Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 373 Beekeeping Guide
They say sour girls are spicy. Although the bayberries were still sour, Gao Mingcheng still picked two red bayberries and went back. He planned to share the joys and sorrows with many beauties.

However, a woman's appetite does change during pregnancy. If it were before, many beauties would be like him, with their facial features so sour that they would be deformed. But now, many beauties eat sour bayberries and feel quite good.

"If you like it, I'll pick it for you." Gao Mingcheng said immediately.

"Don't worry, Yangmei. You have to buy rice in the afternoon. We don't have much rice at home, and there are also bugs!" Many beauties would not say that when she opened the lid of the rice jar and saw the jar full of rice bugs, she was very happy. What a shock.

However, rice worms are harmless. As long as the rice is not moldy, the worms will not delay eating.

When washing rice, you only need to soak it in water for a while, the rice worms will float on the water, and just pour the water away.

But when part of the rice is eaten by insects, it naturally loses part of its nutrients and tastes bad.

It is easy for insects to grow in hot weather. When Gao Mingcheng came back last time, he did not eat a single meal at home. After such a long time, rice is naturally prone to insects.

"Okay." Gao Mingcheng responded, planning to buy rice after eating.

In the afternoon, he went to the cooperative and bought [-] kilograms of rice, and also bought some pastries and biscuits to keep at home for later use, so that if he got hungry, he could have a few bites right away.

After putting the things back home, Gao Mingcheng led the two dogs into the mountains.

This time he was going to check on the beehives.The industrious little bees contribute a lot of honey to him a year, so naturally he should pay more attention to it.

Last time, a box of honey was sick. He bought medicine and sprinkled it near the beehive. Now he just went to see if there was any new condition.

Although the honey he raises is obtained from the local mountains, the bee species is not unique to the local area, but Italian honey, or Italian bee for short.

The introduction of Italian bees into China can be traced back to 1895. It reached a climax from 1928 to 1932. Italian bees were introduced in many places. Nowadays, Chinese bees and Italian bees have become the mainstream bee species.

In the many mountains in Gaojia Village, there are naturally bees of Chinese bees. However, when Gao Mingcheng decided to raise honey, he decided to raise Italian bees because Italian bees are active in collecting honey and can harvest honey several times a year.

But Italian bees also have a disadvantage, that is, their disease resistance is not as good as that of Chinese bees.

Once a bee colony is weak, it is susceptible to illness and attacks from foreign enemies.

A hive of bees is a bee colony. A bee colony has only one queen bee and a dozen drone bees, and the rest are worker bees.

But drones are also miserable. They are the reproduction tools of the queen bee, because after mating with the queen bee, the drone's organs will remain in the queen bee's body, and its internal organs will also be ripped out. At this time, the drone will be very If it dies quickly, even if it survives for a while, it will be driven out of the nest by worker bees.

The most interesting thing is that the queen bee only needs to mate with many drones in a short period of time to absorb the reproductive genes from the drones. After that, she no longer needs to mate, but can continue to lay eggs.

Gao Mingcheng checked the beehives one by one. It was daytime and the bees were actively collecting honey. Most of the bees were collecting honey outside. Only when the honey sacs in their bodies were full would they fly back to the beehive.

After returning to the beehive, the bees will feed the nectar in the honey sacs to other bees. The nectar will be converted a little by invertase in each bee's mouth, and then fed to the next bee to continue conversion. After all the nectar is converted, It can be poured into the honeycomb of the honeycomb and stored.

Under normal circumstances, it only takes about a week for bees to collect honey to fill the honey spleen in the beehive. Once filled, the bees can secrete wax to seal the lid for brewing.

The brewing time is about ten days, that is to say, if the honey source is sufficient, the honey can be shaken once in about 20 days.

Gao Mingcheng opened the lid of the beehive and saw that there were many bees lying there on each hive. They were flapping their wings and making a buzzing sound. They seemed to be very busy.

In fact, they are really busy, because the bees evaporate the water in the honey spleen by flapping their wings, increase the honey concentration of the honey, and use digestive enzymes to decompose sucrose into simple sugars such as glucose and fructose.

After the honey is completely brewed, it will have a unique sweet taste and is also extremely nutritious.

Gao Mingcheng tried his best not to disturb these hard-working bees, but just checked the condition of his spleen.Because bees have a short lifespan, in order to maintain the vigor of the bee colony, the queen bee often lays eggs. As for whether the queen bee, the male bee, or the worker bee is laid, it actually depends on the size and number of spleens in the bee spleen.

Gao Mingcheng planned to divide the honey into two boxes, one for himself and one for the villagers who asked him for it. He promised to give it to him if there was any.

It has been 20 days since the last time I shook the honey. The honey in the honey spleen looks full and the color is beautiful, which means it has been brewed.

In this case, Gao Mingcheng plans to come to shake the honey tomorrow.

He stared at several bee colonies for a while and found three new queen bees. Two were already mature queen bees, and one was still a queen bee cocoon, still waiting to emerge from the cocoon.

Gao Mingcheng immediately brought the empty beehive over. He first moved the original beehive with two queen bees to the side. The new beehive was placed next to the original beehive with the nest doors facing each other. Then he moved the spleen, honeycomb and bees of the old beehive. Place them evenly in the two boxes.

The old beehive will naturally contain the old queen bee, and the new beehive will contain the new queen bee. In this way, the bees returning from collecting honey will fly into the beehives on the left and right sides. Over time, they will be divided into two colonies. When the number of bees on both sides is about the same , at this time you can distance the two beehives.

This is a very clever job. After all, he was the one who did the packing before.

There was no other beehive at home, so he brought an old wooden barrel over, opened a nest door underneath, and covered it with a wooden board to protect it from the sun and rain.

Such a simple wooden barrel can also be used for beekeeping. When the bees are separated from the box, they can be given away.

He also wanted to know if other people could keep bees well.

Gaojia Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and he exclusively occupies the Niuweiling side. Even if the villagers keep bees, they place the bees in other mountains, which will not affect his side.

If other people can raise honey well, it can be regarded as a way to make a fortune.

The first day Gao Mingcheng returned to the village was to divide the bees into boxes. The second day was to shake honey and check the growth of Poria cocos. On the third day, it was finally his turn to harvest the rice.

Last time he came back alone and didn't want to cook, so he could only go to the young lady's house to eat and drink. Now that many beauties have come back with him, he doesn't need to worry about the hygiene, food and feeding of poultry and livestock at home.

Although many beauties have big bellies, they are no worse at work than before. They just cannot stand for a long time, otherwise they will have a sinking feeling in their bellies.

Gao Mingcheng himself felt the benefits of having a wife. When he was harvesting rice in the rice fields, he met Gao Liang and others who were similar in age but still single, so he began to urge marriage.

"Gaoliang, my son is about to be born, and you don't even have a wife. You have to work harder!"

"Gao Yong, you have to work harder. Your children will all call me son and brother from now on!"

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Gao Liang and others felt very sad. Could it be that we don't want to marry our wives?It’s not like I don’t have money to ask for a wife!

But life is getting better day by day, and the money at home is getting more and more, so Gao Liang said: "Gao Mingcheng, when will you start collecting medicinal materials this year? After selling this year's medicinal materials, I can see you at the end of the year. "

When Gao Mingcheng mentioned the matter of collecting medicinal materials, he thought about it in his mind.

Collecting the medicinal materials was time-consuming and labor-intensive. He was afraid that he didn't have that much time, so he had to find someone to help. As for the candidate, he already had an idea.

　After reading a book called "Beekeepers in the Magical World", I suddenly realized that although I have been writing about beekeeping, I haven't written it carefully, so this chapter can be regarded as a popular science about beekeeping.I won’t mention it in detail after that.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)