Information on bees Which part of the pollen is collected

In the warm spring season, some bees doing reconnaissance work fly out of the box to find the source of the honey. When the scout bee finds a nectar source outside, it sucks in a bit of nectar and pollen and flies back quickly. When it returned to the colony, it started dancing.

Don't think it's just an expression of joy, but the dance is used by bees to indicate the distance and direction of the nectar source. There are generally two types of bee dances: circular dance and figure-of-eight dance. If the nectar source is found not too far from the hive, a circular dance is performed on the hive spleen (where the bees use it to hold honey, incubate the young bees, and stay there); If the nectar source is far away, perform the figure-of-eight dance.

If the head is facing upwards when dancing, then the nectar source is facing the direction of the sun, and if the head is facing downwards, the nectar source is facing the direction of the sun.

The bees in the hive received the good news from the scout bees, and some of them quickly flew out of the hive and flew in the direction it had guided. When the bees came back from eating the nectar, they danced to their companions and mobilized everyone to collect honey. Such a pass.

Ten or ten to hundred, more and more bees are rushing to the source of honey to carry out a large amount of collection work.

Spring and summer are the time when flowers are in full bloom, and the nectar source is the most abundant. At this time, the worker bees began to go out frequently to collect honey. They stop at the flowers**, stretching out the delicate "tongue" like a tube, and there is a honey spoon on the tip of the tongue, when the "tongue" stretches and shrinks, the sweet juice at the bottom of the corolla flows down the "tongue" to the honey stomach.

The worker bees suck one flower after another, until the stomach is full and the belly is bulging and shiny.

Under normal circumstances, a worker bee goes out to collect honey more than 40 times a day, picking 100 flowers each time, but the nectar collected can only make 0 5 grams of honey. If you want to make 1 kilogram of honey, and the distance between the hive and the nectar source is 1,500 kilometers, it is almost 120,000 kilometers to fly, which is almost equivalent to flying around the earth three times.

Collecting nectar is so hard to make, and it is not easy to make nectar into honey. All the worker bees spit out the sweet juice of the flowers they had picked into an empty hive, and at night, they sucked the sweet juice into their stomachs to prepare it, then spit it out and swallowed it again, and so on and so forth, 100 240 times, before finally making sweet honey.

It is often said that "a hundred is made into steel", but honey is really made from a hundred years. In order to dry the honey as quickly as possible, thousands of worker bees have to constantly flap their wings, and then hide the dried honey in the warehouse, seal the wax lid and store it for winter.

In addition to preparing "fine grain" honey, the worker bees will also collect the pollen brought back from the honey collection, mix it with a little nectar, add a little water, and rub out pollen balls to make the "coarse grain" that the bees usually eat.

By making honey, bees not only prepare their own rations, but also play a huge role in spreading pollen by plants. Among the insects that pollinate fruit trees and crops, bees are the absolute workhorse. For example, a bee can bring 48,000 pollen grains to melons in a single flight, while an ant can only carry 330 pollen.

Through bee pollination, the yield of fruit trees and crops can be greatly increased.

When the bees are picked up, they carry it on their legs. The beekeeper then puts a deduster at the door of the hive. The bees scrape the pollen off when they enter the nest. I have been stealing pollen at the door of the hive when I was a child. Hehe.

The feathers on the bees' feet and the feathers on their bodies are used to collect pollin.

It is the nectar that is collected.

To make 1 kilogram of honey, worker bees need to collect 10 kilograms of nectar. The total round trip is 320,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to about eight times around the world. Worker bees work as soon as they are born, and the division of labor changes according to the increasing age.

Normally, when the worker bee 1 is 3 days old, it is responsible for incubating the eggs and cleaning the spawning room;

3 At 6 days of age, they were fed large larvae and pollen and honey; 6 At the age of 12 days, it is changed to secrete royal jelly, and feed small larvae and queen bees; 12 At the age of 18 days, it was replaced with wax to create a spleen and clean the beehive; After 18 days of age, it is tasked with collecting nectar, water, pollen, propolis, and the defense of the nest.

Pollen and nectar are both collected by bees, and when they collect pollen, they are taken home with their furry hind legs, and when they collect honey, they are sucked into their stomachs and brought back.

The pollen collected is used to feed the larvae, while the honey is eaten by the adults when there is no nectar outside.

Honey is harvested with pollen, which is made by the queen bee to become honey.

All picked. The mouth of a bee belongs to the chewing and sucking mouthparts.

As the name suggests, it can chew pollen and suck nectar.

We often see "little bees" flying among the flowers, which are the worker bees in the bee family who are diligently "working", flying around to bring back pollen and nectar for the bee family to make food. So, how do tiny worker bees collect pollen and nectar?

The bee will insert the small tubes in its mouthparts (its mouth) deep into the flowers, suck the nectar inside, and collect pollen from the stamens with its feet. After picking one flower, it will fly to another flower to continue collecting. Bees choose flowers that are fully open when collecting nectar, as flowers that are fully blooming are the most nectar content.

Bees collect pollen to feed larvae, and in general, they are used to feed three-day-old worker bees and drone larvae. During the breeding period, bees also eat pollen directly to develop their bodies, so that their bodies secrete royal jelly to feed the larvae and queen bees. Worker bees and drone larvae are fed royal jelly before the third instar, and queen bee larvae are fed royal jelly for life.

Pollen is the main raw material for bee larvae to eat, the collection bee uses the pollen basket on the hind legs to collect into a wheat-sized particle, bring it back to the hive by the bee to press into the powder room, and at the same time spray a small amount of mature honey to brew, and finally form a bee pollen food, which is mainly used to feed the older bee insects after three days of age. In general, bees bring back pollen masses when collecting honey, which are stored and fermented in the hive to form pollen. Pollen is the male germ cell in the stamens of flowering plants, which not only carries the genetic information of life, but also contains all the nutrients necessary for the birth of new life.

Pollen dough is not only a natural nutritious food, but also an ideal tonic, with a certain medical effect, eating is relatively helpful to the body.

Honey bees collect nectar by using the sharp and thin mouthparts of the head to first suck the nectar into the honey sac, and after returning to the nest, the nectar is spit out in the hive spleen (referring to the bee's house) and fermented to become honey. Pollen is collected by pollen rather than nectar, which is also one of the food for bees, mainly to supplement protein for bees.

The bee flies to the flower first, divides it into small balls on the legs, and then flies back to the hive, through the deduster installed by the owner into the hive, the pollen falls, if the owner does not install the deduster, then the bee will fly back to the hive with the pollen, and get the pollen to the hive for storage.

Bee trivia:

1. Bees have been around for 30 million years.

2. It is the only insect that produces food for human consumption.

3. Bees are environmentally friendly and important pollinators.

4. They are insects with scientific names - Chinese bees.

5. They have 6 legs, 2 eyes and 2 wings, a nectar bag and a stomach.

6. The wings of the bee swing 11,400 times per minute, making a unique buzzing sound.

7. A bee can fly up to 10 kilometers and reach speeds of up to 24 kilometers per hour, so it must fly about 144,840 kilometers – three times around the earth – to make a pound of honey.

8. The average bee actually produces only one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

9. It takes about 556 worker bees to collect 1 kg of honey from about 2 million flowers.

10. Bees need 28 grams of honey to travel around the world.

11. A bee visits 50 to 100 flowers on a collection trip.

12. A bee colony consists of 20,000-60,000 bees and a queen bee.

13. Worker bees are females, live for 6 to 8 weeks, and do all the work.

14. The queen bee has a lifespan of about 2-3 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is busiest during the summer months, when the hive needs to reach its maximum strength and can lay 2,500 eggs per day.

15. Male bees are called drones, they don't work at all, they don't have stingers, they just mate.

16. Each bee colony has a unique smell for identification.

17. Only worker bees sting, and only when they feel threatened and die once they are stung. The queen bee has stingers, but don't leave the hive to help protect it.

18. It is estimated that it takes 1,100 bee stings to be fatal.

19. The bees communicate with each other through "dancing".

20. In winter, bees feed on honey collected during the warmer months. They form a tight cluster in the hive to keep the queen and themselves warm.