A method for detecting honeybee cleaning behavior

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for detecting bee cleaning behavior. The method comprises the following steps: step 1) opening a beehive cover, finding out a brood comb, and finding out a brood combregion in a red eye period; step 2) marking M sealed broods; step (3) artificially making the bee pupae in the M sealed broods become dead pupae, but not destroying the sealed broods; step 4) after waiting for N hours, recording the number of dead pupae which are not cleaned out in the M sealed covers; and step 5) calculating the cleaning rate. If the cleaning ratio is more than 80%, the speed ofcleaning the dead pupae is very high. In a breeding project, swarms with a relatively high cleaning speed and swarms with a relatively low cleaning speed often need to be found out, selection can be carried out only after differences are found out, and genetic progress can be achieved only after the selection is carried out. The swarms with a relatively high cleaning speed and the swarms with a relatively low cleaning speed are found out, and the bee species with a high cleaning ratio and a high cleaning speed have high anti-mite ability, and can be further applied to a breeding project of anti-mite bee species.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of honeybee cleaning behavior detection, in particular to a method for detecting honeybee cleaning behavior. Background technique [0002] Bees are economically important insects. The social and ecological benefits of beekeeping are obvious. The role of bees on the sustainable development of the ecological environment is mainly reflected in the pollination of flowering plants. Ensuring the reproduction of flowering plants and realizing the diversity of plants and pollinating insects is an important condition for maintaining ecological balance and sustainable ecological development. At present, there are more than 8 million bee colonies in my country, the annual output value of bee products is more than 12 billion yuan, and the contribution of pollination is about 50 billion yuan. [0003] Explanation of terms: [0004] Cleaning behavior: Bee colony cleaning behavior of sick, dead and unhealthy bee pupae. ...

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Problems solved by technology

Too much medicine will harm the newly emerged worker bees and cause chemical residues in bee products; too little medicine will not achieve the effect of removing mites

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