Chapter 473: Buying Bees (Part I)
In the following month, the matter of Ye Luo's almost kidnapping finally cooled down.
As for the reason why the attempted kidnapping case has had such a big impact in Newfoundland, it is largely due to the fact that the local population is dominated by highly educated whites, and the people are relatively simple, with occasional burglaries and few burglaries at most.
After this incident, Newfoundland authorities issued warning notices to residents far from residential areas, telling them to prepare guns at their homes, and if a stranger enters, they can shoot them if they are sure they have bad intentions.
Overall, Hawaii has more control over guns than the United States, and residents are required to adopt a defensive strategy similar to that of California and New York.
But Newfoundland's distance from Hawaii proper, and residents lack security, so authorities encourage them to take a proactive defensive approach.
The difference between the two is that active defense is on your turf, and you can attack if you think the other party is a threat to your safety.
Passive defense requires you to negotiate with the other party, need to be witnessed by a third party, and then determine that the other party poses a threat to your safety before you can fight back.
After a week of review, the kidnapping case was finalized, Hawaii handed over eight convicts, and the United States enforced the Newfoundland court verdict for attempted kidnapping, attempted burglary, and armed home invasion, with two of the eight convicts sentenced to 16 years in prison and six accomplices to 12 years' imprisonment.
With the eight kidnappers handed over and sent out of Hawaii, media attention on the case finally slowed down, and as Dan Ñoz said, the people who followed the case did not pay attention to Ye Luo himself, but only interested in the identities of Chinese billionaires and foreign mercenaries.
In the following days, the work of the old father-in-law's construction team also entered the final stage, and a beautiful three-story courtyard villa appeared on the land not far from the small courtyard where Ye Luo lived, the location was in the west, and the distance between the two sides was about three hundred meters.
After the compound villa was built, Daxter, Robert, Wiggins, and Thomas all wanted to move over, and Ye Luo knew that they were worried about their own safety.
But unlike Karn, Lore, Sith and Hagrig, these guys are single dogs, but they have wives and children, and their spare time should be spent with their families, not their own safety.
Ye Luo found a few people to talk to, and Luo Er helped on the side: "You can rest assured, we have people, guns, hounds, and helicopters here, and there will be no similar things." ”
Dast shook his head and said: "We have negotiated with our family, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday I live here with Thomas, Robert and Wiggins are one, three or five, and we can go home at other times, anyway, we are close to each other, just sleep here at night." ”
Ye Luo's heart was suddenly moved, he found that the way of thinking of Hawaiians and Chinese people is really different, they pay more attention to family and work, they live by themselves after work, and they can not do it if the work is urgent.
In other words, living here to accompany Qin Shiou should be regarded as a benefit from Daxter and their employees to his boss.
With the sharp increase in the area of the fishing ground, it is not only the resources that have increased, but also the crisis, Ye Luo knows that the fishing ground is about to open, and it is time to expand the manpower, otherwise it will not be able to rely on Dast and the others now.
In the end, Ye Luo thought about it but still didn't accept it, but refused on the grounds that there were the three of them there.
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Finally, after a few days, the salted fish were about to become moldy, and the leaves were looking for trouble again.
No, to be exact, it should be for the little one.
The main reason is that Scarlett and other women don't know where to learn that drinking lemon honey water before going to bed can have a beauty effect.
A group of people went to Newfoundland for most of the day and bought several bottles of honey and came back.
Originally, they bought it for themselves, but they didn't expect to be seen by the little guy and like honey after taking a sip.
Directly let the little guy become a big honey consumer, drink a glass in the morning, a glass at noon, a glass in the afternoon, and a drink before going to bed at night.
As a result, the rate of honey consumption was somewhat faster than Scarlett and the others expected, and when there was still half a jar of honey left, he told Ye Luo to buy some back.
At first, Ye Luo planned to ask Rock Hudson to help him send some over, but when he saw the flowers blooming on the island, he immediately had the idea of keeping bees.
Just do it, Ye Luo called Rock Hudson at noon that day and went with him to Massachusetts Island.
If Newfoundland is famous for its fishing grounds, Dortgren is famous for its agriculture and pastry, then Massachusetts is famous for its poultry.
Of course, this poultry is definitely not only chickens, ducks and geese, but also other such as partridges, pigeons, geese and even pheasants, wild ducks, and flower-tailed pheasants.
The bee farm that Ye Luo and Rock Hudson came to is very large, and the variety is even more frightening.
For example, Western bees, Eastern bees, small bees, big bees, small black bees, big black bees, Sabah bees, green bees, Sulawesi bees, and so on.
To be honest, it was the first time that Ye Luo knew that there were so many types of bees!
When the owner of the farm learned that Ye Luo wanted to buy bees, a person in charge began to introduce: "We have many kinds of honey here, which can be roughly divided into three diets, which one do you need?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know much about that. ”
Ye Luo was a little embarrassed and said, "Can you tell us about the differences between the three diets?"
"That's fine, even if you don't ask, I'll tell you. ”
The person in charge said with a smile: "Bees are social insects that can fly, belonging to the order Hymenoptera and the bee family. The body length is 8-20 mm, yellow-brown or black-brown, with dense hairs, the head is almost as wide as the chest, the antennae are knee-shaped, the compound eyes are oval, the mouthparts are chewing and sucking, the hind feet are powder-carrying feet, two pairs of membranous wings, the fore wings are large, the hind wings are small, the front and rear wings are linked with wing hooks, the abdomen is nearly oval, the body hair is less than the chest, and there are chelae at the end of the abdomen, they are called resource insects, the adult bee body is about 2 cm ~ 4 cm long, and the bees of different species are also different. ”
"Bee feeding can be divided into three categories. The first is polyphagous, that is, on plants of different families or from flowers of a certain color (not limited to plant species to feed on pollen and nectar, such as wasps and mesobees. The second is oligophagous, that is, feeding from the flowers of plants of related families and genera, such as alfalfa quasi-wasps. The third is monophagous, that is, feeding only on a certain plant or related species, such as cornflower wasps. ”
For example, species with short mouthparts such as Tunnel Bee, Ground Bee and Tongue Bee interviewed open flowers of Rosaceae, Cruciferae, Apiaceae and Ranunculaceae, while species of leafcutter bees, striped bees and bees interviewed flowers with deep flower tubes such as Fabaceae and Lamiaceae due to their long mouthparts. ”
After speaking, the person in charge also gave Ye Luo and each of them a handbook about bees.
Ye Luo looked at it curiously, Rokhard
Sen was not interested, so he chatted with the person in charge without a word.
The detailed introduction in the manual gave Ye Luo a deeper understanding of honey.
In fact, he always thought that bees feed on flowers, but after reading the information in the manual, he realized that his education level was really too poor.
It turns out that bees do not feed exclusively on flowers, but also on pollen and nectar.
The latter can be prepared and stored as honey.
There is no doubt that bees pollinate flowers as if they were pollinating flowers, and when bees collect pollen from among flowers, they drop some pollen onto the flowers.
These dropped pollen are important because they often cause cross-pollination of plants.
The actual value of bees as pollinators is greater than the value of their production of honey and beeswax.
Drones usually don't live long, don't collect pollen, and don't feed their young.
Worker bees are responsible for all the work of building nests and storing food, and often have a special structure to facilitate the transport of pollen.
Most bees collect pollen from a variety of flowers, but some only collect pollen from certain families, some only from certain colors, and some only from related flowers.
The mouth of the bee is a pollen collector and carrying utensil, and it seems to be adapted to a variety of different kinds of flowers. The bee makes sounds because it has a vocal organ located in two extremely small black dots on the bee's abdomen.
The queen bee lays eggs in the nest room, the larvae live in the nest room, and the socialization is operated, and the larvae of life are fed by the worker bees, and the larvae of the life feed on the bee food stored in the nest room by the female bee, and when the bee food is eaten, the larvae mature and pupate, and break out of the cocoon when they emerge.
Domestic bees breed for several generations a year, and wild bees breed for 1~3 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.
In bee societies, they still live a matrilineal clan life.
A bee goes through four processes of change in its life: egg, larva, pupae and adult.
Among the members of their large family of groups is a queen bee (queen, who is a female bee with the ability to live and reproduce, who is responsible for laying eggs and reproducing offspring, while 'dominating' the extended family.
Although the queen bee has been mated and mated, not all the eggs laid have been fertilized.
It can lay fertilized eggs according to the needs of the large family of the group, worker bees that lay fertilized eggs and feed them with pollen, bees develop into female bees after 21 days (worker bees without the ability to give birth and reproduce, can also lay unfertilized eggs and develop into male bees 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.
The process of swarming is like this, with worker bees creating special hives, another name is 'wangtai'.
The queen bee lays fertilized eggs in the king, after the small larvae hatch, the worker bees give special treatment, feed with the highly nutritious royal jelly made in their bodies, and when the small larvae develop into adults after 16 days, it becomes a new queen bee with reproductive ability, and the old queen bee leads a part of the worker bees to fly to another new group.
Both the Oriental and Western bees are commonly bred beneficial insects, and in the process of breeding, the new queen bee must be artificially divided for it after it is born, otherwise there will be a queen bee who will lead a group of worker bees to leave the hive and fly away and lose the productivity of the colony.