How do wild bees live intimately?

The bees take in the water from the vicinity of the hive, and then return to the hive, where they pass the water to another group of bees, so that the water flows back into the hive, where the liquid is evaporated and cooled, and when the temperature in the hive drops, the bees begin to grab each other's feet and intertwine each other into a "quilt". This "quilt" is called a "sleeping bag", and inside the "sleeping bag" the bees adjust the temperature by tightening it.

In order to record the social activities of bees, some researchers built a four-wall studio around the hive. The studio has a small window and a light that allows the macro lens to be placed behind the hive hole to begin observation shooting. Bees can be seen flying to the edge of the woodpecker's hole, followed by large swarms of bees, and eventually a large number of wild social insects gather here.

The weather at this time is very warm and the bees need to cool down. So they cleverly used the principle of liquid evaporation to cool the hole. When the whole system is set up, all the bees start to stir up their wings, which allows the air to flow faster and the water to evaporate faster.

The crew later filmed a bee flying and opening a gland that emits pheromones. The captured image made him feel like he could see more of the way the bees behaved. So he longed to let people know the little-known beauty of wild bees through the intimate ** of these bees.

In fact, bees are a kind of habitual animals for people, and they don't know more, but through this group of ** to observe more in-depth bee behavior, it will arouse people's greater interest.

The male bee inserts the tail needle into the mating position of the female bee to mate and have intimate relations, except for some species.

I don't think there's a big difference between wild bees and captive-bred bees, and their intimate lives rely on physical and acoustic information, or chemical information (smell).

The living habits of bees are as follows:

1. Polyphagogy: that is, on plants of different families or from flowers of a certain color (not limited to plant species) to eat pollen and nectar, such as wasps and bees.

2. Monophagous: that is, only feeding from a certain plant or related species, such as cornflower wasp. The flowers of various types of bees are closely related to the length of the mouthparts:

For example, species with short mouthparts such as tunnel bees, ground bees, and split-tongue bees interviewed the open flowers of the Rosaceae, cruciferae, umbelliferae, and ranunculaceae. Species of leafcutter bees, striped bees, and honeybees have long mouthparts, and flowers with deep flower tubes such as legumes and labials are interviewed.

3. Parasitism: Female bees do not build nests and lay eggs in the host's nest. Young larvae generally have a large head and palate that are used to destroy the host's eggs or larvae.

4. Ochivorus: that is, feeding from the flowers of plants of related families and genera, such as alfalfa quasi-wasps.

5. Social: Bees live in groups, and there are three types of bee groups: queen bee, worker bee and drone, and there is one queen bee (two queen bees in some exceptions), 10,000 to 150,000 worker bees, and 500 to 1,500 drones.

Extended Information: In bee societies, they still live a matrilineal clan life. Among the members of their large family of groups is a queen bee (queen bee), which is a fertile female bee who is responsible for laying eggs and reproducing offspring while "dominating" the extended family.

Although the queen bee has been mated, not all the eggs laid have been fertilized.

It can lay fertilized eggs and feed the worker bees with pollen according to the needs of the large family of the group, and the bees will develop into female bees (worker bees without reproductive ability) after 21 days; It is also possible to lay unfertilized eggs, which develop into drones after 24 days. When there are too many members of the large family in this group, which causes crowding, it is necessary to divide the group.

Bees lay eggs in the nest room, the larvae live in the nest room, the larvae of social life are fed by the worker bees, and the larvae of solitary life feed on the bee food stored in the nest room of the female bee, and when the bee food is exhausted, the larvae mature and pupate, and break out of the cocoon when they emerge.

There are several generations of domestic bees a year, and wild bees range from 1 to 3 generations a year. Overwinters with mature larvae, pupae or adults. Males generally appear earlier than females, have a short lifespan, and do not undertake the tasks of building nests, storing bee food, and raising offspring.

Females build nests, collect pollen and nectar, and store them in the nest room, where they live longer than males.

Bees feed on pollen and nectar from plants. Feeding habits can be divided into 3 categories: polyphagous, that is, pollen and nectar are fed on plants of different families or from flowers of a certain color (not limited to plant species), such as wasps and mesobees; oligophagous, that is, feeding from the flowers of plants of related families and genera, such as alfalfa quasi-wasp; Monophagous, i.e., feeding only on a certain plant or related species, such as cornflower wasp.

The flowers interviewed by various types of bees are closely related to the length of their mouthparts: for example, species with short mouthparts such as Tunnel Bee, Ground Bee, and Split-tongue Bee interviewed the open flowers of Rosaceae, Cruciferae, Umbellifera, and Ranunculaceae; Species of leafcutter bees, striped bees, and honeybees have long mouthparts, and flowers with deep flower tubes such as legumes and labials are interviewed.

The living habits of bees are social animals, and a normal bee colony is composed of a queen bee, a drone, and a worker bee, and the different groups of bees have no interconnectedness on their own.

1. Bees are social animals, each bee colony is relatively independent, and the two cannot collude with each other, the bees of the bee colony in order to prevent the invasion of bees in the foreign bee colony and the invasion of some other natural enemies, there is the ability to guard the hive, and the bee needle is the most important thing for them to guard the hive.

2. The bees in the hive rely on their sense of smell to identify the bees, and there are special guards near the entrance of the hive honey, when the foreign bees invade, they will have a fierce fight with the invading bees, and finally expel or bite the intruder to death. Outside the hive, in the nectar source or in the water source, the bees in the two bee colonies do not interfere with each other and coexist peacefully.

3. When the queen bee in the bee colony goes out to marry and fly, if she mistakenly enters other hives, she will be surrounded or even killed by the worker bees inside, but when the drone goes out and returns to the nest, if she enters the hive of the wrong recognition, there will be no such experience, this behavior is the nature of bees, and it is also a biological principle that appears in order to reduce inbreeding.

The main food of bees is flowers, and the food is single.