Who knows what eats bees? How to eat bees is the right one?

The natural enemies of bees are insectivorous birds such as swallows, bee-eaters, and chickadees. If the winter is very cold, the green woodpecker will peck through the hive with its powerful beak and peck at the bees that spend the winter in seclusion. Among birds of prey, the bee hawk is not afraid of stinging due to its dense plumage, and they destroy the hive to peck at the eggs and larvae.

Some insects are also bee killers, they sting and kill bees. Mud wasps are one of them. They look like large wasps, and when they catch them, they squeeze their abdomen to extract all the nectar, and then leave the bee residue for their larvae to feed.

Dragonflies are terrible carnivorous insects that also eat bees as a delicacy. Spiders open their webs to hunt bees, crab spiders set traps in their corollas to catch bees, and round web spiders "guard their webs and wait for bees".

Other animals are interested in the fruits of bee labor, such as hives and honey. Vesps covet honey stored in their hives, butterflies called hive moths lay their eggs in the hives, and caterpillars build nets through the hives of vulnerable colonies. A biptera, nicknamed the bee lice, inhabits bees, especially queen bees, and forces their victims to spit out food.

The most frightening is beesporosis, a single-celled organism, and aspergillosis, a fungus that paralyzes the respiratory system and blinds the eyes of bees. Among mammals, bears are honey gourmets.

Yesterday I watched a TV show about the European bees introduced to Japan being wiped out by the local Japanese hornets. Bumblebees feed on the larvae of bees to raise their own larvae, so they bite all the bees to death before taking the larvae. However, the native Japanese bee has a natural ability to deal with bumblebees, although it is very similar in size to the European honeybee.

Eating bees is not eating honey.

Fresh, ripe honey can be taken as is, or it can be formulated as an aqueous solution, which is more easily absorbed than pure honey. However, honey should never be boiled with boiling water or steamed at high temperature, because unreasonable heating will seriously destroy the nutrients in the honey, inactivate the enzymes in the honey, darken the color, volatilize the fragrance, change the taste, and have an unpleasant sour taste. The results showed that the enzymes, especially amylase, were extremely unstable to heat in the nutrients of honey, and the decrease of amylase value proved that the unique aroma and taste of honey were destroyed and volatilized, the antibacterial effect was reduced, and the nutrients were destroyed.

Therefore, honey is best to use warm boiled water below 40 or cold boiled water to dilute and take, especially in the hot summer, with cold boiled water to wash honey diet, can relieve heat and fever, is a good cool health drink. Spread honey on bread and steamed buns during meals, or add honey to warm soy milk and milk, mix and drink together. Honey can also be mixed in cold dishes or used to drink mineral water and pure water, which is fragrant and delicious, and rich in nutrition.

Different ways of taking it have different effects. Under normal circumstances, honey is mainly taken "raw", that is, fresh honey can be taken without heating, so that the nutrients of the honey can be preserved from damage, which is conducive to making full use. In individual cases, when some honey fermentation phenomenon must be heated and sterilized, the waterproof heating method should be used, and a small amount of home sterilization can be placed in a basin and steamed in a pot, and the honey temperature reaches 60 65 when it is kept for 15 30 minutes, and the yeast is killed.

60 Honey temperature does not cause inactivation of active substances such as vitamins and enzymes, effectively maintaining the nutrients and effects of honey. Most of the active substances such as enzymes are destroyed by boiling medicine or high-temperature processing under special conditions, and their role is mainly due to their stable components such as various sugars and minerals.

Bees eat pollen or nectar.

Bees live entirely on flowers, including pollen and nectar, and are sometimes brewed and stored as honey. There is no doubt that bees pollinate the flowers as they collect them, and when they collect pollen from among the flowers, they drop some pollen onto the flowers.

These dropped pollen are important because they often cause cross-pollination of plants. The actual value of bees as pollinators is greater than the value of their production of honey and beeswax.

During the flowering season, bees are busy every day. Winter is the only short period of rest for bees. However, cold weather and low temperatures inside the hive are not good for bees because bees are ectotherms, and their body temperature changes with the temperature of their surroundings.