As the saying goes, "there is no wonder in the world", many common animals in our lives will always reveal a lot of interesting information to us, and even a lot of human beings need to use their brains to think of methods, I have to say that animals are sometimes really smart.
When we were young, many of our friends learned a text called "Crows Drink Water", which left a deep impression on us, that is, crows are really very smart, thinking of ways to raise the surface height of water by using stones, as well as the story of ants "grazing" aphids, etc., all reflect the wisdom of animals.
In fact, when it comes to animal intelligence, we have to say that there is an insect that we are very familiar with, that is, bees. Bees are highly socialized social insects, and there is a unique species of bee in China, that is, the middle bee.
In the past, China's bees were mainly medium bees, and later China introduced Italian bees, resulting in different types of honey in China, because of the difference in the collection habits of chinese bees and Italian bees, which also led to great differences in the honey composition of chinese bees and Italian bees.
Referring to the difference in the collection of chinese bees and Italian bees, the small editor of the bee tribe believes that in addition to the difference in the artificial domestication of the bees, it is the difference in individual size, and the difference in individual size, from the perspective of honey collection, the length of the bee's kiss is a factor that has a greater impact on honey collection.
Due to the backward beekeeping technology in the past, China's beekeeping basically exists in a semi-wild breeding mode, so the habits of bees can be observed very little, with the continuous advancement of the live frame breeding technology of the bees, the habits of the bees are now slowly being discovered, one of which is the "honey digging" habit of the bees.
We all know that bees belong to the main pollinating insects in nature, and usually bees just fly on the flowers and suck up the nectar, but if the nectar is "poached", is this good or bad for the nectar source plant? Today, the small editor of the bee tribe will share this problem with you.
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The behavior of honey picking by bees is actually a process of bees sucking away the pollen in the flowers of honey source plants after the honey source plant begins to flow nectar, but we all know that the honey source plants outside are diverse, and the location of the nectar is also different, if the bees want to suck away the nectar in the flowers, they need a condition, that is, the kiss of the bee can reach the nectar, because the nectar may be at the bottom of the flower, and the kiss of the bee is too long in the middle to reach it, so it is said that the bee is a prerequisite for honey picking, Theoretically, it is possible that the length of the bee's snout and the length of the flower are at least the same, and the plants in nature whose flowers are longer than the bee's snout are objectively existent, such as the locust we often say.
After the nectar of the locust is made into honey, we call it acacia honey, this honey is mainly collected by Italian bees, but with the continuous advancement of the live frame breeding technology of the bee, many friends have found that in some places, the bees in some places have also collected acacia honey.
According to the data, the snout length of the bee is not as long as the length of the flower tube of the locust flower, which to a certain extent, if according to the normal honey collection method, the bee can not collect the locust nectar at all, but it is true that the beekeepers found that the bee did collect the locust nectar in the actual breeding, but the purity is not as high as the Italian bee collection, so what is the specific reason?
According to the current observation, the fact that the bee collects locust nectar is mainly collected by "digging", due to the short length of the bee's kiss, it is difficult to collect the nectar of the locust flower through the flower tube, and in the actual breeding, the bee friends found that the bee will bite the flower pipe of the locust flower, and then collect the locust nectar, which is the origin of the bee locust nectar, and it is also a fact that the bee "digs honey".
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From the perspective of actual breeding, the fact that bees "dig honey" can be said to exist objectively, it may be said that not only the bees have such habits, but the Italian bees also have this habit, but we have not found it, if the bees have a large number of this habit, does it mean that it will have a huge impact on the development of honey source plants? The bee tribe editor thinks this worry is superfluous.
As far as the current discovery is concerned, in fact, as long as the honey source plant collected by the bee by biting open, the amount is not very large, just like the locust nectar collected by the bee, the amount is not as large as that of the Italian bee, usually there is a large amount of other nectar mixed in it, in fact, this is also related to the collection habits of the bees.
Because the collection habit of bees is biased towards the habit of convenient collection, for the process of biting and mining honey, it is a very difficult process for bees, bees need to consume a lot of physical strength, if there is a choice, bees will not choose to collect such nectar.
From the structure of the flower, the general flower is finally to wither, the part that the bee bites open, in fact, is also the withered part of the flower, even if a small hole is dug out, in fact, the impact on the flower is not large, even if the bee bites open when the seed germination part of the flower is injured, this amount is also very small, so the bee tribe Xiaobian believes that the bee "digging honey" behavior will not have much impact on the development of the honey source plant, this effect we can ignore.
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As mentioned above, beekeepers in some places have found that bees collect locust nectar, while beekeepers in some places say that bees cannot collect locust nectar. In life, we all know that in fact, many methods are forced out, and the behavior of bees "digging honey" is the same.
In actual farming, when many beekeepers find that bees will flower and collect honey, they think that bees are very smart and will try their best to collect honey. This idea is true, but if we see bees collecting honey by biting the flowering tube, we will look closely and find that there may be no other honey source plants nearby except for the honey source plant that the bees bite to mine the honey.
That is to say, bees "digging honey" is not a normal collection habit of bees, but a behavior produced under duress, if our bees to collect those very difficult to collect nectar, indicating that the nearby honey source plants have been lacking, this time in the bee colony is very prone to problems, there are mainly the following:
(1) Bee theft: The bee stealing is the process of stealing honey from the bee swarm in the case of fewer honey source plants, the strong swarm of bees quietly sneaking into the weak swarm of bees to steal the honey in the weak swarm, this process is often happening in the actual breeding, especially during the honey shortage period, we can often see some bees fighting at the nest door, this time is the guard bees intercepting the bees who come to steal honey.
If we do not stop the stolen bees in time, in the end, there may be the destruction of the stolen bees or the escape of the swarm, which shows that this result is still very serious.
(2) Lack of honey: We all know that honey is brewed from the sap of honey source plants collected by bees, and bees work hard to collect honey every day, the purpose is to collect these nectar when there are honey source plants blooming outside, brew it into honey, and then go outside to eat when the honey source is exhausted or in winter, so the hard work of bees is actually making long-term plans, if our bee swarm is weak, there is no collection of a large amount of honey source during the honey flow period, it is possible to collect more nectar because of lack of honey, As a result, the bees are hungry, and finally the bees steal honey or escape.
In summary, the so-called bee "digging honey" behavior, in fact, is not a good phenomenon, at least it shows that the local honey source plant structure is single, the outside world can collect less honey source, once the bee is found to have this behavior, we should pay special attention to whether there is no honey source plant in the bee colony, we should also pay attention to a thinking, that is, see the outside flowering a lot of bees can be collected, but also combine the types of bees and the characteristics of honey source plants, to see if the bees can be collected, otherwise even if the honey source plants outside the large flow of honey, However, bees cannot be collected, and can only be regarded as a lack of honey, and the same should pay attention to bee theft and subsidized feeding.
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