You ask how is American beekeeping different from China? The main things I see are:

1. Cage bees are betrayed in the United States as the start of a colony. Post offices can also mail cage bees and queen bees.
2. The great industrialization of the production of queen bees in the United States. It seems that no beekeeper in China sells more than 100,000 queens a year, right? Is there 10,000? Seems few. A queen bee queen in Hawaii exceeds 100,000 queen bees every year. (I went to see it secretly).
3. The bee colony management is very different. The bee farms here are generally 20-30 colonies, rarely exceeding 40. Many in China are 1-2 hundred colonies together, but it is estimated that China needs 3-4 colonies to reach this side. The intensity of a bunch.
4. The United States only shakes mature honey (90% has been blocked), and shakes it in special places (in Michigan, if you sell honey online or in stores, you need the state government to check health. If you sell it at home, it does not exceed each year 2500 pounds, you don’t need to). Will not shake in the fields.
5. Shake honey has a complete set of equipment, from cutting honey cover to filtering. I always thought that there was no honey concentrator (I was told recently there is also!)
6. There is a legal requirement for the labeling of honey in the United States, and it cannot be without a label. If something goes wrong (such as the honey is polluted or poisonous), it is necessary to find who sells the honey immediately (accountability!). So you need a phone, or address, or website on the sign.

Let me introduce the first one today.

The swarm death rate in the United States has exceeded 50% in recent years, and winter in Michigan has been particularly sad. The winter here is about 6 months, and the temperature sometimes changes quite a bit. For example, 28 degrees yesterday and 10-14 degrees next week, the bees have no way to collect honey. I know that several beekeepers have a loss rate of 50-100% each year. Then you need to buy a cage bee (also called a pound bee) in spring. The recent price has been $ 120-140 for a three-pound bee, plus one queen bee. There are also two pounds of bees, which are 15 dollars cheaper. Yesterday was 5.1. Labor Day. I visited Liu Zhiyong (Professor of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine) for a full day of work and returned home at 7:30, which is better than getting off work at 9:00 the day before yesterday.

Installing cage bees is the first step in American beekeeping. Let your uncle give you detailed instructions step by step.

1. The day before yesterday (that is, 2018.5.1.), Teacher Liu and I first prepared beehives. Each beehive has a base, a box, an inner cover, and an outer cover. There are 9 nest spleens in the box, preferably 2 spleen honey. But we are not big enough. At 3 o’clock I found that there were only about 10 inner covers! Must drive to buy. It’s too late to post. Drive for an hour to the Dadan Fathers and Sons Company in Albion, MI.

2. Dan is an old company, they have everything. In addition to the American Bee Magazine, they also published the famous “Beehives and Bees” (Beekeeping Bible).

3. Finally bought more than 1,000 dollars. He said he gave an inner cover ($ 10.30 each), but did not find one more yesterday? $ 14 for gloves! Bee clothing 99.95 or 66 (sell it to me for 3 yuan). Great difference with domestic! I can consider importing them.

4. The old man helped load the car. My old truck is almost 20 years old! I bought a new truck this year, and it is estimated that it will be a few weeks away.

5. This kind of base has a barbed wire, and there is a plastic sheet underground to check the number of giant bee mites that have fallen. But I don’t know if that board can keep warm during the winter. On the way back, I saw a recovery soldier at the traffic light saying that he was homeless. I was soft and gave him 5 knives. The green light was already on. I reached out and gave him money while driving. His hand was so fast that he could not get it. Say thank you. There was no time to shoot him first.

6. Two people painted the base into a beautiful sky blue at 6-9 in the evening

7. The Green Hand!

8. I didn’t take a picture at the best time.

9. Yesterday David came at 9 o’clock and later at 12 o’clock, but it came at 11 o’clock. There was a problem with the university paying him money, and the promised money was not in place. In the end, I gave him $ 2,700 first, let him use it first, and returned it to me after receiving a college check. He sent the bees, and each was 10 knives lower, so I have to be nice to others.

His Trailer is not big, it is estimated that it can hold 500 cage bees. This is after giving me a few more.

10. 40 cage bees on my broken truck. $ 108 each. The other 15 were bought by a friend. I transported 35 groups to Florida, but I ran a batch and died a lot. The original plan was to have him return 35 groups to me in the spring. [I forgot why I did n’t buy it from him this year, it may be too late last year. This year I want to install Cage Bee 3 weeks in advance. The reason is that it was previously thought that it was still snowing, and the bees had nothing to collect, which means that they were not installed. I don’t think so now. It was snowing outside and honey was inside the bees. By this time, a group of worker bees have been raised! It is estimated that acacia can be collected! ). So this year spent a group of 120 dollars (without reducing my price) and went to another one (unfamiliar, he does not reduce the price of MSU!)].

11. Spray a lot, a lot of syrup, 50% sugar water. Every bee is wet and cannot fly. So I didn’t bring a bee cap. It’s so cool! It was 28 degrees yesterday. A little hot at 3 pm.

12. Open a cover.

13. The canned syrup comes out better after falling down.

14. Take out the queen bee cage.

15. Remove the cork from the sugar side. Can’t take the other one! Then the queen bee will come out immediately and be attacked and killed by the worker bees. Because these bees were made on Sunday 1, the queen bee was in it for less than 24 hours. It usually takes 4 or 5 days for the worker bees to accept the queen bee.

16. Then use a nail to make a hole in the sugar, taking care not to hurt the queen bee. In this way, the bee can eat sugar in about 24 hours, open the channel, and the queen bee can come out.

17. Squeeze the queen bee cage between the two nest spleen and put it in a little. This will squeeze the beeswax so that the space of the nest spleen will not be too wide (too wide will have a spleen).

Exam question 1: Why is the hole punching up? 2: Why does the queen bee cage want this direction? The other direction will take up less space (turn the queen bee cage 90 degrees)? [This year’s installation is very cold. The king cage is placed in the middle of the beehive]

18. Shake desperately. Shake it, shake it until Xiaomi asks for your forgiveness. :)

19. Use a spatula to gently separate the bees and let them go between the bees. (Some photos are automatically transferred to you by WeChat, I don’t know why).

20. The bee is not too thick, so you can cover the inner cover.

21. Attach the cover and finish!

22. This has changed again. This white board can be inserted under the net. Let’s see what these small grids do (Test Question 3).

23. The last 10 groups are not finished yet. There are 22 groups of bee farms, about two of them spent 1.5 hours.

24. The wooden stab in the old beehive wounded the bee. In the end I was stabbed about 10 times with my nose, mouth, neck, and the rest on my hands. Without any swelling! Runny nose for a long time. .