Bees fly at speeds of 20-40 km/h, at altitudes of less than 1 km, and have an effective range of up to 2.5 km from the nest.

All bees feed on pollen and nectar, collecting nectar is a very hard work, bees interview 1100-1446 flowers to get 1 honey sac nectar, during the nectar flow period a bee collects an average of 10 times a day, each time the average nectar carrying is half of its body weight, a lifetime can only provide 0.6 grams of honey for humans.

When the nectar is sucked into the honey sac by the bee, it is mixed with the secretions of the upper jaw glands, invertase.

The conversion of sucrose begins here, and the honey is repeatedly brewed, and the juice is constantly fanned to evaporate the water, accelerating the transformation and concentration until the honey is fully ripe.

Depending on the species, the number of worker bees generally ranges from 12 to more than 50,000, and they collect nectar and pollen, and in the case of bees, they also transmit nectar and pollen to specific places, which are obtained by dancing special and strict dances.

At the same time, the duties of the worker bees also include making honey, making waxy hives for the hive, which are for food storage and larvae to live in, as well as taking care of the bees and queen bees, and guarding the hive.

Bees are a perennial colony, and new queens will be raised over the years, and the old queens will then leave the hive with a group of worker bees to rebuild a home elsewhere.

There are many drones, and there may be nearly a thousand in a group.

The drone's only duty is to mate with the queen, mate, mate, and when the queen flies out of the nest, the drones in the whole colony then chase after her, a move called a wedding flight.

The queen bee's marriage flight mate selection is carried out through a flying competition, and only the winning one becomes a mate.

After mating and mating, the drone's life and breeding organs fall off in the life and breeding organs of the queen bee, and at the same time, the drone has completed its life's mission and died.

Those drones who failed to mate with the queen bee returned to the nest, only knew how to eat and drink, and could not collect honey, and became redundant 'lazy men' in the bee colony.

However, these drones are constantly flapping their wings in the hive, unintentionally maintaining the temperature in the hive as well.

It's just that after a long time, the worker bees will expel them from the country.

Even beekeepers are reluctant to keep too many drones in their colonies and consume honey, so they are manually eliminated.

From this point of view, worker bees are the most abundant in this group.

The number of worker bees that beekeepers keep in a colony varies from season to season, but is generally 20,000 to 50,000 worker bees.

Worker bees are the most industrious, and the children's song of 'little bees, busy all day long, collecting nectar, making honey', only refers to the worker bees.

In addition to pollination and honey making, nesting, feeding larvae, cleaning the environment, and protecting bee colonies are also tasks for worker bees.

From spring to late autumn, bees are busy every day during the flowering season.

Winter is the only short period of rest for bees.

However, due to the cold weather, the low temperature inside the hive, it is not good for the bees because the bee is ectothermic, and its body temperature changes with the temperature of the surrounding environment.

The clever little bee has come up with a special way to protect against the cold.

When the temperature in the nest is as low as 13 °C, they are close to each other in the hive and form spherical clusters together, the lower the temperature, the tighter the clumps, so that the surface area of the bee group is reduced, the density increases, and the temperature is prevented from cooling too much.

It has been measured that the temperature inside the bee ball can still be maintained at about 24°C at the coldest time.

Female bees do not build nests and lay eggs inside the host's nest.

Young larvae generally have a large head and palate that are used to destroy the host's eggs or larvae.

Bees' nesting instincts are complex, and nesting locations, times, and nest structures are diverse.

The nesting time is generally during the full flowering period of the plant.

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According to the location of the nest and the texture of the nest, it can be divided into several types.

The first is social, and the living species use their own secreted wax as their spleen, such as bees, stingless bees, wheat bees, etc., and the nest is hexagonal.

The second is that the largest number of nests are built in the soil, and the inside of the nest chamber is coated with a mixture of wax and saliva to maintain the humidity in the nest chamber.

The third is that the use of plant tissues to build nests is more diverse, for example, the leafcutter wasp can roll the leaves of plants into a cylinder to form a nest chamber, which is placed in a natural cavity.

For example, the genus yellow-spotted wasp uses plant hairs to make wart-like nests on the stems, the genera Aloids and Phyllus spp. build nests in the stems of dead plants, some species of the genus Bumblebee nest under the litter of the woods, and the genus Carpidiosp drills holes in the wood as nests, etc.

The last one is that other species such as the stone wasp use saliva to bond small sand and gravel into nests, and the wall bee genus builds nests in slug shells.

In general, hives are scattered and scattered.

But there are also the same species of bees that have been nesting in one location for many years, thus forming a nest colony.

For example, the number of nests in the genus Trichopods can reach dozens or even hundreds.

A single hive is composed of hexagonal bee chambers one by one, which is the most material-saving.

Although bees live in groups, there is no collusion between the colony and the colony.

The hive contains a large amount of feed, and in order to defend against the invasion of bees and other insects and animals, the bees have formed the ability to guard the hive, and the sting needle is the main self-defense organ of the bees.

Bees have a keen sense of smell, and they are able to identify bees in an outward colony based on their smell.

There are often bees guarding the entrance of the nest to prevent the bees from entering the nest casually.

When there is a shortage of honey, bees that are not part of the colony often sneak into the nest to steal honey, and the guard bees immediately fight.

But outside the hive, the situation is different, such as in the flowers or in the drinking place, where different groups of bees are together, not hostile to each other, and do not interfere with each other.

The female bee that flies out to mate and mate sometimes staggers into the outer swarm, and the worker bees immediately surround it and stab the female bee.

If the drone wants to stagger into the outer group, the situation is different, and the worker bee does not harm it, because the bee breeds the drone not only for the needs of the colony, but also for the survival of the race.

The sex of an organism is not necessarily determined by sex, chromosomes, in bees and ants, sex is determined by the number of chromosomes or the number of groups of chromosomes, not sex, chromosomes.

In particular, bees and ants have no sex or chromosomes in their bodies!

Both queen bees and worker bees are females and are developed from fertilized eggs, each somatic cell contains 32 chromosomes, two chromosome sets, which are diploid, and the number of drone bees in the group is very small, and it is developed from unfertilized egg cells, and somatic cells contain 16 chromosomes, one chromosome group, which is haploid.

Bees are made up of queen bees, drone bees, and worker bees, where the queen and worker bees develop from fertilized eggs, and drones develop from unfertilized egg cells.

The queen bee and worker bees were diploid 2n = 32, and the drone bee was haploid (n = 16.

In the process of producing sperm and children, haploid drones undergo a special form of meiosis in its spermatocytes.

In the first division of meiosis, the number of chromosomes does not change, but the cytoplasm is divided into two parts of different sizes.

The big part contains the complete nucleus, and the small part is just a mass of cytoplasm.

After a while, the degradation will disappear. The second division of the meiotic is the first ordinary mitosis.

In the mass of cytoplasm containing the nucleus, the chromatids are separated from each other, while the cytoplasm divides unequally, and the part containing more cytoplasm (containing 16 chromosomes) develops further

The sperm, seeds, and parts with less cytoplasm (which also contain 16 chromosomes) gradually degenerate.

The 1 spermatozoa, mother cell, through this meiosis, produces only 1 sperm, sperm, spermatocyte, and spermatozoa, the sperm are all haploid cells.

This particular meiosis is called 'false meiosis'.

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It took about an hour, Ye Luo finally finished reading the manual introduced by bees, and had to sigh in his heart, like those creatures with a race, they are actually no different from humans, and everyone has their own way of life.

After reading the introduction, Ye Luo plans to see it with his own eyes and then decide which one to raise from the many different species of bees.

The two of them followed the introduction of the person in charge all the way to watch, and most of the bees were about the same size as described in the manual, a small part of them were smaller, and the other small part was larger.

But what made it difficult for Ye Luo to make a choice was that he found that he seemed to have the idea of buying all the species of bees back to raise.

However, Ye Luo knew that what he needed was the best honey, so he said his request: "Man, I want to know which bee produces the best honey?"

"The best?"

The person in charge was a little puzzled, but he quickly understood what Ye Luo was talking about, and immediately cried and laughed: "No, no, man, I think you may have misunderstood, whether honey is good or not actually has little to do with bees, it mainly depends on whether the pollen and nectar in the flowers are good or not. ”

Ye Luo nodded abruptly and continued to ask, "Then can you tell me which bee produces the most honey?"

"At most, it should be Iwamine, but I'm sorry, we don't have it here. ”

The person in charge said with a wry smile: "Because this kind of bee likes to migrate, and there are no cases of artificial breeding, it is generally only encountered in the wild if you are lucky, however, we can recommend that you choose a subspecies of the Oriental bee, the Chinese bee." ”

Ye Luo perked up and asked, "What kind of bee is the middle bee?"

"The Chinese bee, also known as the Chinese bee and the earth bee, has a small body, a black cephalothorax, a yellow-black abdomen, and a yellow-brown fluff all over the body. ”

The person in charge took the initiative to introduce: "This variety is a unique bee master variety in China, specializing in the forest community dominated by miscellaneous trees and the main pollinator of traditional agriculture, with the use of sporadic nectar source plants, strong collection power, high utilization rate, long honey collection period and adaptability, strong resistance to mites and diseases, less consumption of feed and many other varieties of bees can not be compared, very suitable for fixed-point breeding." ”

"Okay, then buy the bee you said. ”

After Ye Luo heard that Zhongmi was a bee belonging to Huaxia, he instantly made a decision: "So what is the price of a box?"

"Sir, bees are generally not sold in boxes, but in boxes (spleen), and the prices vary from place to place. ”

The person in charge said a little helplessly: "Under normal circumstances, the bees are about 200 yuan a box, and at the same time, the price of bees in different seasons is also different, usually more expensive in winter." Moreover, good varieties of bees are also more expensive, for example, the price of medium bees is more than 20% more expensive than other bees, and there is a box of bee colonies, the price is half more expensive than normal, the more queen bees, the more expensive the price, which one do you want?"

"Of course, it's the kind of queen bee that has a lot of bees, I want as many as I want!" Ye Luo showed his local tyrant demeanor!

The person in charge couldn't hide his joy: "We have less than three hundred boxes of this kind of thing you said at present, and there are ten queen bees in each box, and I can give you a discount on the price of each box, which is one thousand and five!"

"No problem, the price is as you say, I want it all. "Ye Luo is not short of this money at all, he is too lazy to bargain.

In the end, Ye Luo 'caught all the more than 300 boxes of more than king bees in the farm'.