Chapter 194: Starting a Bee Farm

As soon as these words were spoken, the scene immediately became silent.

Luo Weixiong and Deng Hualiang looked at Shao Ruian with shock and anger, as if they couldn't believe that he would actually threaten them with the matter of returning to the city.

If Shao Ruian reported this to Sun Maocai, they would be criticized by the public and their case would be recorded in the files, which would put them in big trouble in the future.

Not to mention whether you can return to the city in the future, your personal reputation alone will be irreparably affected.

Thinking of this, no matter how angry they were, they could only force themselves to endure it.

【ha! 】

When Shao Ruian saw Luo Weixiong and Deng Hualiang, who were enduring humiliation and bowing their heads to show weakness, he suddenly felt relieved and almost couldn't help laughing out loud with a smug look on his face.

If he had known this would happen, why would he have kept talking nonsense?
Originally, he didn't want to make things so tense, but it was Luo Weixiong and Deng Hualiang who were so disrespectful to him and insisted on making him lose face!
In that case, he doesn't want to pretend anymore.

Anyway, he now has Sun Maocai as his backer, so even if someone is dissatisfied, he can only keep it in his heart.

Then, he would use the strategy of winning over and dividing them, taking in a few obedient ones as dogs, and then find an opportunity to use the remaining few as an example to scare the monkeys. It wouldn't take long before he could make these little scoundrels obedient.

By then, with the support of these male educated youth, he might be able to compete with Li Guoqiang.

It is even possible to snatch the position of director of the apiary from Li Guoqiang.

Thinking that he might soon become the director of a bee farm, become famous, get promoted and make money, and reach the pinnacle of his life, he finally couldn't help laughing.

Just as Luo Weixiong, Deng Hualiang, Wen Jianguo, Wang Zhiyong, Zhao Dabao, Liu Jianjun and others were all enduring Shao Ruian's laughter with a frustrated look on their faces, Li Guoqiang's figure suddenly flashed onto a big tree, and then looked at the tree hole in front of him with a look of joy.

Generally speaking, beehives in the wild usually appear in tree holes, rock caves and earth holes.

No matter where they are, the fumigation method is basically used to capture the fish.

Here, take the simplest soil hole as an example:

First of all, the first step is to clean up the weeds and debris around the bee caves, and then carefully check how many entrances and exits the bees have. In addition to leaving one main entrance and exit, all other entrances need to be blocked with mud.

The next step is to use a smoker to spray smoke into the hole at the remaining entrance and exit, forcing the bee colony to leave the honeycomb and gather into a bee swarm inside the nest. Then use a shovel to slowly dig the bee cave from the outside to the inside, finally exposing the hive.

The third step is to wait until the hive is exposed, then use a knife to cut off the honeycombs one by one, and pay special attention to protecting the pupae and egg combs. When the bee colony leaves the comb and forms a cluster, use a bee broom to sweep the entire cluster into the collection box.

It should be noted that if the bee swarm appears too large, the part with the queen bee attached should be swept into the collection box first to prevent the queen bee from escaping.

In addition, if the queen bee accidentally escapes and takes off, you can pause for a moment and wait for the queen bee to fly back to the bee colony before continuing to capture it.

As for the tree holes with moderate difficulty and the rock caves with the highest difficulty, the capture processes are basically the same.

The only difference is that when tree holes and rock caves cannot be dug, the bees have to be forced to crawl out of the nest, and then the honeycombs with honey can be used to lead the bees into the collection box.

Soon, Li Guoqiang cleaned up the debris near the tree hole in front of him and blocked the two smaller side holes.

Then, he lit a small pile of hay directly in the small world. When thick smoke came out, he collected the smoke and squeezed it into a ball, then quickly took it out and threw it into the tree hole.

The next moment, the smoke ball suddenly exploded, filling the tree hole with thick smoke, as if the tree hole was on fire.

Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but feel fortunate that he had his own little world. Otherwise, it would be quite troublesome to get the thick smoke into the tree hole!

Next, he took out a square collection box from his little world, turned it upside down in a suitable position close to the nest entrance and slightly above it, and waited patiently for the bees to fly out of the tree hole.

But he waited for a long time, and in the end only saw a dozen bees running out.

He was not surprised by this because, as we all know, bees are social insects and everything revolves around the queen bee.

As long as the queen bee does not escape, the other bees will not run away easily.

The same is true in reverse. As long as you catch the queen bee, you don't have to worry about other bees being unwilling to follow.

When the smoke in the tree hole became less, Li Guoqiang immediately threw a smoke ball into the tree hole, and then continued to wait patiently for the queen bee to fall into the trap.

In fact, the queen bee, also called "queen bee", "queen bee", "female bee", etc., is a female bee with fully developed reproductive organs, developed from a fertilized egg.

Usually each bee colony has only one queen bee, which is about 1/3 longer than that of a worker bee, and has a longer abdomen with a stinger at the end, no wax glands under the abdomen, and wings that can only cover half of the abdomen.

In addition, the queen bee's feet are not as strong as those of the worker bees, and there are no pollen baskets on the hind legs, which serve to attract bees.

Therefore, if you want to identify the queen bee, it is very simple. You just need to compare their sizes.

I waited quietly for a while, and soon a big bee surrounded by a group of bees suddenly flew out of the tree hole, and then flew into the collection box attracted by the honeycomb.

Li Guoqiang seized the opportunity and pressed the switch outside the collection box to close the partition inside the box. In an instant, the queen bee was locked at the bottom of the box, leaving only small holes on the partition that could only allow worker bees and drones to pass through.

In this way, there is no need to worry about the queen bee escaping. You just need to wait patiently for the worker bees and drones in the tree hole to fall into the trap.

Not long after, Li Guoqiang saw that no bees had flown out of the tree hole for a long time, and he realized that almost all the bees in this nest had entered the collection box.

So, he didn't waste any more time and directly put the collection box into the small world. Then, he instantly got ten extra nests of bees, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

At this time, after three consecutive days of unremitting efforts, he had successfully captured 500 hives of bees and collected more than honeycombs.

These beehives not only contain more than 100 kilograms of honey, but also many bee pupae and bee eggs, enough for him not to worry about the initial consumption of the apiary.

What's more, he also obtained ten times more bees and beehives through Jin Die.

This means that he already has 253 beehives and more than 5500 beehives.

The honey contained in these beehives alone weighs nearly 1200 kilograms, which is almost enough to complete this year's production target.

Of course, he couldn't be so stupid as to keep the honey for the task. In addition to consuming some honey to feed the bee colony, he planned to squeeze out the remaining honey when he had time, keeping some for himself and sending some back home.

You know, these are all wild honeys stored over the winter, which are the most nourishing for the body. If you keep them outside, they are good things that you may not be able to buy with money, so naturally they should be kept for your family to enjoy.

Seeing that it was getting late, he did not search for the hive anymore and directly used the small world to teleport back to the apiary.

According to his previous promise, he only needs to collect thirty beehives from the mountains within the next month.

However, that was because he didn't know how many beehives there were in the mountains, so he didn't make too many promises, so as to avoid being embarrassed when the time came.

Now that he already has so many hives of bees, there is no need to be so conservative. He can simply shock the other villagers and more than triple the target.

In other words, he plans to take out 100 nests of bees and raise them in the apiary in the next month.

As for the remaining 153 hives of bees, he planned to release them all into the deep mountains to roam free.

In this way, even if something irreversible happens to the apiary, he will have the confidence to turn the tide and change the future.

After figuring out what to do next, he started staying in the apiary, cutting wood to make beehives.

In the blink of an eye, it was evening.

After most of the day's hard work, he successfully made six beehives and also obtained sixty beehives.

In this way, together with the previous 44 beehives, the total number has almost reached half of the target, and only one more day of work is needed.

Afterwards, he did not go home directly. Instead, he took out ten beehives and placed them in the designated locations. Then he took out ten nests of bees from the small world and put them into the beehives, and began the work of domesticating wild bees into domestic bees.

Generally speaking, a bee colony only needs to stay in one place quietly for two or three days to be successfully domesticated.

During this process, special attention must be paid to prevent the queen bee from escaping.

If there is no queen bee in the bee colony, a new queen bee must be introduced in time, or a mature queen cell can be introduced.

In addition, the beehives of the wild bees that have just been captured must be placed in a suitable location, otherwise it will be difficult for the bee colony to stabilize.

There are three main requirements: the first is abundant nectar sources, the second is a quiet environment, and the third is few enemies.

Of these three requirements, except for the first one which is a little uncertain, the other two are not a problem.

At that time, if there is really not enough nectar source, we will have to re-select the location of the apiary.

This is also one of the main reasons why brigade cadres such as Li Guoqiang and Xu Guangfu did not choose to build adobe houses in the apiary as soon as possible.

In addition, supplementary feeding and reward feeding can also be carried out during the domestication process.

Among them, there are three main purposes of supplementary feeding. The first is to encourage the bee colony to stabilize in the beehive, the second is to ensure that there is enough food in the bee colony, and the third is to stimulate the worker bees to secrete wax and build combs.

The purpose of reward feeding is to stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs and encourage the worker bees to raise larvae. The specific method is to feed them once every evening with sugar water or dilute honey water until a large number of new worker bees emerge from the hive.

However, for Li Guoqiang, these two feeding methods are unnecessary, because he has enough bee honeycombs and there is no need to make sugar water and dilute honey water.

Soon, he put a certain amount of bee honeycombs into the ten beehives according to the size of the bee colony.

The number should not be too much or too little.

If too many bee combs are put into the nest, there will be too many larvae and too few feeding bees, which will cause malnutrition and cause a considerable number of new bees to have congenital disabilities and become crawling bees.

Moreover, in the hot summer season, since there are more bees than combs, it is difficult for worker bees to fan the heat to drive away all the heat. Excessively high room temperature will shorten the lifespan of worker bees and cause heat damage to larvae.

In spring and winter, it is not conducive to keeping warm, which can cause cold injuries and easily lead to diseases.

Similarly, if too few bee combs are invested, there will be a shortage of food and shelter, which will lead to slow development of the bee colony and may even lead to premature death. Supplementary feeding and reward feeding will be needed in a timely manner.

Li Guoqiang naturally would not make these rookie mistakes. He completed the task in a short while and allowed the bee colony to slowly stabilize.

After carefully checking the condition of the bee colony and finding no problems, he leisurely left the apiary and walked towards his home.

At the same time, it was time for the production team to get off work.

Amid the whistles, each production team put down their work and gathered at the edge of the field, waiting for the production team leader and production accountant to come and register work points.

Among them, most of the production groups looked relaxed, except for the male and female educated youth groups, who all looked listless, like eggplants hit by frost, wilted.

Fortunately, the locations where the various production teams gathered were some distance apart, otherwise they would definitely become the focus of the entire audience.

However, even so, they had no way to escape the scrutiny from the production team leader and production accountant.

Xu Guangfu and Xu Yu'an stood in front of the group of female educated youth. Seeing how dusty and dirty they all looked, his brows immediately furrowed unconsciously.

Later, when they learned that the female educated youth group had only completed less than three quarters of the production task, their brows furrowed even more.

You know, when assigning tasks, they had already taken into account the capabilities of the female educated youth group and reduced the amount of tasks.

But they didn't expect that even so, the female educated youth group still failed to complete the production task on time.

After some questioning and confirming that the female educated youth group was not deliberately being lazy, Xu Guangfu and Xu Yu'an discussed in a low voice and then directly credited 80% of the work points to the female educated youth group.

The situation of the male educated youth group was even worse. Since they were all men, they did not receive any special care like the female educated youth group.

Coupled with internal strife, in the end only less than two-thirds of the production task was completed.

When Sun Maocai brought Sun Zhongping over, Shao Ruian sold out Luo Weixiong and Deng Hualiang first in order to avoid being criticized.

(End of this chapter)