Why do bees collect honey and why do bees collect honey

In beekeeping, we all know that the main purpose of beekeeping is to obtain bee products. For many beekeeping friends, obtaining bee products mainly refers to honey. Honey is mainly used in the nectar of plants, which has been treated by bees once.

So how do bees make nectar into honey? As we all know, bees' eyes don't turn, but we all know that bees are very sensitive when collecting honey. What's the secret?

Today, the bee tribe is here to share with friends the whole process of bee honey collection. We see the introduction of bees in many materials, that is, the sense of smell is sensitive, and the vision is also sensitive. Regarding this, many friends know that we need to go through deodorization when using bee traps, but many friends do not know about the visual problem.

In fact, the vision of bees is really unusual. When bees collect honey, they rely mainly on smell and sight to find pollen and nectar. Why are bees so sensitive to vision?

In fact, it is mainly the compound eyes of bees. Bees are known to have a pair of compound eyes, and one compound eye is made up of thousands of single eyes. These monocular look in different directions, which makes the bees' vision very sensitive, although their eyes cannot be turned.

In the past, the division of worker bees was always divided into water bees, water bees, scout bees, and so on. In fact, bee tribes have more than once questioned the division of worker bees in a colony, because the management of a colony is very strict, just as the supervising bees in the colony eat the worker bees when they find out they have laid eggs. In a colony, whether the queen bee is in power or the worker bees is in power has always been a controversial issue.

In the eyes of the bee tribe, there is at least one middle-level management organization in this regard, and the power should be higher than that of the queen bee. Take our bees, for example. If you look closely, you will find a problem, that is, some bees collect honey alone, some bees collect pollen alone, and some bees collect everything.

Then there should be a division of labor, but no one studies this division of labor anymore. So all three types of bees have historically been classified as honey bees. Well, let's focus on collecting bees.

Bees collect honey mainly by piercing their kisses into the flowers again and again. After the bee inserts the kiss into the flower, it sucks the nectar into the bee's honey sac and brings it back to the hive. After the bees bring the nectar back to the hive, it goes through a series of treatments.

After removing the excess water from the nectar, the honey is considered ripe, and the worker bees will cover the honeycomb with beeswax, so that the honey in the honeycomb is ready. Nectar is secreted by the nectar of the plant. Almost all honey in the world is made from nectar.

Some plants have nectar inside the flower and some outside the flower. It is worth mentioning that a small amount of honey is not brewed from nectar, but from the bark of trees or the secretions of certain insects. This is the little knowledge that the bee tribe shared with friends today about how bees make honey.

Bees collect nectar for food, which is needed for bees to reproduce.

Bees are insects that feed on pollen, but in nature, plants bloom seasonally, and when winter comes, the flowers that are the source of nectar will be greatly reduced or even completely disappeared. In order not to starve in winter, bees must store the pollen they usually collect, and fresh pollen cannot be stored for a long time, and only by making pollen into non-perishable honey can it be stored to meet the needs of the bees themselves and their offspring in the future. The main body of bees collecting honey is worker bees, they generally use their mouthparts to collect flower dew, the flower dew is generally at the bottom of the flower, they will suck the flower dew will return to the hive to spit the flower dew in the hive, then there will be other bees responsible for making honey to add some elements to the flower dew that they think should be added.

Bees make honey mainly to feed the drones and queens in the hive, and honey is used to build nests, and other bees collect mainly pollen, which they bring home (hive) and then brew honey. Honey is a highly nutritious food that provides a lot of energy for bees. Therefore, bees collecting honey are like giant pandas eating bamboo, which is the result of their long-term adaptation to the environment.

The honey we eat is synthesized by bees swallowing and spitting out the nectar after hundreds of times, which is rich in nutrients.

Knowledge expansion: According to fossil data, bees have been found in large quantities in the Late Eocene strata of the third quarter, and many species of the bee family have great economic value and are closely related to human life. In ancient China, bees and their uses were documented. Many kinds of products or behaviors are closely related to medicine (e.g., honey, royal jelly, bee venom), agriculture (e.g., crop pollination), and industry (e.g., beeswax, propolis), and they are called resource insects.

The most well-known are the Italian and Oriental honey bees, which are domesticated for honey production.

Let the teacher tell you why bees collect honey.

Hello, this is because bees need to use nectar as a raw material to make honey, and then eat honey, if you don't collect honey, the bees will starve to death.

Bees collect honey because it is their food, and the honey queen bees and colonies collected are for daily consumption and to ensure the growth of the next generation of baby bees.

Bees collect honey because they need to use the pollen they collect to make honey for the queen bee, the male peak and for their own consumption, i.e. to obtain food. Collecting honey is not only for better survival, but also to feed the next generation, which is a process of bee reproduction, which is a normal phenomenon.

Why do bees collect honey?

When bees collect nectar, they generally choose budding or newly opened flowers, use their mouthparts to absorb the essence of the flowers, and then store them in the hive for brewing, and when the plants are not blooming, they will feed on honey.

Honey bee is a kind of social insect, composed of queen bee, male bee, worker bee and other species, worker bee is the female bee in the bee colony with imperfect reproductive organs, and can be subdivided into three types: nursery bee, nest bee and honey bee.

The bee has a small body, a black cephalothorax, and a whole body covered with downy hairs, and is agile in flight, which is suitable for raising in the ecological environment of mountainous and semi-mountainous areas.