Chapter 97 Domesticizing Wild Bees

Author: Riding ant to the market

Chapter 97 Domesticizing Wild Bees

I guess the python meat is sold at Shanwai, so it shouldn't be sold for much money.

After all, there are many people in the Bashu area who do not eat snake meat, and the snake meat is white meat and has no oil and water.

So even though he got more than 10 kilograms of meat, Han Xiaokang did not plan to go to the mountains to sell it specifically for this.

In the past two days, cousin Liu Hongdong and others have a lot of things to do, and in addition, Aju’s small thatched hut, there are still many details that need to be improved.

So Han Xiaokang, who was sleeping soundly, began to clean up the yard early the next morning.

In front of the courtyard is a large open space, which is estimated to be less than one acre. According to Aju's idea, this courtyard is mainly used to grow rapeseed, soybeans and the like.

Rapeseed seedlings can be used as vegetables. When they grow up, they can harvest rapeseed oil.

And interplanting some soybeans can improve the soil.

In fact, it is called nitrogen fixation, but Aju doesn't know these scientific theories, but she has practical experience.

Large pieces of land are used to grow rapeseed and soybeans, and those edges can be made into small vegetable gardens, where some seasonal vegetables are grown.

According to Aju’s plan.

When I am not too busy in the future, I will also sort out the open space behind the hut and try to see if I can plant some sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn.

You can also plant banana trees on the edges and corners.

In the wetlands by the stream, some taro are transplanted. If more plants are planted, they can be made into vermicelli, so that they can be preserved for a long time.

However, before starting to open up the land today, Han Xiaokang had to settle the wild bees first.

So next, Aju was busy cleaning clothes at home, cleaning up the house, cooking, and taking care of the hen that hatched eggs.

Zhou Min was busy digging the ground in the yard and clearing the weeds.

Han Xiaokang found a piece of big wood, used a chisel to hollow it out, and then put on the set of weird-headed protective clothing.

Take the made simple beehive and the package containing wild bees to a place quite far from the yard.

Han Xiaokang was about to take out the wild beehive and put it in the log beehive for feeding.

At this time, Liu Hongdong and Zhou Jian came from afar.

"Xiaokang, what are you doing early in the morning?"

Liu Hongdong's eyes were sharp-eyed, and he saw the beehive held in Han Xiaokang's hand from a distance, "Oh, are you planning to tame wild bees? Don't put them in first. I'll help you with these things. I'm not professional."

"Zhou Jian, go back and take my disinfectant alcohol and the animal husband's medical box."

Liu Hongdong has no other hobbies.

He likes to tinker with these things about breeding. "If you want to tame wild bees, there are several very important steps, and you can't miss them. Xiaokang, you can start driving and wear the same clothes as an atomic bomb engineer. Where can the wild bees bees bee?

Is that scary?"

Liu Hongdong twisted his butt and squeezed Han Xiaokang aside.

"Because of ignorance, you will do it recklessly, and if you do it recklessly, you will have bad luck!

If you touch the habits of wild bees correctly and do not act randomly, they will not be able to sting you desperately. If you give you a needle, it will not survive."

Liu Hongdong said as he started to do something and began to carefully search for the queen bee in the center of the hive.

When he found the queen bee, Liu Hongdong cut off half of the queen bee's wings with the dagger handed over by Han Xiaokang.

After finishing all this, Liu Hongdong found two more pink and honey bees and two more sons, and cut off their wings.

This kind of spleen bee usually has to rely on them to take good care of the life of the queen bee.

If the queen bee encounters an accident.

For example, if you eat nectar that has been consumed with pesticides, or if you are invaded by a wasp, causing the queen bee to die unexpectedly.

These sub-splenished bees can be cultivated into a new generation of queen bees by bee colonies at any time.

After Liu Hongdong handles the most critical and important queen bee in the entire bee colony, as well as the candidate queen bee.

At this time, Zhou Jian had already returned with the things.

Liu Hongdong pulled open the soft rubber plug on the alcohol bottle and sucked a large mouthful of alcohol in his mouth.

Then he sprayed a sip of alcohol at the log beehive that Han Xiaokang had just made for a while.

Wait for two minutes until the smell of alcohol dissipates.

Only then did Liu Hongdong carefully put the entire hive into the brand new hive.

Then, he used some wood pieces to transform the hole that Han Xiaokang made for the wild beehive a little smaller: "The wild bee that just moved the box will take several days to adapt to the new environment.

At this time, don’t expect them to go out to collect honey. So you can only reduce the frequency of wild bees’ activities and feed them more syrup.

Only when this wild bee colony adapts to the new environment can they gradually return to normal. Hey, Xiaokang, do you have sugar to feed these wild bees? If not, this will not be domesticated!"

Professional people do professional things.

Han Xiaokang scratched his head, "I don't have sugar, but I have wild honey."

"That would be great!"

Liu Hongdong was overjoyed, "Using raw pulp to raise wild bee colonies is much better than white sugar.

Especially for this queen bee, you have to feed it royal jelly so that it can stimulate the queen bee to lay eggs as early as possible, I thought you didn’t have honey.”

In fact, Liu Hongdong’s perception just now was correct, because many beekeepers even though they had honey on their hands.

When bees are scarce in winter, they are reluctant to feed them with honey.

You know, honey is much more expensive than sugar.

Otherwise, where did so many people come from in the future to use sugar, flavor, and some honey to sell it as pure honey?

Wait until Liu Hongdong gets the wild beehive ready.

He asked Zhou Jian to pick a tree nearby and saw off the trunk about 1.5 meters away from the ground.

Then put the beehive on it and fix it, and it is done.

With Liu Hongdong's help, the task of taming wild bees seems to have been more than half successful.

After finishing all this, Han Xiaokang took Liu Hongdong and Zhou Jian back to the small yard and began to reclaim the land.

Now there are two laborers who come to your door, so it’s useless.

"Xiaokang, I'll come here to help you get this piece of land in the past two days. In a few days, I'll have to take your tools and go back to me."

While working, Liu Hongdong discussed with Han Xiaokang, "I plan to reclaim 2 or 3 acres of land there, and plant them all into sweet potatoes, corn, soybeans, etc. to supplement pig feed.

When these things are finished, I still want to plant rice on the edge of the stream. What do you think of my plan?"

Seeing that his cousin had been taking root here for a long time and actively developing the planting industry, Han Xiaokang certainly wanted to do so!

Because there are many crops, if too few are planted, the lack of pollination sources will lead to a decrease in yield.

Now, the more land Liu Hongdong and Zhou Jian and others have reclaimed, the better.

Although Liu Hongdong has 32 kilograms of food every month, and the feed grains for the four piglets will be allocated as much as possible every month.

But the situation in the mountains is changing, and more and more people are eating now.

At that time, no matter whether there is more food on Liu Hongdong or Aju’s side, everyone can adjust to each other.

In this way, you will not have to worry about being hungry in the future.

It seems that there are great achievements in the deep mountains and forests. No one cares about self-cultivation, and there is no need to pay public grain.

As long as you have food on hand, you can survive the next three years!
Chapter completed!