Chinese bees have no skill of building spleen without foundation, and there is no comparison between building spleen without foundation and building spleen with foundation. When there is no big honey flow outside, worker bees are particularly picky about the quality of honeycomb foundation. If the beeswax content in the honeycomb foundation is high, bees will easily bite the honeycomb foundation. If the content of beeswax in the honeycomb foundation is low, bees will hate the honeycomb foundation and are unwilling to build spleen on it or make a honeycomb spleen.
Compared with the method of "building spleen with foundation", the method of building spleen without foundation needs more time. However, the honeycomb spleen produced without foundation is pure beeswax, and there is another biggest advantage that cannot be ignored, that is, the nest bottom of worker bees is deeper, even deeper than the honeycomb spleen produced with "deep nest foundation", so that the honeycomb spleen can be fed.
Here, I'd like to share with you the skills of making spleen without foundation. The key is how to induce new bees to leave the house on the spleen in the bee colony from about 6 days to about 10 days. At this time, the new bees began to collect wax, which is also a period when the new bees have strong ability to secrete wax. Choosing this time to let the bees do spleen without foundation will often get twice the result with half the effort. The wire on the honeycomb frame will be waxed and coated with beeswax. At the same time, bees are encouraged to feed, which improves the enthusiasm of bee colony collection, because worker bees need to consume more honey in the process of wax secretion and spleen building, which can help bees build spleen under the condition of sufficient feed and also improve the enthusiasm of queen bees to lay eggs. It is easy for the queen bee to lay eggs in the bee colony and the worker bee to make the spleen "go hand in hand"