Introduction: The yellow and yellow things stuck to the feet of bees, generally speaking, the most common is pollen, although the sticky bees' feet may not all be pollen, but for our common, or pollen is more, sometimes not necessarily yellow, there may be other colors, but also according to the different species of bees May be stuck on the feet of the things are also different, let's take a closer look.
What can be glued to the bees' feet?
Many friends think that bees have pollen baskets on their feet, so bees can only have pollen on their feet, but this is not the case strictly speaking. Here we first explain that the pollen on the bee's feet is not stuck on it, but inside, because the bee leg has a pollen basket structure, which is actually equivalent to a container, so the bee pollen we see is actually packed in the pollen basket, but it is too full we look like it is stuck on the leg, the pollen is some small particles, and it is wet, the bee is no way to stick the pollen ball made on the foot to bring it back to the hive, so the pollen is installed on the bee leg.
From the structure of the bee pollen frame, for the bee, the general bee pollen box will only contain pollen, but if it is a bee, this is not necessarily, because the bee will pick glue, the bee will not, and when the bee picks glue, the collected gum or resin is also installed in the pollen basket, so the pollen basket of the bee, strictly speaking, the bee only carries pollen, and the bee carries pollen and propolis.
Why is pollen yellow?
When we see bee pollen, most of the time the pollen is yellow, so does it mean that the pollen must be yellow? In fact, it is not like this, but most of the pollen we can see is such a color, the color of pollen is related to the color of the pollen plant flowers collected by the bees, for example, after the rape pollen bees are collected, we can see that it is yellow, but the color we can see after the collection of corn pollen bees is brown, so it is not that the pollen is yellow, but it is related to the color of the honey source plant flowers collected by the bees.
How do bees put pollen in pollen boxes?
The process of bees collecting pollen can be said to be all involved in the whole body, the body of the bee is a layer of fluff, there are scraping powder and inlaid pollen on the legs and various "tools" for tamping pollen, the bee uses the body to adhere to the pollen particles on the body, using the coordination of each limb, and finally put the pollen into the pollen box to bring back to the hive.
What is pollen for bees?
Many friends think that pollen is the material of bees to make honey, the main purpose of bees collecting pollen is to make nectar, in fact, bees collect pollen and make honey is not directly related, because when the bees collect honey, we are not invisible, when the bees collect honey, they are not packed in the pollen basket, the nectar is liquid, the bees simply can't fit it, so when picking honey, the bees are packed in the honey stomach, only when the pollen is collected, they will be packed in the pollen box, and the honey we eat is actually made of nectar. Pollen is a source of nutrition for bees, bee nutrition has royal jelly, pollen, honey three kinds, pollen is generally used as larvae food and adult bees protein source.