Little knowledge about bees

Bees belong to the order Hymenoptera, the family Apisidae, and there are many species

Honey bees are social insects, consisting of queen bees, drone bees, worker bees and other individuals. There are many species of bees, about 15,000 species are known in the world, and about 1,000 species are known in China. There are many kinds of products or behaviors that are closely related to medicine (such as honey, royal jelly), agriculture (such as crop pollination), and industry (such as beeswax, propolis), and they are called resource insects.

The value of bees

Bees feed entirely on flowers, including pollen and nectar, the latter sometimes concocted and stored as honey. There is no doubt that the bees also pollinate the pollen when it is collected, and when the bees collect pollen between the flowers, some pollen will be dropped on the flower. This dropped pollen is important because it often causes cross-pollination of plants. The actual value of bees as pollinators is greater than the value of their honey and beeswax production.

life of bees

The way of life of bees is divided into 3 types: 1 Social. Male and female and worker bees live in the same nest, but differ in morphology, physiology and division of labor. 2 Solitary. The vast majority of bees are solitary, that is, worker bees build their nests and collect flour and store food alone, and they have no "hierarchical" differentiation. 3 Parasitism. Female bees do not build nests, but lay their eggs in the host's nest.

Origin of bees

According to fossil data, bees have been found in large numbers in the Tertiary Late Eocene strata. Its appearance is closely related to the flourishing of flowering plants in the late Cretaceous.

Systemic status of bees

In the class Insecta, bees belong to an advanced evolutionary group. The emergence of a social way of life, the transmission of "language" information, the method of identifying the hive by "dance" movements, and the different structures of the hive, etc. Summary of little knowledge of bees:

1. Bees can recognize faces, but people can't recognize bees. Therefore, when you are chased by bees, it is not necessarily that you look like a flower, it may be that you accidentally offended it one day.

2. In summer, there are about 500,000-600,000 bees in a swarm. In winter, there are only 150,000-200,000 bees, a decrease of 2/3.

3. The bees can be heated by vibrating their wings. In order to avoid freezing to death in winter, the bees will clump together and keep vibrating their wings to ensure that the temperature in the hive is 35°C, otherwise they will freeze to death. In the north, this process may take 4-5 months.

4. Thousands of bees die every day in summer, but the queen bee lays 15,000 eggs every day.

5. Brother Flathead loves to eat honey, and he also likes to fart. When he finds the hive, he will first fart to smoke the bees away, and then enjoy the honey that has been smoked by his own fart.

6. Bees will rebel. When they don't want to serve the Queen anymore, they will surround it and keep flapping its wings until the Queen is hot to death!

7. Know the African Killer Bee. 500 years ago, some Africans trained large numbers of killer bees to defend their villages from slave traders.

8. Each female bee has no father, because their father died after mating with the queen. Xiongfeng never had a father because they hatched from unfertilized eggs.

9. Bee dancing is not just for the bees around you, the bees in the distance will receive the information sent by the dancer through the tentacles. 10. Why do bees buzz? Although bees make a buzzing sound, it's not the sound of their wings vibrating! It's the eardrums on the wings! 11. When the older bees are sent to do the work of the younger bees, their brains will suspend aging, and actually rejuvenate! So scientists believe that studying bee brains could help people fight Alzheimer's.