Friends who know about bees know that there are two kinds of bees that are mainly farmed in China, one is a native bee in China, also known as the Chinese bee, and the other is an Italian bee introduced from abroad.
Chinese bees and Italian bees have great differences in habits, because the Italian bees have undergone long-term domestication, the difference in their habits is not large, and the Chinese bees are often regionalized in China due to the low degree of domestication, and there are certain differences in the habits of Chinese bees in different regions, and the Chinese bees are wild, China is a multi-climate country, resulting in Chinese bees in different regions of Our country, its characteristics are not the same, so today we mainly discuss the problem, refers to the Chinese bees.
Friends who have farmed bees know that after entering the spring, the bees will carry out spring reproduction, and the time of different regions at different times will be different, but for most of the regions of our country, there will be a phenomenon before and after entering the Qingming Festival, that is, the phenomenon of bee fever, which appears in many places in China in the early march to April, and after the middle and late stage of April, the phenomenon of bee fever begins to disappear.
Recently, netizens often ask a question to the bee tribe, saying that the male bees in their bee colonies are driven out by the worker bees, or that when they return to the nest in the evening, the guard bees do not let the worker bees enter the nest. Why? In fact, we can also explain a more interesting problem when we combine the bee-splitting process of bees, that is, the death mating of bees, what is going on? Today, the small editor of the bee tribe will come to share with you.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" >What is bee-splitting fever? </h1>
In the above question, the bee tribe xiaobian mentioned the word sub-bee fever, here is a brief introduction. The so-called bee-sharing fever refers to the phenomenon that bees show before they split up. It is generally common to have an increase in male bees in the bee colony, the emergence of a royal platform, the production of bearded bees, the sabotage of worker bees, and the reduction of queen eggs.
It is mentioned here that a male bee is produced in a bee colony. One of the problems that this shows is that there are not male bees in the swarm at all times, that is to say, the appearance of male bees in the swarm is conditional, and generally only when there is a queen in the swarm that needs to mate or a queen is about to be produced, the male bee will exist in the swarm.
In the early stage of bee separation, it is obvious that male bees are needed in the bee colony at this time, so at this time, the male bees will be treated very well in the bee colony, and the treatment is basically similar to that of the queen bee.
Bees are highly socialized social insects, in fact, in addition to mating and spawning, other work is done by worker bees, including feeding the queen bee, in the bee division period, even male bees will be fed by worker bees, but once the bee colony does not need male bees, the fate of male bees is very miserable, at any time may be expelled by worker bees, and even the phenomenon of being slaughtered is also very common.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > dead mating of bees</h1>
The mating method of bees is very special, not done on the ground like many animals, but in the air, and it is a way for a queen bee to mate with multiple male bees, and the queen of bees stores a large number of sperm after mating with multiple males in a short period of time, and then uses them for life and no longer mates.
What is more interesting is that as long as the male bee that mates with the queen bee, there is no doubt that the death will be, because when the queen mates, it is the male bee that mates with the queen bee one by one, and when the mating is completed, the queen bee jams the male bee's genitals through the contraction of the tail, until the male bee breaks free and pulls out the genitals together with a part of the internal organs.
Then the next male bee pulls out the genitals of the previous male bee, continues to complete the process, until the queen bee is mated, takes the genitals and part of the internal organs of the last male bee back to the nest, the worker bee pulls out the genitals and part of the internal organs of the last male bee, after 2 to 3 days, the queen can lay eggs normally, and does not leave the nest for life except for separation, and has been laying eggs.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > the unimaginable bee death mating</h1>
Regarding the way the bees compete for mating, many friends can't figure it out, because the male bee chasing behind can see the death of the last male bee that is mating, such a cruel mating, it is reasonable to say that the male bees behind will give up because of fear, but it turns out that no matter how terrible the death of the male bees in front, the male bees in the back are still desperate to complete the process.
In the past, the bee tribe Xiaobian has introduced this problem, if we look at the whole process of mating, in fact, the main reason is that the male wasp is not controlled during mating, there are two main reasons, one is affected by the extrageric hormones released by the queen bee, and the other is affected by the internal organs left behind after the death of the male bee, according to some studies, the male bee internal organs that remain in the tail of the queen bee have a strong attraction to the male bees.
In fact, in addition to the above two problems, the phenomenon of the worker bees expelling the male bees by the bees in April also illustrates a problem, that is, even if they do not die in the process of mating with the queen bee, the fate of the male bees in the end is not good, because the male bees cannot survive alone outside, leaving the honeycomb, the fate of the male bees is either eaten by the enemy, or cold death, or frozen to death. It has to be said that as a male, mating death seems to be far better than starvation and freezing and being eaten.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="6" How to manage the male bee colony > worker bees expelled? </h1>
For April, generally after entering the middle and late April, many places in our country will appear obvious worker bees to expel male bees, aside from the death of male bees mating, in fact, this has a significant impact on our bee breeding, once the emergence of worker bees to expel male bees, if we do not pay attention to management, it will also bring great disasters to the bee colony.
In fact, if we look closely, we will find that in the actual breeding, the time for the worker bees to expel male bees is relatively fixed, and the characteristics are also very obvious, generally only when there is a lack of honey outside or when the bees are overwintering, the worker bees will expel the male bees, especially when the bees are overwintering, if the expulsion of male bees has resistance, a large number of male bees will also be slaughtered by the worker bees.
In terms of role, in addition to providing sperm to the bee colony, it seems that the male bee is meaningless to the bee colony, and will also consume a lot of food, the male bee's food is very large, it is three times that of the worker bee, there is no doubt that for a queen bee colony that has normally spawned eggs, the existence of the male bee will only be a burden in the bee colony, especially when the bees are wintering, the bee colony needs a lot of honey, and at this time, the male bee will cause great harm to the bee colony overwintering.
On the whole, we can find that if there is a worker bee expelling male bees, it means that there is a problem with the honey source, either the honey in the bee colony is less, or the honey source in the outside world is exhausted, no matter what kind of situation, it is fatal for the bee colony, so at this time we must pay attention to the management of the bee colony, because the external lack of honey, it is very easy to cause theft of bees, specific we can prevent from the following aspects.
(1) Pay attention to leaving rations for bees: Many friends are prone to a misunderstanding, thinking that April is still spring, and there are many flowers outside, so it is simple for bees to collect honey. In fact, after entering April, many places in our country outside the source of honey has been very little, because the rape flower has been thanked, this time is usually more is the locust flower, but the distribution of locust flowers is not everywhere, if the local honey source is single, once the rape flowering period is over, the bee colony may appear unable to collect honey phenomenon, thereby expelling male bees, so at this time we should pay attention to the bees to leave enough rations, to avoid the phenomenon of bee colonies starving and causing mutual theft between bee colonies.
(2) Strengthen the bee swarm: Before April, in fact, many places in China's honey source is very rich, because many places are rape flowering period, which is a major honey source that is very rich in the country, plus fruit trees and other honey source plants, the bee colony even if it is weak or even no royal group can also get better development, but after entering April, with a variety of nectar source plants flower Xie, if it is a small and medium-sized weak group, it is difficult to resist the theft of strong groups, so at this time we should pay attention to the merger of small and medium-sized weak groups and no-king groups, Let the swarm bee swarm as a whole strong, have a strong defensive ability, and avoid the occurrence of bee theft.
(3) Reduce the possibility of bee theft in the bee colony: We all know that the bee robber likes to enter the bee colony from the gap of the beehive and the time of unboxing inspection, so in the honey shortage period, it is necessary to reduce the opening of the box inspection, while paying attention to filling the gap in the hive, if there is a lack of honey in the bee colony needs to be fed, we must also pay attention to the scientific nature of feeding, to avoid syrup spilling and causing theft of bees.
(4) Conditional transfer: Now the traffic is more and more convenient, and the means of transportation are becoming more and more common, so even if it is a breeding bee, it is not difficult to transfer, so if we have the conditions for the transfer, we can transfer when the male bee is found to be expelled.
In summary, in fact, the real reason for the expulsion of male bees by worker bees is mainly because there is no need for male bees to exist in the swarm, and the depletion of external honey sources or the reduction of honey in the swarm, the existence of male bees will increase the risk of the swarm surviving the difficult period, from the perspective of the death and mating of male bees, it is not difficult to find that in fact, even if the male bees do not die during mating, the outcome after returning to the hive is either starved to death, or frozen to death, or eaten by the enemy, about these three ways of death, for a male, Undoubtedly more than dying during mating, what do you think about that? Welcome to leave a comment below, like a friend to click a follow, we will see you tomorrow.