What kind of flowers do bees usually pick? How do bees collect pollen?

The bees are put in the peach blossom forest, pick the peach nectar, and put it in the locust forest to collect the honey of the locust flower.

Put it in the jujube forest and collect the nectar of the jujube flowers.

There is also a kind of mixed nectar, or hundred flower nectar, that is, the kind that the boss does not put the bees in a special kind of forest, and the bees pick all kinds of flowers.

Now the locust tree is blooming right now, and this flower should be picked.

The mouthparts of a bee are like a straw that stretches and contracts. When collecting honey, the straw is extended to suck the nectar into the honey stomach. Bees have fluff on their bodies that can pick up pollen.

Bees mix nectar and pollen together into small pollen balls and put them in a "pollen basket" on their hind feet.

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.

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.

1. Detection of nectar source: bee honey collection starts from the detection bee to detect the nectar source, in the honey source plant honey flow period bee colony will send a large number of detection bees, the detection bee will collect a small amount of nectar and return to the hive after finding the nectar source, after returning to the nest, the detection bee uses the bee dance to tell other workers the location and distance of the honey source, and will also "share" the nectar collected back to other worker bees.

2. Honey bee honey collection: the worker bees responsible for honey collection in the bee colony are mainly collecting bees, and the collecting bees will go straight to the nectar source after receiving the information of the detection bees, and the collecting bees can not only use the tubular mouthparts to absorb the nectar, but also collect the pollen with the "pollen brush" and "pollen frame" specially formed by the tarsal joints, and the collecting bees will return to the hive after the nectar and pollen are collected.

3. Honey transport back to the nest: the nectar collected by the bees is temporarily stored in the honey sac, the honey sac has a strong contraction and can return the nectar to the mouth, and the collection bee will spit out the nectar in the honey sac after returning to the hive.

The purpose of honey collection by bees.

1. Bees collect honey to store food. Bees are insects that feed entirely on flowers (including nectar and flowers), but plants have a certain cycle of flowering and may be relatively discontinuous, so bees will collect a large amount of pollen and nectar in the season when the nectar source is abundant or not suitable to go out of the nest to collect.

2. Bees can make honey from flowers. Bees use tubular mouthparts to suck plant nectar and temporarily store it in the honey sac, and then spit out the nectar after returning to the nest and hand it over to the bees to make honey, which will accelerate the evaporation of water in the nectar on the one hand, and add invertase enzyme to promote the conversion of sucrose in the nectar into simple sugars.

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?

Can help pollinate flowers and produce fruits, almost three-quarters of the planet's flowering plants rely on insects for pollination. For example, when a bee collects nectar from a flower, the pollen will stick to its body, and when it flies to another flower, some of the pollen will be left behind, so it will unknowingly complete pollination. It is through the pollination of insects that flowers of different colors, shapes, and smells evolve to bear fruit.

Bees are pollened when collecting honey, which is good for pollination.

It is mainly used to pollinate flowers, which is conducive to the generation of the next generation.