Speaking of horse bees, I believe that many of our friends are not strangers, especially some time ago, horse bees also did a lot of big things in many parts of our country, not only attacking livestock, but also attacking people, even people living in rural areas, but also "talking about bee discoloration" for horse bees.
Careful observation will find that the wasp is gone in the winter, is it possible that the wasp, like many insects, hibernates and hides in the winter? In fact, it is not like this, the wasp belongs to the "annual" insects, after the winter is not hibernation, but death, no matter how many wasps, the life expectancy will not exceed 1 year, speaking of this, many friends are more curious, since the wasp will die before the winter every year, then how does the wasp die before the winter? Today, the small editor of the bee tribe will share this problem with you.
Horse bees are insects that live alone to live in groups, and every spring only queen bees will build nests independently, and then slowly develop from one, and finally thousands, when the number of horse bees reaches tens of thousands, it is actually the time when the bee colony is about to become extinct, so every time the bee colony develops to the peak, the horse bee will do "doomsday preparations".
What's going on? In fact, it is the wasp ready to inherit the next generation, the peak of the wasp, generally in the early autumn, the weather began to get cold but the temperature is not very low, at this time affected by the temperature, the queen bee in the bee colony began to breed breeding bees - queen bees and male bees.
When the queen bee and the male bee breed out, when the sexual maturity time breeding bees will fly out of the nest door to mate, and then the mating queen bee to find a warm place, hide and overwinter, and in the spring of the next year, come out to build an independent nest to lay eggs, and start the next journey, which is the last surviving wasp and male bee in the bee colony to die shortly after mating.
Since the last surviving wasps were only the queen bees after mating, it is clear that there are still three groups left in the bee colony, one is a large number of professional bees, the other is a small number of male bees, and the third is the queen bee, so how did these three groups die in the end? There are 2 ways
First: The queen bee dies first
In fact, whether the male bee is in a royal group or a royal group, it is the same, because the horse bee will only eat and will not do, the only role is mating, so no matter whether the last remaining queen bee in the bee colony or the professional bee, the male bee will eventually die.
If the breeding bee in the colony dies first after mating, then the last remaining bee in the colony is a group of professional bees. In the honeycomb, the queen wasp is to control other worker bees through pheromones, when the queen of the horse bee dies, the worker bee is not controlled by the pheromone, then the worker bee will be king, produce eggs, and then the worker bees compete with each other, and even kill each other, and finally forage is reduced, as the temperature decreases, freeze to death or hunger, the male bees in this process, also die together.
Second: The worker bee dies first
If the queen bee in the colony has a relatively large life and finally dies, then this process is to maintain normal order in the bee colony, but as the temperature decreases, the queen bee stops laying eggs, due to the large number of breeding bees in the early bee colony, resulting in the number of professional bees is not replenished, and finally even if the queen bee lays some eggs, it is difficult to hatch in the case of lack of food and colder weather.
In fact, the life of the worker bee is not long, generally about 3 months, after the autumn, with the temperature decreases, these worker bees want to go out more and more difficult, due to the early feeding and breeding of bees consume a lot of physical strength, these worker bees actually have a serious overdraft of life, and the wasps are not stock of food habits, when the temperature outside a large drop, the wasps in the cold wind are starved to death.
This is the final ending of the wasp, although it usually looks very dangerous and crazy, but when it dies, it is still more miserable, what do you think about this? Feel free to share below.