What are the secrets of bees? What are the instincts of bees?

Bees are top-notch construction masters. Only bees can build in nature. They are the least space-consuming and most solid structures. They can brew bee food and build beehives. Humans have given bees the title of "wings of agriculture". Isn't it great? Let's continue to explore the secrets of bees!

Contents of this article

1. What are the secrets of bees?

2. What instincts do bees have?

3. What title do humans give to bees?

What are the secrets of bees?

1. Bees have a keen sense of smell and can identify bees from other groups based on their smell.

2. The flying speed of bees is 20-40 kilometers per hour, and their effective activity range is within 2.5 kilometers away from the nest.

3. The nesting instinct of bees is complex, and they usually build nests during the peak flowering period of plants.

4. Bees feed on pollen and nectar and make honey.

5. The main tasks of worker bees are to collect food, feed larvae, secrete wax to build combs, secrete juice to clean the nest, protect the nest and attack the enemy, etc.

Honey bees belong to the order Hymenoptera, family Apidae. Honey bees are social insects, consisting of queen bees, drones, worker bees and other individuals. There are many types of honey bees, mainly including the ten major types of honey bees: small honey bees, black small honey bees, large honey bees, black large honey bees, Sabah honey bees, Sulawesi honey bees, green slave honey bees, western honey bees, oriental honey bees and Chinese honey bees. The first four are wild bee species, distributed in Hainan, Guangxi and Yunnan, China, while the latter two include many subspecies, most of which are geographically isolated natural subspecies. Artificially bred honey bee varieties are mostly hybrids.

What instincts do bees have?

Bees can brew bee food and build beehives. Bees are top architects. Their beehives are double-sided hexagonal in shape, which is the structure that uses the least space and raw materials and is the strongest. Bees are the only ones in nature who can build them. Bees account for more than 85% of pollinating insects. Bees can produce royal jelly, and decenoic acid is only found in royal jelly in nature. Bees control the sex of their offspring, and the queen bee can control whether she gives birth to a boy or a girl.

Bees are a general term for insects of the order Hymenoptera and family Apidae. The geographical distribution of bees depends on the distribution of nectar plants. They are distributed all over the world, but there are more species in tropical and subtropical areas. From spring to late autumn, during the flowering season of plants, bees are busy every day. They live entirely on flowers, including pollen and nectar, and sometimes brew and store them into honey. The body is 8-20 mm long, yellowish brown or dark brown, with dense hair; the abdomen is nearly oval, with less hair than the chest, and a stinger at the end of the abdomen. Bees are insects with complete metamorphosis. The three types of bees all go through four developmental stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult (adult bee). The four stages of bees are morphologically different. At this stage, the Apidae family can be divided into three subfamilies: Carpenter Bees, Apidae and Apinae. Among them, three tribes of the Carpenter Bee subfamily: Carpenter Bees, Small Reed Bees and Reed Bees; six tribes of the Apinae subfamily: Striped Bees, Long-bearded Bees, Comb Bees, Honey Bees, Wheat Bees and Bumble Bees are all distributed in China.

What name do humans give to bees?

Humans have given bees the title of “wings of agriculture”.

Honey bees: Belong to the order Hymenoptera, family Apidae. The body length is 8 to 20 mm, yellowish brown or dark brown, with dense hairs. The head is almost as wide as the chest. The antennae are knee-shaped, the compound eyes are oval and hairy, the mouthparts are chewing and sucking, and the hind legs are pollen-carrying legs. Two pairs of membranous wings, the front wings are large, the hind wings are small, and the front and back wings are connected by a row of wing hooks. The abdomen is nearly oval, with less body hair than the chest, and there are chelicerae at the end of the abdomen. There are four stages in the life cycle: egg, larva, pupa and adult.

In addition to providing people with honey, royal jelly, bee venom and beeswax, bees also mainly pollinate various crops to increase production. One-third of human food depends directly or indirectly on insect pollination, and 80% of this one-third is completed by bees. Bees are the most ideal pollinating insects for various crops and are known as the "wings of agriculture."