeding method is safe and reliable; through breeding ground selecting, bee mite killing and scientific forage feeding, bee colony is gradually developed, wherein the forage is prepared from natural raw materials which can bring sufficient sugar and nutrient for the honeybees, promote well development of honeybees, reduce morbidity, increase the quality and edible safety of honey.

The invention discloses a method for breeding a high-quality mite-resistant bee species. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: (1) selecting breeding materials: screening a 'Jiangshan No.2' Italian bee with a high royal jelly yield, a French pure-bred Italian bee with excellent honey making performance and a healthy local Chinese bee species with excellent mite resistance for serving as an introduction object according to series indexes such as mite resistance, productivity, vitality and the like; (2) breeding a mite-resistant bee species: breeding a breeding male bee from Jiangshan No.2, breeding a Jiangshan No.2 virgin queen bee according to the requirements of bee biology and genetic breeding characteristic, and performing artificial fertilization hybridization with the bred breeding male bee to form a Jiangshan No.2 bee species with high production performance and disease resistance for serving as a male parent, wherein a pure-bred Italian bee with excellent honey making performance introduced from France serves as a female parent; and (3) checking and cutting a French Italian bee drone pupae every 7 days from breeding in spring till the end of breeding. The harm of bee mites to bee colonies can be avoided for beekeepers, the reproduction speed of the bee colonies is increased, and the yields and qualities of bee products are improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of insect breeding, and specifically relates to a beekeeping method controlling a bee crawling disease. The beekeeping method comprises the following steps: (1) the living environment of bees is managed, wherein beehives and honeycombs are subjected to spraying disinfection with a disinfectant every 3-8 days, wherein the disinfectant comprises the following components by weight; (2) a feeding method comprises the following steps: 30000-40000 bees are kept per beehive; 1000-1300g of feed is fed with a feeding device every day, and 2800-3800ml of water is fed with a water feeder every day, wherein edible salt with a mass percentage of 0.8-2.5% is added in the water. With the beekeeping method, effects of sterilizing, diminishing inflammation, repelling pests, promoting bee intake, clearing heat, detoxifying, enhancing immunity, enhancing disease resistance, promoting fast and healthy growth of bees, effectively controlling the bee crawling disease, reducing disease rate, and improving survival rate are realized. Also, the method has certain preventing and treatment effects against bee diseases and infections caused by other reasons such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, malnutrition and the like.

The invention relates to honey feed and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of feed. The honey feed comprises the following component raw materials in percentage by mass: 45-65% of a dried powder material, 18-38% of sugar and 7-27% of auxiliary materials, wherein the dried powder material comprises bee pollen; the bee pollen comprises rape pollen, tea flower pollen and first-type pollen; the weight ratio of the rape pollen to the tea flower pollen and the first-type pollen is (1-4):(1-4):(0.5-3); the first-type pollen can be selected from corn flower pollen, buckwheat pollen, broad bean pollen, astragalus smicus pollen and palm pollen; the auxiliary materials comprise water and a propolis solution. The preparation method of the honey feed comprises a step of mixing the dried powder material, the sugar and the auxiliary material, so as to obtain the honey feed. The honey feed is capable of completely replacing natural bee pollen feed, and is excellent in bee reproduction effect.

The invention discloses a method for planting bitter gourds. The method includes the following steps that (1) soil preparation is carried out, and small pits are dug in ridges; (2) fertilizer is placed in the pits dug in the step (1) and mixed with soil in the pits through stirring; (3) bitter gourd seedlings are put into the pits where the fertilizer is well processed in the step (2), then the fertilizer in the pits are buried through soil, roots of the bitter gourd seedlings are earthed up, and agricultural agents are sprayed on the roots of the bitter gourd seedlings. Gaps of the ridges are utilized to enable the bitter gourds to easily grow, the bitter gourds are easily spread when the bitter gourds begin to climb a melon shed support, the overlapping ratio of vine leaves is low, factors suppressing growth of the bitter gourds are reduced, the overlapping ratio of branches and leaves is low, meanwhile plant diseases and insect pests of the bitter gourds are reduced, the pollination rate of butterflies and bees is high, and therefore yield increasing of the bitter gourds is promoted; distribution density of branches and vines on the melon shed support is further lowered, wind resistance is higher, and harvest time of the bitter gourds can be prolonged.

The invention relates to the technical field of bee feeding, in particular to a Chinese bee feeding device with possibility of traditional feeding and movable-frame nectar fetching for many times, and a keeping method. The Chinese bee movable-frame feeding device comprises a movable hive bottom, a hive, a super and a movable hive cover, wherein a movable bee space frame is further arranged between the super and the hive and can be convenient to take out to allow a hive body structure to be capable of being changed; when the movable bee space frame is taken down, no up-and-down bee space exists between the hive and the super; when the movable bee space frame is mounted, an up-and-down bee space exists between the hive and the super; during bee keeping, when the nectar secreting amount of an outside nectar source is small, the movable bee space frame is not added after nectar is fetched, the beehive is turned over up and down to allow bees to freely build a comb and give birth downwards, and an old comb at the upper part becomes a nectar storage area; when the nectar secreting amount of the outside nectar source is large, the movable bee space frame is added, the beehive is not turned over, the upper part is used for production, and the lower part is used for reproduction; the bee reproduction is unaffected; bee diseases are few; a bee colony develops quickly; the nectar yield is high; the nectar fetching for many times can be realized simply; and the bee reproduction is unaffected.

The invention provides a method for identifying the honey of Apis cerana and the honey of Apis mellifera. The method achieves the purpose of identifying the two kinds of honey based on the differenceof alkane components in the two kinds of honey. Honey samples are extracted with petroleum ether and then detected via gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; and detection results show that the alkanecomponents of the honey of Apis cerana and the honey of Apis mellifera are different, the honey of Apis cerana contains C37 alkanes, and the honey of Apis mellifera contains C31 alkanes. It is confirmed that the component difference is only related to bee species after detection and analysis of a large number of samples, and the influence of plant sources on identification is excluded. The differential alkane components are stable in honey and are not affected by concentration processing and shelf life. The method of the invention is reasonable in design, convenient, quick and accurate in identification, and is applicable to both the identification of the sources of raw honey and commercial bee species and the identification of the honey of Apis cerana blended with a certain proportion ofthe honey of Apis mellifera.

The invention relates to the field of pollination and seed production of rapes, in particular to a method for pollinating and producing seeds of the rapes by osmia. The osmia is Japanese osmiacornifrons; and the method comprises the following steps: 1-2 days before the flowering of the rapes, moving beehives with bee releasing openings on one side into a rape seed producing field or a seed producing shed, wherein the distance between the adjacent beehives is 20-30 m and the distances between the lower end surfaces of the beehives and the ground are 1.2 m; and when the flowering period of the rapes is finished, finishing the pollinating task of the osmia, finishing bee rearing and collecting the bees into the beehives. Compared with the traditional bee pollination and seed-production, the method for pollinating and producing the seeds of the rapes by the osmia, provided by the invention, has the advantages as follows: (1) the seed producing efficiency is high and seed purity is good; (2) time and labor are saved once for all; (3) times are consistent and the operation is easy; and (4) the method is used for both scientific research and production, not only is suitable for requirements of large-area seed production fields but also can preferably satisfy small-area seed production sheds, in particular hybrid seed productions in the small-area seed production sheds; and difficulty problems of crossing, more labors, low seed setting rate and the like are effectively solved.

The invention discloses a Chinese bee fast queen separating method. Beehives are used for queen separation, each beehive in a square shape, edge plates and longitudinal plates are arranged inside each beehive, when brood combs in the beehives reach 4 to 5 frames, queen separation plates are used for clamping in the longitudinal plates for averagely separating the beehives into two spaces, 2 to 3 beehive frames are respectively placed onto the edge plate of the two places, the brood combs, honey combs and bees are averagely distributed, the original queen bees are placed at one side, one newly ovigerous queen bee is placed at the other side, at the moment, collecting bees fly into a left space and a right space of the beehives when returning to the beehives, and the number of the beehive frames can be regulated if the condition that the bees in one beehive are few, so that the bee number is averaged. When the Chinese bee fast queen separating method is adopted, the investment and special management measures do not need to be added, the original group can be developed into strong production groups, and in addition, the separated bee groups can also become strong production groups, so the goals of increasing the bee group number, enlarging the production capability and improving the bee product capability are achieved.

The invention relates to a production method for organic honey. The production method comprises the following steps: selecting an organic honey production base; planting organic honey powder source plants; making a long-term soil fertility, honey powder source plant protecting and crop rotation intercropping and inter-planting plan; establishing a bee box and building a honeycomb; performing organic swarm conversion on the common swarm; feeding organic swarm and preventing and treating plant diseases and insect pests thereof; dispersing the bees out of the bee box and uncovering the honeycomb; extracting honey through a honey extracting machine and centrifugally precipitating and removing impurities; sealing the barrel containing the bees and timely cleaning the honey taking device and the operation environment thereof. According to the production method provided by the invention, the factors influencing the organic honey quality in the whole production process of the organic honey are strictly controlled, a set of organic honey producing technical system is formed, the organic production of the honey is realized, meanwhile feeding and honey collection at the fixed point for the honey production are realized, the stability of the honey quality is promoted and the honey yield is increased.

The invention provides a high-yield breeding method of honeybees and belongs to the technical field of livestock breeding. The breeding method comprises the following steps: firstly, selecting a honeybee breeding farm and arranging beehives; applying miticides to the beehives at a fixed period to remove honeybee mites; feeding feed a in the nighttime of breeding the honeybees; additionally feeding feed b in a spawning period of a queen bee, wherein the feed a is prepared from the following raw materials: honey, white sugar, snow pear juice, Hami melon juice, grapefruit juice, lychee juice, citric acid, table salt and water; and the feed b is prepared from the following raw materials: pollen, skimmed milk powder and protein powder. The breeding method provided by the invention is safe and reliable; bee swarms can become large gradually through selecting the breeding farm, killing the honeybee mites and scientifically and reasonably feeding the feed; the feed is scientifically composed of the natural raw materials and can provide sufficient sugar and nutrients to the honeybees, so that healthy development of the honeybees is accelerated and the morbidity is reduced; and the yield and eating safety of the honeybees are improved.

The invention discloses a cultivation method for melons in a greenhouse. When field management is performed on the melons, bee pollination is performed. Bee pollination particularly comprises the steps that a swarm of bees enters into the greenhouse on the fifth day before flowers bloom, a nest door is opened on the next day, the bees try to fly, excrete wastes, and are supplementary fed with pollen and syrup in a mass ratio of 2:3, and the swarm of the bees are isolated for 2-3 days before entering into the greenhouse. According to the method, bee pollination is used, not only is a pollination success rate improved, but also problems of high cost, inconvenient management and big area promotion difficulty brought by manual pollination are solved. Soil quality is improved by soil conditioner, and the quality and yield of the melons are further improved. The melon cultivated by the method is high in sweetness, difficult to be burst, high in yield and good in taste. The fruit mature period avoids the concentrated marketing period of the melons in Xinjiang and other main producing areas, the market price is good, the economical benefit is remarkable, and the development prospect is wide.

The invention provides a box used for bee mating. The box comprises a box body provided with a hive entrance, a box cover, a queen excluder, a hive frame and a feeder, wherein the queen excluder, the hive frame and the feeder are arranged inside the box body, the volume of the box body is smaller than the volume of a bee box used for bee cultivation. A method for establishing a bee queen-rearing colony is suitable for the box used for bee mating with the volume smaller than that of the bee box. The method comprises the steps of dividing a bee colony into a plurality of mating colonies according to the principle that the number of bees is matched with the volume of the box used for bee mating, and placing the mating colonies into a plurality of boxes used for bee mating respectively. According to the box used for bee mating and the method for establishing the bee queen-rearing colony, the number of bees in the mating colonies can be reduced appropriately on the premise that mating and oviposition of a queen bee are guaranteed, so that the number of bees in the mating colonies adapts to the internal space of each box body, and then more mating colonies can be formed, more queen bees can be cultivated, the number of bees can be increased fast, and economic effectiveness can be improved for a bee keeper.

The invention discloses a method for inducing bees to pollinate among parents of male sterile line seed, comprising the following steps of: adding 0.05-0.1 part of plant secondary metabolites into syrup for feeding the bees; and feeding bee colonies which pollinates. Feeding at a time each day, wherein, feeding time is from 18:00 to 20:00 PM, and feeding quantity is 100-200 mg/ bee colony/day. Feeding is continued until the end of florescence, and the pollinating bee colonies are moved out of a big-arch shelter. The method can stimulate the bee colonies to firstly pay a visit to male parents and carry the pollen of the male parents to pay a visit to female parents, so as to realize the cross pollination among the parents. The induction function has no specificity, namely, any one of compounds has the function for stimulating the bees to crossly pollinate among the parents. The invention is not limited by the cross pollination between special crops and special parents, has simple method, obvious economic benefit and wide application prospect.

The present invention discloses a feed used for breeding of honeybees. The feed comprises the following components in percentages by weight: 20-24% of dry rape flower pollens, 18-22% of sucrose, 16-20% of milk powder, 12-18% of defatted soybean powder, 10-14% of distilled water, 5-8% of honey, 4-6% of calcium carbonate, 3-5% of magnesium sulfate, 3-5% of edible salt and 2-4% of compound vitamins.Starting from needed nutrients and appetite of the honeybees, the feed used for the breeding of the honeybees relatively well provides required nutrients and taste of the honeybees, enables the honeybees to grow rapidly, speeds up a honey production of the honeybees, reduces breeding costs of the honeybees, and improves breeding economic benefits of the honeybees. Besides, the produced honey is rich in nutrients, high in nutritional value and improved in quality.

The invention discloses an attractant capable of promoting the cross pollination of fruit trees and improving the fruit set percentage of the fruit trees. The attractant is characterized by consisting of the following raw materials in parts by weight: 3-4 parts of concentrated aromatic oil, 5-7 parts of inositol, 5-7 parts of folic acid, 60-100 parts of glucose and 180-220 parts of pure water. The attractant tastes sweet, has fragrance and can attract insects such as bees and butterflies in a fruit garden to help pollination. A farmland test shows that after the attractant is sprayed to the fruit trees for about 1 hour, a large number of bees and butterflies are attracted to collect honey and help the cross pollination; the fruit set percentage is improved by 30-50 percent; the labor and the time are saved; and the attractant is low in cost, easy to manufacture and convenient to use.

A method for quickly breeding bees specifically comprises the steps that a four-frame-beehive is prepared, the frame beehive is composed of a hive body, a partition plate and frames, wherein the hive body is divided into a left grid and a right grid by the partition plate, the number of the frames is four, the left grid and the right grid of the beehive body are each provided with two frames, and one queen bee is bred in each frame. Through the implementation of the method, four queen bees can be bred in the same beehive simultaneously, the queen bees are increased, and the breeding speed is more than two times higher than that of a traditional method. Meanwhile, swarming of bees in the beehive can not happen easily, the bees can not fly to escape easily, collected honey is more after bee swarms are united, and the sugar yield is more than twice higher than the traditional sugar yield. In addition, though the method is simple and practical, the effect is very obvious, application and popularization are very easy, and the generated economic benefits and social benefits are both very obvious.

The invention discloses a bee breeding artificial insemination culturing method, comprising the following steps: (1) male bee culturing: culturing fine-quality bee breeding by using excellent bee breeding, and culturing a virgin queen before sexual maturity of male bees; (2) semen collection: preparing a semen diluent, placing in a bottle, sterilizing in high temperature, placing the semen diluentin a collection pipe of a semen collector, scraping the semen and mucus of the male bees to the diluent by a sterilized glass rod, and placing the collector into a centrifuge tube of a centrifuge forcentrifugation so as to separate semen when enough semen is rinsed in the diluent; and (3) insemination: selecting the virgin queen of sexual maturity, placing in an anesthetic room, carrying out artificial insemination when the virgin queen is in a comatose state, and removing narcosis after insemination. The swarm cultured by the method in the invention is improved in the aspects of collectionability, disease resistance, stress resistance, oviposition rate, bee milk yield and the like, and the collected royal jelly and pollen yield are enhanced.