What are the types of bees and what are the species of bees

The fruit tree honey in the single flower honey includes: lychee honey, jujube honey, citrus honey, longan honey, loquat honey, persimmon honey and apple honey;

Forest honey includes: black locust honey, linden honey, cinnamon honey, black tree honey, eucalyptus honey, luan honey, privet honey, sumac honey, paulownia honey, vitex honey, bush branch honey, goosefoot wood honey and white thorn honey, etc.;

Medicinal honey includes: Codonopsis honey, Salvia miltiorrhiza honey, Sophora ginseng honey, Coptis honey, wolfberry honey, astragalus honey, jujube honey, bellflower honey, hyssop honey, peppermint honey, licorice honey, Schisandra honey, Prunella vulgaris honey, wild herb honey, motherwort honey, etc.;

Crop honey includes: rape honey, sesame honey, buckwheat honey, cotton honey, sunflower honey, watermelon honey and leek honey;

Manna honey includes: rubber honey, hibiscus honey and pine honey, etc.; Other honeys include: Lotus honey, milk vetch honey, old melon head honey, Yebazi honey, grass honey, alfalfa honey and thyme honey.

In addition, there are mountain honey (honey of flowers) and nest honey (a kind of honey that we see on the market without separation and honey for direct consumption by consumers, called nest honey) (color picture 6).

According to honey production, it is generally divided into medium bees, black bees and Italian bees.

Honey bee species are: Chinese honey bee, Italian honey bee, Caniola honey bee, European black bee, Caniola honey bee, Japanese honey bee, Indian honey bee, etc. Bees are social insects that are composed of queen bees, drones, worker bees, and other individuals.

A trace amount of chemical information released by bee glands is called pheromones, also known as exohormones.

The main characteristics of the Chinese honey bee are: the body is small, the cephalothorax is black, the queen bee is about long, the body color is black or round brownish-red, and the whole body is covered with black and dark yellow hairs.

The body length of the worker bee is about 11mm, the beak is about 5mm long, the dorsal plate of the ventral segment is black and yellow, the abdomen of the middle bee in high latitude and high mountainous areas is black, and the abdomen of the middle bee in the low latitude and plain area is yellow, and the whole body is covered with gray short villi. The drone is about long and long, black or black-brown in color, and its whole body is shouted and covered with gray fluff.

The bee has strong cold tolerance, agile flight, and is easy to fly away when the nectar source is lacking or the pest is infestation, and it is suitable for raising in the ecological environment of Zhengtong and semi-mountainous areas in the mountainous areas. Strong resistance to bee mites, strong banditry, strong bee splitting, weak resistance to nest insects, often bite old nests, weak resistance to cystic larvae, susceptible to infection with cystic larvae disease and European larval putrid disease.

Types of bees: Black Honey Bee, Black Big Honey Bee, Big Honey Bee, Sabah Bee, Western Honey Bee.

1. Little black bees.

The black bee is black, also known as the small row bee, which is mainly distributed in Yunnan Province and Southeast Asia in China. The small black bee is small in size, more flexible, and has a high honey yield. The black bee has certain temperature requirements and has a high activity between 15 and 20.

2. Big black bee

The black bee is the largest bee species in the honey bee, and this species has a strong adaptability, which can adapt to different altitudes and fly to collect nectar at different temperatures. The large black bee produces a large number of honey, and in late autumn and early winter every year, a single spleen can take 40 to 60 kg of honey at a time.

3. Big bees

The large honey bee is mainly distributed in South and Southeast Asia, this species has a certain aggressiveness, with an average body length of 15-18mm, and the large size of the large bee is relative to other bee species. If you have a friend who breeds big bees, you should pay attention to bee prevention measures.

4. Sabah bee

The Sabah bee is a foreign bee species, mainly distributed in Sabah, Malaysia, the size of this bee species is medium, and its body is copper-red. The time for the Sabah bee to go out to collect honey is 16:30-18:15, and its living habits are very similar to those of the Oriental honeybee.

5. Western honey bees

Western honey is naturally widely distributed and is produced in the West. Western honey is currently the most common bee species in the world. The survival of honey in the West is threatened in different ways, and it has been infested by varria mites. Western honey bees originated in Africa and later migrated to various parts of Europe.