For creatures in nature, whether it is animals or plants, it will change with the changes of the four seasons, such as plants blooming in the spring, fruiting in the autumn, and wilting in the winter, which can be said to be the changes of the plant's life.
In addition to plants, in fact, animals are constantly adapting to this environment with the changes of the four seasons, such as us making fires for warmth in winter and stripping away in the spring, which are our responses to environmental changes in the outside world.
Of course, people are higher animals, and the response that can be made is naturally advanced, and there are many animals in nature, and even bacteria, microorganisms, etc., they will also be affected by the environment, such as the dormancy of seeds, the hibernation of animals, etc., but some animals, although they look low-level, but they live out of a high-level state, such as bees are such insects.
Friends who know about bees know that bees are the most social animals invertebrates, the entire way of life is a social way of life, and with different seasons and different states in the bee colony, the situation of the bee colony is different, such as the honey in the bee colony is sufficient, the lack of honey, the bees have diseases and predators, the bee colony is out of the king, experienced beekeepers as long as they sit at the door of the hive to observe the problems, in order to solve the problems encountered in beekeeping, it can be said that the success rate of breeding is higher than that of general beekeepers.
Bees will also change with the changes of the four seasons, one of the more common manifestations is that after entering the autumn, the male bees in the bee colony will slowly become fewer, and finally disappear, and there are some special circumstances, these phenomena, in the modern bee farming, are gradually discovered by beekeepers, so why will the male bees in the bee colony slowly disappear after entering the autumn? Today, we will come to the bee tribe to reveal the secret to you.
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Regarding the disappearance of male bees in the bee colony in the autumn, according to the observation of our bee farm, there are some special phenomena, which are generally divided into three phenomena.
First: disappear completely
Quite simply, after the end of autumn, there are no male bees in the swarm.
Second: the demise of the swarm
After entering the late autumn period, a small number of bee colonies perished, and no cause could be found.
Third: There are male bees in the bee colony
Even though it is late autumn, there are still male bees in the bee colony.
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Regarding the disappearance of male bees in the autumn bee colony, in fact, many beekeepers have also found such a phenomenon in the past, but where the specific bees have gone, many beekeepers still can't find the answer.
With the continuous maturity of modern beekeeping technology, the problem of the disappearance of bees in the bee colony has gradually been discovered, in fact, as long as the careful beekeeper pays attention to observation, at the end of autumn, when entering the winter, we will find that the bees are very fond of fighting, in addition to the fight for food, there is also a siege or expulsion type of fight, which is not at all like the bee theft, because the occurrence of the bee theft, only occurs between the worker bee and the worker bee, and the expulsion or siege occurs between the worker bee and the male bee, which is after the autumn, The secret of the disappearance of male bees in a bee colony.
According to the observation of our bee farm and some reports, the reason why the bees will disappear in the autumn, mainly the so-called worker bees, the bees will no longer collect honey after winter, just in the honeycomb to hold the group for wintering, but will not hibernate, but this process usually does not involve the male bees, so the bees overwinter, the worker bees will drive the male bees in the bee colony out of the honeycomb, if the male bees do not go out, they will be expelled by the worker bees, or even slaughtered, which is why in the winter we often see the worker bees besieging or expelling the male bees.
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According to our observations, it is true that at the end of autumn, some of the bees in the swarm have male bees and some of them do not have swarms of bees, and there are actually not many swarms of bees, but careful beekeepers will still find out, so what is the specific reason for this phenomenon? The small editor of the bee tribe believes that it is related to the situation of our bee colony and the loss of kings.
First: group potential
In terms of swarm posture, according to our actual observations, the swarms that exterminate the swarms at the end of autumn are generally small and weak groups, and what is more interesting is that the male bees that are driven away do counterattack a bit, and the general male bees do not have the offensive power in the swarm, they are all attacked by the worker bees, but at the end of the autumn, if the bee colonies are too weak, the worker bees of other normal bees will expel the male bees, and these male bees will enter these small and medium-sized groups without going anywhere, because these small and medium-sized groups are not strong in defense, and the world of bees. Worker bees do not fortify the male bees, causing the males to eat the honey after entering the weak group, and finally the colony is destroyed.
Second: The Lost King
In addition to the weak group, there is also a situation that there is no queen bee swarm in the swarm, this swarm will receive the expelled male bees regardless of size, and finally lead to the large number of male bees in such a swarm, and finally it is difficult to overwinter, or directly before wintering, even if we let the bees enter the winter through feeding, it is generally difficult for this bee swarm to survive to the second year, the bee tribe Xiaobian believes that the main reason is because of the loss of the king, the swarm is not tight, and there is the presence of male bees that lead to wintering failure.
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For this phenomenon, many friends just see the appearance, think that this is a very cruel behavior, because experienced beekeepers, will be in the autumn, ready to overwinter when the bee to sort out the bee colony, so that the small and medium weak groups in the bee colony disappear, let the queen bee in the bee colony disappear, so that before the bee overwintering, a large number of male bees will be slaughtered by the worker bees or expelled to the outside of the hive to freeze and starve to death, it seems that it is indeed very cruel, but knowing the mystery, we have to admire the wisdom of the little bees.
In fact, the male bees in the bee colony are of little significance in the winter, and there is only harm to the bee colony. The reason is that the male bee eats very much, one male eats more than three worker bees, and the male has no other role except mating.
In the winter, the bee colony needs a lot of honey to survive the winter, this is the purpose of honey collection, in the good weather to collect and store honey, in the cold and rainy time to eat, the bees will not hibernate, and the main weapon against the cold winter is honey, the queen bee mating is to store sperm when mating, no longer mating for life, resulting in as long as the queen bee has mated, the male bees in the bee colony are meaningless.
It can be seen that the slaughter and expulsion of male bees by worker bees in autumn is of great significance to the success of bees in winter, and is the worker bees very smart?