Thank you for your invitation: As to how much the long-term drought this year has affected the current honey production of gallnut, the bee tribe thinks that this influence is enormous, which can be said that it not only affects the honey flowing period of gallnut, but also affects the bee colony. If the drought time is in the honey flowing period of gallnut, the loss will be even greater. There is a saying in the beekeeping industry, which is called eating according to the weather. Many friends refer to this sentence as the influence of long-term continuous rain on bee breeding. In fact, the influence of long-term drought on bee production activities is no less than that of long-term continuous rain. Let&;s take a look at how much the long-term drought of more than two months has affected the yield of gallnut honey and the bee colony. What does a two-month long drought mean to gallnut? In fact, this is a problem that we should consider, because if the long-term drought does not occur in the honey flow period of gallnut, it should be said that the impact is still small, but if it occurs in the honey flow period of gallnut, it may cause the gallnut honey to be harvested. It&;s a matter of time. The nectar flowing period of gallnut is from mid-August to mid-September, which is about one month. If our long-term drought is just in the nectar flowing period of gallnut, the result is that the nectar bees of gallnut can&;t collect it, resulting in a reduction or even no harvest of gallnut honey. The effect of drought on nectar plants is characterized by high temperature and low humidity in the dry season, but it is a problem that nectar plants need a suitable temperature for nectar flow, and it also needs a certain humidity, which is the same for gallnut. Therefore, the effect of drought on gallnut nectar flow is that gallnut nectar flows less, and a small amount of nectar evaporates quickly because of the high temperature, so bees cannot collect it. Coupled with the influence of high temperature and low humidity, gallnut nectar cannot be collected. The effect of drought on bee colony In the dry season, we all know that the bee colony needs to be cooled down, while in terms of high temperature, the bee colony is actually affected not only by the lack of honey-flowing plants, but also by the bee colony itself. Therefore, it is said that there are two effects on the bee colony when there is drought for more than two months in the gallnut flowering period, one is on the bee itself, and the other is on the bee honey collection. First, the influence on the bees themselves. For bees, the queen bee needs a suitable temperature. Under high temperature conditions, the bee colony is easy to stop production, which will greatly reduce the number of age-appropriate bees in the bee colony. After all, there is no new bee production, and bees have to collect a lot of honey, which has an obvious impact on the improvement of honey production. Second, the influence on honey collection by bees. As far as honey collection by bees is concerned, bees themselves are extremely small insects, and the water they can store in their bodies is limited, and the epidermis is not thick. Under high temperature conditions, bees do not fly far, and the requirements for water are high. Even when they arrive at the honey source, the nectar evaporates quickly due to the influence of high temperature, and bees can&;t collect any nectar, so it also seriously affects the honey production of bees. As we all know, gallnut flows honey in autumn, and it belongs to many places in early autumn.Honey source is a key time for us to raise the queen and replace the queen bee in autumn. If there is a long-term drought in the gallnut flowering period, there will be few or no babies in the bee colony, which will inevitably cause us to fail to cultivate the queen bee in autumn, and the honey source collection in the later period will inevitably be affected. Therefore, for the long-term drought in the gallnut flowering period, the bee tribe thinks that it will not only affect the collection of honey plants in the later period of gallnut. After all, it&;s wintering after autumn. If we don&;t complete the replacement of queen bee in gallnut flowering period, then the replacement of queen bee will be postponed to the next flowering period, and autumn is not far from winter. After delaying a flowering period, it is not the collection of gallnut nectar that is delayed, but also seriously affects the collection of nectar in the later period, which may completely lead to the failure of honey source in autumn, because most of the honey in the later period is used as the wintering bee bread of bees and cannot be harvested.