Speaking of Italian bees, I believe many of our friends have heard of it, and for us beekeepers, it is even more familiar. Literally we can tell that this is a bee, and not a native bee of our country.
Not bad! Italian bee is a kind of bee from Western countries, in a long time ago was introduced to our country, after a hundred years of development, now the number of Italian bees in our country has been very large, can even be said to be equivalent to the number of bees native to China, if you only count the artificial breeding of bees, the number of Italian bees has far exceeded the number of Chinese bees native to China.
Since there are bees in China, many friends are not clear, why does China not breed its own native bees, but breed a kind of Western bees introduced from abroad? Even if we do not understand the Western bees, I believe that many friends have seen the news of the contradiction between the beekeepers of the Italian bee and the beekeepers of the Chinese bees, that is to say, the Italian bees, as an exotic species, have great harm to the native Chinese bees in China, and even have become the main contradiction between the two types of bee farmers, now let's look at the specific situation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" >why do beekeepers fall in love with Italian bees? </h1>
In fact, the Italian bee has a lot of shortcomings, first of all, the Italian bee anti-mite ability is poor, followed by the Poor cold and heat resistance of the Italian bee, and finally the Italian bee has a large amount of food, so the breeding of Italian bees, first of all, the quality of honey and the quality of the Chinese bees as a whole can not be compared, the most serious problem is that the Italian bee bee products, it is very useful to be able to exceed the standard, but in the end it is still a large number of breeding, in fact, the main interests exist.
Although the Italian bee has a lot of deficiencies, but the advantages are also very obvious, such as honey, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, bee pollen in the bee products we often hear, Chinese bees in addition to being able to produce beeswax and honey, although there are others, but can not be mass production, or even can not produce. And can produce honey and beeswax production compared with the Italian bees can only be regarded as a rarity, want to meet a large number of market demand, Chinese bees simply can not do, China's royal jelly production, honey production are the world's first, its credit can be said to have nothing to do with the Chinese bees, this is the value of the Italian bees.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > the harm of Italian bees to Chinese bees</h1>
The above bee tribe xiaobian said that the harm of Italian bees to Chinese bees is very large, mainly because of the size advantages and their own advantages of Italian bees.
The world of bees is also like the world of humans, if the bees can be fed at any time, the bee colony and the bee colony can coexist peacefully, but if there is a shortage of honey sources outside, then there will be a war for food between the bee colony and the bee colony, and the contradiction between the Chinese bee and the Italian bee is mainly this.
For the Italian bee, the Italian bee has two advantages in the process of competing with the Chinese bee for food, (1) the size advantage: for the bees to compete for food, the main bee in the competition is the worker bee in the swarm, and the italian bee's worker bee is much larger than the Chinese bee, when competing for food, the Italian bee can easily defeat the Chinese bee, although on the surface it seems that the Chinese bee is more aggressive, wild, and more strategic, but after all, it is too small, in the face of absolute strength, The fighting power of the Chinese bee is still significantly inferior to that of the Italian bee.
(2) Physical advantage: In the world of bees, the queen bee and the worker bee are homely, but the male bee is a kind of bee without a home, that is to say, as long as it is the same kind of bee, the male bee can enter any bee colony at will without being blocked by the worker bee.
The way a worker bee wants to block a bee entering the group is mainly judged by smell, while for male bees, it is mainly judged by the frequency with which the male bees flapp their wings. There is a very interesting problem here, that is, the size of the worker bee of the Italian bee is exactly similar to the size of the male bee of the Chinese bee, and the more fatal point is that the frequency of the worker bee of the Italian bee is also very close to the frequency of the male wing of the Chinese bee, resulting in the italian bee worker bee can be mistaken by the worker bee of the Chinese bee as the male bee of the Chinese honey bee, and then smoothly enter the swarm of the Chinese bee, kill the queen of the Chinese bee, resulting in the loss of the Chinese bee, and the serious final colony is destroyed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > where can Chinese bees retreat? </h1>
With the Italian bee in our country breeding scale is getting bigger and bigger, the Chinese bee is also more and more affected, now many parts of our country have no artificial breeding of Chinese bees, and even many plains have not seen the figure of Chinese bees, the main reason is the large number of Italian bees invasion, it can be said that as long as there is a large number of Italian bees distributed in the area, Chinese bees are difficult to survive, long time may even be extinct, this has been confirmed in the plains.
In the case of a large number of Italian bees breeding, in fact, the Chinese bees have retreated in a large number, the plain area, the area with convenient transportation "ceded" to the Italian bee, but due to the rapid development of traffic in recent years, the expansion of the scale of bee breeding, resulting in the breeding of beekeepers also have many problems, and it is already common for the people who breed bees to bee.
In the case of beekeeping sites affected, many beekeepers who breed Italian bees move the location of bees to the mountains, and now in many remote mountainous areas we can already see beekeepers chasing flowers and honey, these bees are not native Chinese bees, but Italian bees imported from abroad.
In the past, due to underdeveloped traffic, people who breed Italian bees want to find bee bee places for bees, usually close to the road, which leads to Italian bees wanting to enter the countryside is very difficult, remote mountain areas have become the last territory of Chinese bees, and now traffic development, Italian bees do not say into the countryside, even the deep mountains can easily enter, which will be a fatal blow to Chinese bees.
Although the Chinese bee products are not as rich as the Italian bees, but because of its small size, sensitive flight, in fact very suitable for forest life, this small size, but also for the Chinese bees to collect sporadic honey sources to provide conditions, this advantage is the Italian bees do not have, and this feature is also destined to be the Honey brewed by the Chinese bees, the taste and composition will be different from the Italian bees, for the stability of the ecology and the maintenance of biological diversity, the Chinese bees are still indispensable, Nowadays, the unlimited spread of Italian bees throughout the country under convenient transportation conditions does pose a huge threat to Chinese bees, do you think?