Soil bee VS Italian bee, whose honey is better

Of course, the earth bee is better, and the Italian bee is very cheap.

Regardless of whether it is soil honey or Italian honey, it is a mixture of substances that bees secrete by collecting nectar and adding invertase and other substances secreted by themselves, which are chemically produced to produce monosaccharides and contain water, minerals, vitamins, proteins, amino acids and other components. As for propolis, propolis is a viscous substance made by bees collecting resin from tree shoots and mixing secretions from beeswax glands and palate glands. Italian bees collect propolis to make "protective agents", "bacteriostatic agents", "adhesives" and "cleaning agents" for bee colonies, etc., and propolis is almost insoluble in water (there are only a few glycosides, tannins, salts, sugars, vitamins, etc. in its composition are soluble in water, and the content is less than 5), and the content of dissolved honey can be less than negligible, so it is too far-fetched to say that Italian honey contains propolis.

Because the bee also collects honey in the low concentration and low temperature period, the honey contains more complete flower substances, minerals, amino acids, etc., so its nutritional value is higher than that of honey.

4. Yield and **: high nutritional value, scarce is expensive, the number of Italian bees in China is far greater than the number of bees, and the yield of a single group is much higher than that of bees, plus the honey fragrance is stronger, more nutritious. Therefore, medium honey is relatively higher than Italian honey**.

In particular, most of the medium honey does not take low-concentration honey to be artificially processed**, and almost no bee medicine is used in the breeding process, less drug pollution, and it is more favored by consumers.

Because of the above reasons, the nutritional value and medicinal value of soil honey are much higher than those of Italian honey. It is the preferred honey for medicinal quotations described in the "Compendium of Materia Medica". Native honey is mostly known as flower honey or wild flower honey, and real native honey is relatively rare on the market.

Whether it is a Chinese bee or an Italian bee, as long as it is naturally ripe, the raw honey is good honey, and it is lucky not to be able to buy adulterated concentrated honey from the current honey market. In fact, most of the existing beekeepers in China raise Italian bees, not Chinese bees; Beekeepers know that it is difficult for bees to survive without human care. This is not the case with Chinese bees, after all, they are native and very adaptable.

But why do professional beekeepers keep bees? The reason is very simple: the bees are not easy to manage, and they cannot be transferred to catch up with the flowering period, the yield is too small, and the economic benefits are not good. From the fact that the market is flooded with a large number of counterfeit and adulterated honey, the demand for honey in China is greater than the supply, and it is even more impossible to rely on the production of honey to meet the market demand.

Honey is a healthy food. Below, let's take a look at the difference between soil honey and Italian honey.

01 The appearance of honey.

If you look closely at the appearance of honey, in general, earthy honey is very viscous, while Italian honey looks diluted and has a lot of moisture, so it is easy to identify.

02 The color of honey.

Looking closely at the color of honey, the color of Italian honey is white, while earth honey contains milky white, red and yellow colors, and there are many colors of earth honey.

03 Taste.

Native honey has a strong herbal smell, and the taste is sweet and sour, while the taste of Italian honey is sweet, and the taste of Italian honey is not as good as that of native honey.

04 Ingredients.

Soil honey is a mixed honey that includes components such as beeswax, division and propolis, while Italian honey is more homogeneous and probably only contains pollen, so the composition is more monotonous.

It should be a Chinese bee, the full name is the Chinese honey bee, the Chinese honey bee has a small body, a black cephalothorax, a yellow-black abdomen, and a yellow-brown fluff all over the body. In 2003, Beijing established the Chinese Honey Bee Nature Reserve in Fangshan District. In 2006, Chinese honey bee was included in the national livestock and poultry genetic resources protection breed of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The abdominal color of the Chinese honey bee worker bee varies from region to region, some are yellow, some are black. The average snout length is 5 mm. The queen bee has two body colors: one has a distinct brownish-yellow ring on the abdominal segment, and the entire abdomen is dark brown; In the other type, the abdominal segment has no obvious brownish-yellow ring, and the entire abdomen is black.

It should be a middle bee.

The shape of the middle bee is mainly gray-black, with yellow rings, while the tail of the Italian bee is semi-yellow in the front and black in the back, which is larger than that of the middle bee.

Bees in the picture above. The picture below is a bee.

The bee has strong adaptability to the environment, strong ability to use sporadic nectar sources, strong ability to avoid aerial enemies, and strong spleen-building ability. But there are also many disadvantages, such as the queen bee has strong egg laying ability, loves to bite the spleen, is good at stealing bees, and is good at flying away.

The Chinese bee is a native bee species, which is both cold and heat tolerant. It can spend a harsh winter of -30 to -40 in a natural tree hole, and can fly and collect at a temperature of 10, and can also collect, make a spleen and reproduce as usual when the temperature is 40.

Chinese bees are good at using sporadic nectar sources. The bee has a keen sense of smell and is industrious, and when there are a few sporadic nectar sources in the outside world, it can collect and maintain the normal reproduction of the colony. In the same situation, the colony needs to be supplemented with feeding, otherwise it will be starving.

The bee flies flexibly and is not easy to be preyed upon by wasps, swallows, sparrows, dragonflies, etc. When there are many wasps in mountainous areas, medium bees can also live well. The bee has a natural resistance to mites and the larval disease of the Americas.

The bee has a strong ability to create a spleen. A neat worker hive spleen can be created without a nest foundation, and the bee colony has a fast spleen-making speed, good wax, white color and high melting point.

Medium bees love to divide bees, and it is not easy to maintain a strong colony, which leads to poor collection power of bee colonies, and the ability to use bulk nectar sources is not as good as that of other bee species that can maintain a strong colony. Medium bees like new spleens and often bite off old spleens to build new ones to reproduce. When there is a shortage of honey sources, it is easy to steal honey from other bee colonies.

When there is a severe shortage of honey or is unable to resist predators, the colony will abandon the nest and flee.

In order to fully explore the economic value of the bee species, bees should fully understand their advantages and disadvantages, and make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses.

For environmental requirements, the Chinese bee has strong adaptability, and the Italian bee has strong collection and fecundity, depending on whether you want to raise it for fun or large-scale breeding? Fix the ground or transfer to chase flowers and honey? It is not that the bee is unable to grow a strong swarm, the main reason is that the content of the traditional barrel bee is too small.

I have raised Italian bees and Chinese bees This depends on whether you are mainly transferred to the land or raised locally Chinese bees are better disease resistance, but honey collection is not strong This you should know that Italian bees are the most common bee species Almost everyone raises this you should know.

Chinese bee breeding is the protection of nature, and Chinese bee is a unique and endangered species in China. It is recommended to breed bees.

Although the Chinese bee and the Italian bee are widely bred in China, they are not the same kind of bee, the Chinese bee belongs to the Eastern bee species, the Italian bee belongs to the Western bee species, and the two bee species cannot mate with each other. At present, in China, the Chinese bee mainly lives in mountainous areas and higher altitude areas, while the Italian bee is mainly distributed in the plain area.

Do you know the difference between Chinese bees and Italian bees, let me tell you.