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Will bees collect honey on summer nights?

Bees rest at night and come out to collect honey during the day.

Hornets are flying everywhere in summer. How to prevent them from disturbing bees?

Hello everyone, welcome to read my article. Today is another day of popular science. Today I am studying how to prevent wasps from disturbing bees in summer when they are flying everywhere. July has arrived. The rising temperature has also brought about a decrease in the source of nectar and pollen. The food that wasps can easily obtain has decreased, so they have begun to turn their targets to bees. If prevention and control are not timely during this period, it is easy to cause the wasps in the bee farm to proliferate, causing heavy losses to the bee colony. Today I will share with you a method of preventing and controlling wasps that my friend has personally tested and found to be effective.

1. Make the key tools first

-- Wasp trap. The wasp trap is very simple to make. You only need to prepare a waste plastic beverage bottle (such as a large barrel of Sprite bottle), and use scissors to cut the bottle near the narrowing point to form a cylindrical bottom and a funnel-shaped top. Don't use the bottle cap, and put the funnel-shaped top bottle mouth down on the cylindrical bottom, fix it, and a simple wasp trap is ready.

2. Make attractants

Since wasps mainly feed on meat, fruit, and nectar, you can put these foods or liquids with a sweet and sour fermented smell in the trap as attractants. My friend gave me a suggestion for the ratio of attractants, which you can use as a reference: half a pound of sugar, half a pound of water, and three ounces of vinegar.

3. Place 1-2 wasps (dead or alive) in the trap

It is strange to say that, with the same traps and the same attractants, in a bee farm, some traps can catch many wasps, while some traps can catch none at all. After observing for a period of time, it was found that the waiting time is often the longest when catching the first few wasps, but as long as there are wasps in the trap, more and more wasps will rush to the same trap. We speculate that it may be that the first wasps will secrete some pheromones, or that wasps also need pioneers, and only after seeing companions in the trap will they feel more confident and bold to come in. Therefore, it is recommended to put 1-2 wasps in the trap, which can also serve as an attractant.

You can stun the hornets, then catch them and pile them up on the lid of the beehive. This will effectively prevent hornet infestations.

It needs to be managed regularly and removed in time so that the problem can be better solved.

You can use the slapping method, you can use a wooden board to slap the wasps near the bee farm. This can effectively remove the wasps.

It needs to be beaten, and some wooden boards can be used to beat it, which can effectively solve this problem.