What are the advantages and habits of bees?

Bees are warm animals, and their body temperature changes with the temperature of the surrounding environment. The clever little bee came up with a special way to resist the cold. When the temperature in the hive is as low as 65438 03℃, they are close to each other in the hive and form spherical clusters. The lower the temperature, the closer the colony is, which reduces the surface area and increases the density of bee colony to prevent excessive cooling.

What are the external characteristics of bees?

Bees belong to Hymenoptera and Apiidae. It is a flying social insect. They are called resource insects. 8-20 mm long, brown or dark brown, with thick hair; The head is almost as wide as the chest; The waist is thinner than the chest and abdomen; The antenna is knee-shaped, the compound eye is oval, the mouthparts are chewing and sucking, and the hind feet are powder-carrying feet.

Two pairs of membrane wings, the front wing is big and the rear wing is small, and the front and rear wings are connected by wing hooks; The abdomen is nearly oval, with less body hair than the chest and thorns at the end of the abdomen. Bees are completely abnormal insects, which go through four stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult.

What are the habits of bees?

1, completely feeding on flowers

Bees are insects that feed entirely on flowers (including pollen and nectar). When there are abundant external nectar sources, bees brew the collected nectar into honey and store it in the hive. These stored honey are actually food stored by bees for emergencies. For example, in winter, when bees can't leave their nests to collect food, they feed on the stored honey. In beekeeping production, beekeepers often feed bees with white sugar and soybean powder.

2. The acquisition radius is not large.

Generally, the collection radius of bees is about 3 kilometers. When the external honey source is scarce, bees will fly to about 5 kilometers to collect food, but this will greatly reduce the collection efficiency of bees. In addition, bees will go out to investigate the honey source before leaving the nest to collect. After the bees find the honey source, they will notify other worker bees in the form of "bee dance", and then a large number of worker bees will go to the honey source to collect according to the direction indicated by the bees.

3. Secrete wax to build a beehive

Bees' hives are made of beeswax, which is completely different from wasps (wasps build their nests with pulpy materials). Beeswax is a fatty substance secreted by wax glands of 13 ~ 18-day-old worker bees in bee colony. The smallest unit of the whole hive is a hexagonal nest, which is arranged neatly to form a semi-circular nest spleen, and arranged in parallel to form a semi-spherical hive, and the bee colony is in the hive.

4. The life span is extremely short

Bees (mainly worker bees) have a very short life span. The life span of a queen bee in a bee colony is generally 4-5 years, and the longest is 8 years. The average life span of a drone is about 3 months, but once it mates with the queen bee, it will die immediately. The life span of worker bees is closely related to the seasons. The longest life span of worker bees in wintering period is 3-6 months, and the shortest life span in other seasons is about 2 months.

You can only stab one person once.

People are afraid of bees because they have poisonous needles on their tails. In fact, bees can only sting people once in their lives, because there are barbs at the end of the poisonous needle. After stinging, these barbs will hook the skin. When bees sting and fly away, poisonous needles will also pull out some internal organs, and bees that lose some internal organs will soon die. So bees generally don't sting people unless they have to, but if the hive is threatened, bees will attack it.

What is the prospect of breeding bees?

1, bee products are favored.

The main products of beekeeping are honey, propolis and royal jelly, among which honey is made from nectar collected by bees and has been a natural nutrient since ancient times. Propolis is a mixture of gum collected by bees and glandular secretions, which is favored because of its great health care function. Royal jelly is secreted by working bees of the right age in bee colony, which is similar to the milk of mammals and has great nutritional value. In addition, bee products include bee pollen, beeswax, bee pupa, bee venom and so on.

2. The natural environment is valued.

Bee breeding needs a suitable natural environment, and it is impossible to raise bees in places with few honey sources or serious pollution. In recent years, with the implementation of returning farmland to forests, the natural environment in various places has been obviously improved, and the application of pesticides and fertilizers has gradually become reasonable. In fact, all these have created favorable natural resources for bee production, which can not only produce better honey and other bee products, but also obviously improve the economic benefits of bee production.

3. Technology is more accessible.

Bee farming requires extremely high technology. Without technical support, it is impossible to raise bees well. For example, to divide bees, we must master the relevant merger technology. In recent years, with the rapid development of mobile internet, these technologies can be obtained at low cost, and bees can quickly find countermeasures online when they are in trouble, which means that the acquisition cost of beekeeping technology is lower and more convenient.

4. The sales channels are more convenient.

The sale of bee products is the main factor restricting beekeeping. The development of Internet has also brought great convenience to the sales of bee products. As long as you put the bee products online, you can sell them. But the bee products sold online can be described as a mixture of dragons and snakes. Therefore, we should use high-quality products to maintain consumers. Don't destroy the Great Wall for short-term benefits. In fact, high-quality products are also an effective way to stand out from the bee products industry where counterfeiting is rampant.