I suggest that you continue to get to know the bees and learn something interesting about them. Moreover, these facts will help in the future to do apiary properly.
Fact 1
A bee is a collective insect, so it cannot live on its own for a long time. In large families, the bee lives longer; in small families, the life is shorter.
Fact 2
The diet of bees is very limited. This is the nectar needed to maintain energy, as well as pollen - protein feed.
However, bees cannot eat pure nectar and pure pollen. Nectar undergoes a fermentation process, where complex sugars are broken down into simple sugars, fructose and glucose, and pollen undergoes the process of lactic fermentation turning into bee bread.
Fact 3
For a full life, bees need a honeycomb. They build them from wax, which they themselves secrete.
Engineers all over the world are perplexed how such simple insects, which have completely no thinking, solved a difficult task in such a simple way. Namely, to arrange the maximum amount of brood, honey and bee bread in a robust construction, using the minimum amount of material and labor. Indeed, you must admit that hexagons (the shape of a bee cell) are placed close to each other, where each wall is also the wall of the neighboring one, which fully complies with the conditions of this task.
Fact 4
It is naive to believe that the bees are afraid of smoke, and the beekeeper using the smoker during work scares them away. In fact, smoke in bees is associated with a forest fire. A bee runs away from smoke not because it is afraid of it, but in order to collect a full goiter of honey and prepare to leave its house.
Fact 5
Bees do not know how to talk - they transmit all this information by dancing. The dance of bees is quite complicated, but despite this, it is more than informative and has long been solved by scientists.
Fact 6
A bee is able to cover fairly large distances, while without a specific purpose it does not leave the hive. During the flight, she consumes the nectar which she collects, which means that in order for the flight to be effective she must bring more than she consumed.
The closer the bee family is to the source of the bribe, the more it will bring. It is believed that this the distance should be no more than 3 km.
Fact 7
It is a mistake to assume that all the bees in the hive fly behind the nectar. In fact, the number of bees engaged in external hive work (flight) is many times less than those that work inside the hive.
There is much more work inside the hive than outside.
You need to feed the brood, build honeycombs, take nectar, etc. Therefore, bees engaged in intra-hive work, approximately 70% of the total.
Fact 8
A bee never dies inside the hive, only winter is an exception. She feels her death is approaching and leaves the hive in time, flies away as far as possible.
But even if it happened that the bee died in the hive, it falls to the bottom, then another bee carries out its body. At the same time he tries to fly away as far as possible and only there he throws this corpse. This is done so that bacteria that multiply in a dead body do not infect healthy bees.
Fact 9
The uterus never stings a person. Despite the fact that the uterus has a sting, she never uses it. More precisely, it applies it only once in a life when it meets a competitor. There is only one Queen in the bee family.
But if it so happened that the uterus is dead and the bees bring out a new one, they always lay several queen cells from 5 to 50 for reinsurance. Young infertile uterus begin to come out and then a real slaughter begins, the strongest survives. Bees do not take part in this slaughter.
But the latter, who will survive, will be duly considered the Queen.
Fact 10
I already wrote above that bees need nectar and pollen for life. So they also need water. Thanks to water, they maintain the necessary humidity regime in the hive, and they also use it to make kashitsi (this is a mixture of honey and beef). They need gruel in order to feed the brood.
Fact 11
You have probably seen more than once a video of a man standing completely covered in bees. It just looks very scary, in fact, not a single bee stings him. There is no secret here - these are swarm bees. When the swarm leaves the hive, the bee collects as much honey as possible in its goiter. With a full goiter of honey, a bee is not physically able to sting a person.
I would like to look at this "hero" who also just spills on himself not swarm, but ordinary bees from the hive.
We must pay tribute, people have advanced far in understanding the life of bees. Modern man knows much more about them than our ancestors who lived 300 and 500 years ago. But, despite this, scientists agree that in this science, there are even larger gaps. Let's hope that our children and grandchildren fill them.
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