Chapter 528 Harvesting Honey and Killing Mine Bees
Chapter 528 Harvesting Honey and Killing Mine Bees
Author: Zhijianling
Chapter 528 Harvesting Honey and Killing Mine Bees
The next morning, Liang Kangbo and Meng Zhaohua arrived at Lu Lu's meadow around eight o'clock. At this time, Lu Lu had just gotten up.
Not long after, Zhao Yongke also came from home.
After asking the three of them, they all said that they had eaten breakfast. Lu Lu was not particular about it. He simply used last night's leftover rice to deal with it. Then he drove a car with a tool for cutting and shaking honey, and called the three of them to Xiushan Tun.
Picked up Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing and headed to the bee farm together.
When it was approaching ten o'clock, several people drove to Meizigou and saw Lei Xiaolin and Lei Xiaomeng having a great time chasing wild geese in the water meadow.
Lu Lu liked to see this scene.
It seems that the wild geese are constantly being disturbed, but in fact it is also a process of getting used to each other and these little wild geese.
When this kind of disturbance becomes a habit, these little geese are not far away from being tamed.
However, more often than not, two little girls are chased by adult geese.
With their wings and tail cut off, they are unable to fly away. Faced with this situation, the geese can only use their mouth to pinch people as much as possible.
The posture of several adult geese stretching out their necks to chase after a few people is still very powerful.
The two little girls obviously knew how powerful the wild geese were. They screamed and hid in the meadow. It wasn't until they saw Lu Lu approaching that the two sisters playfully climbed over the fence and ran towards Lu Lu and the others.
"Uncle, what are you going to do today? Can we help?" Lei Xiaolin saw Lu Lu and others moving the honey shaker and the honey bucket out of the car, and wanted to help.
"Uncle is cutting honey today, you guys...of course you can help!" Lu Lu rubbed the heads of the two little girls and said with a smile.
When Lu Lu said that he could help, the two little girls seemed very happy and asked repeatedly: "What can we do?"
"Here, can you help uncle filter the honey?"
Lu Lu didn't want to dampen the children's enthusiasm and filtered the honey. In fact, they didn't have to do anything. He thought about it and said, "You just need to use a small stick to pick out the bees that fell into the honey. These bees have worked hard for us."
You have to cherish the honey you make."
"Okay, okay!" They all seemed very excited to have something to do.
"Where are your parents?" Lu Lu then asked.
"My parents went to the fields to lead people to work. They said that the ditches in several places needed to be cleaned. Otherwise, if it rained heavily, the corns in some places would easily be washed away or flooded.
Take a good look." Lei Xiaolin replied: "He also said that he was going to lead people to repair the roads in several places."
Lu Lu nodded. In these aspects, Raymond was better at identifying problems and taking precautions.
"Did you get used to staying last night?" Lu Lu asked with concern.
"I'm used to it. It's much more comfortable than on Bird's Nest Island. You can also play with the deer. Uncle, those deer are not afraid of people at all. I can hug them!" The answer this time was from her younger sister Lei Xiaomeng. In her heart, she probably can follow him.
A close encounter with a deer is a very joyful thing.
"Just get used to it!"
Lu Lu was most worried about the two little girls, fearing that they would not adapt. However, looking at their current appearance, they were more curious about various things in the mountains, so he did not ask any more questions, but emphasized: "These
Although the mountains are in a forest farm, and there are people patrolling and guarding the farm at all times, there are still some wild animals that can't be avoided from breaking in. You guys live here, but you can't run around, otherwise your parents will worry. Also, those
Don’t climb over the fence, as you may fall or get your hands and feet pinched, it’s dangerous!”
"I know, uncle, my parents have told us that I promised my father that I will not run around, nor will I let my sister run around!" After all, she is the elder sister, and Lei Xiaolin is much more sensible.
Pu Guiying patrolled around the bee farm, hunting more and more mine bees.
Seeing Lu Lu and others arriving, they also ran down to help.
However, when they saw Pu Guiying and Meng Zhaohua getting together, and they were secretly flirting with each other, they knew that it was more than just helping.
After all the tools were moved out of the car, Lu Lu placed the honey shaker and plastic buckets in front of the bee farm hut, and asked everyone to put on windproof hats sewn with gauze, tighten their cuffs and trouser legs, even around their waists.
He also tied it up with a belt, and then led a few people up the hill and began to open the beehive and collect honey.
Among the few people, only Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing had done this.
Lu Lu took out the honeycomb filled with linden tree honey from the beehive, shook off the black bees protecting the honeycomb, lightly dusted off the remaining black bees with a soft brush, and then removed the bees.
Spleen asked Zhang Shaofeng and others to send it to Chen Xiuqing and Meng Zhaohua to cut off the cap with a honey cutter and put it into a honey shaker to shake the honey.
Originally, Lu Lu only needed to recruit a few people to harvest honey. Zhang Shaofeng and others had other things that were more suitable for them to do, such as going to the forest frog breeding farm to harvest the snakes, rats, etc.
You can clean up the animals that prey on forest frogs, and clean up the badgers around the corn field.
However, considering that a few people have little contact with bees, they need to know some basic things. Moreover, they need to be given a lot of basic information about what they need to do and how to do it in relation to forest frog farms and even sika deer farms.
Lu Lu decided to take advantage of the situation and lead him through the process of guarding and protecting.
Watching Lu Lu lift the lid of the beehive and lift the frame to shake off the black bees, the bees suddenly flew up and danced around the beehive. Even if Zhao Yongke and Liang Kangbo were experienced hunters, they would not see such a situation.
I couldn't help but feel my scalp tingling for a while.
Fortunately, Lu Lu explained to several people the precautions, which honeycombs should be taken out to shake honey, how to add honeycombs back, the excess spleens should be cleaned, and the remaining debris should not be scattered everywhere. The hive door
Pay attention to the precautions such as adjusting and preventing theft. After explaining it while doing it, everyone put down their guard and participated.
With constant familiarity, everyone began to become more agile.
A honey shaker simply didn't have enough time to process the honey spleens that were continuously sent by several people. Lu Lu simply asked Lei Xiaolin to go home and find two spoons, and called Zhou Cuifen and Zhou Fangjing's daughter-in-law who were in charge of the wild geese.
Here, I used a slightly barbaric way to get the honey - using a spoon to scrape the honey from the honey spleen directly into the basin.
With their participation, things have improved a lot.
Even so, hurriedly and slowly, it still took four full days to collect the honey from these one hundred and twenty swarms of bees.
The honey harvest was bumper. The spring bloom and bee swarming started early, and the rapeseed flowers and wild flowers in the mountains bloomed in May. In more than a month, the bee colony quickly grew, and then it was time to collect honey from the linden trees that began to bloom in June.
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There was no time to install enough honeycombs in the beehive. There were many honeycombs on the beehive that were also full of honey. On average, one hive of bees could extract more than 20 kilograms of honey. The 120 swarms of bees produced
As for honey, from this harvest alone, I received at least 2,500 kilograms of lime tree nectar, along with a lot of beeswax.
The honey is sent to the purchasing station for sale, which is an income of five to six thousand.
This result surprised everyone on the farm.
The most important thing is that in another twenty days, we can collect it again. Now when the lime tree flowers are in full bloom, there is still some time before the end. According to Lu Lu, the next time we collect honey, it will not be the same.
There will be less.
That is simply equivalent to telling them that if they raise more than a hundred swarms of bees and take care of them, they can become a household worth ten thousand yuan a year.
This is incredible income.
A monthly salary of around 40 yuan is enough to make many people excited.
This amount of money seems to be enough to pay many people a year's salary.
In the next two days, Lu Lu got a scope, some hen down and twine, and took care of the bee farm for two days.
When harvesting honey, bees are prone to theft. This is something that must be dealt with. What needs to be done is complicated, and Pu Guiying cannot teach it in a short time. The key is that if things are not handled well, the bee swarms will
A fight for honey could easily end up injuring both parties or even wiping out the group. This kind of thing can only be handled by Lu Lu himself. Otherwise, the losses will be too great.
The temptation of honey to bees is too great.
While taking care of her, Lu Lu also did another thing.
Those mine bees that came to catch black bees for food were really a big trouble. He tied the soft chicken feathers with fine linen threads, and specially asked Liang Kangbo and Zhao Yongke to kill two jumping cats. After skinning them, he used the meat to set more than ten
There are points that attract mine bees everywhere.
When mine bees come to hunt, they can easily find the fresh meat that smells like blood, then bite it and bring it back.
At first, when the mine bees come to eat meat, they will appear very frightened and fly up at the slightest movement. However, after they come here twice, they will become bolder and become very focused when chewing the meat, even if they use straw stalks to fiddle with it.
, just shake your butt to give way.
At this time, put the hemp thread tied with chicken feathers around the waist of the Mine Bee, and twist it with your fingers to hang it firmly on the Mine Bee.
This method is called superscript, and it is a very practical method!
By hanging the soft chicken feathers, the target of the returning mine bee can be more obvious, and it can also reduce the flight speed of the wasp to take the meat and bring it back to the hive, making it easier to track.
Lu Lu now had a scope in hand, which he used as a telescope, allowing him to directly watch the wasps fly far away.
Even with the help of a scope, Lu Lu scanned the trees on the surrounding mountains and found six Thunder Bees in the trees.
Perhaps it was because bees were raised on the Shilazi hill that many mine bees were attracted to build nests in the surrounding area.
In two days, Lu Lu commanded Zhang Shaofeng, Liang Kangbo, Chen Xiuqing and Zhao Yongke, and surprisingly found more than 20 swarms of mine bees.
Lu Lu was startled by so many swarms of bees. No wonder Pu Guiying was killing mine bees in the bee farm every day, and she was beating more and more mine bees.
The Sky Thunder Bee uses fire to burn it at night, while the Mine Thunder Bee uses a fuse to stun it directly in broad daylight and digs it decisively.
After two days, several people had two cans of Mine Bee bubble wine at home.
Before this, Liang Kangbo and others didn't know about Mine Bee Brewing Wine. After tasting Lu Lu's Mine Bee Brewing Wine and knowing its functions, they were all full of interest.
There are abundant flower and plant resources in the outside world, and bees can quickly stop theft.
Within two days, the bee colonies in the bee farm had stabilized and began to collect honey normally.
The mine bees in the surrounding areas were vigorously cleared away, and only one or two of the mine bees that came to the apiary to hunt bees were found occasionally. Pu Guiying was able to cope with it completely.
In the past two days, Pu Guiying and Meng Zhaohua completed the filtering of the honey, and the remaining honey residue and beeswax were taken home by Lu Lu. When they were free, they had to remove the remaining honey residue.
The honey is squeezed out and used for supplementary feeding at the appropriate time. The honeycomb and honey residue are also used to boil beeswax.
The nest foundation left by Sun Hanwei had long been used up, so Lu Lu was waiting for the beeswax to boil out and use it to make the nest foundation.
The matter is not over yet.
There are still more than 60 swarms of black bees collecting honey in the Lulu meadow.
Zhang Shaofeng and others naturally have to help with this kind of thing.
On the morning when I was collecting honey for Lulu Caodianzi, not long after I started, six dogs, far away from the swarm, began to bark.
Three people walked into Caodianzi along the road.
It was the brother and sister who had been rescued by Lu Lu and others in Wolong River. As for the third person, it was beyond Lu Lu's expectation.