Regarding the question of what is white in the tail of the bee, the specific bee tribe believes that from the perspective of the bee species and different types of bees, according to the understanding of the bee tribe on the bee, whether it is a worker bee or a male bee and a queen bee, it is possible that the tail will appear white, only some are normal phenomena, some are not normal, and we can look at it from the following aspects.
1. The queen bee's tail appears white
2. The tail of the worker bee appears white
3. The male bee tail appears white
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If the queen bee's tail appears white, the bee tribe believes that it can be divided into two situations, one is the problem of the bee species, and the other is the return of the queen bee after the tail.
(1) Bee species problem: Bee species are more, different types of bees are not the same color, if there is no reproductive isolation between bees of different colors, hybridization, breeding offspring may appear color differences, white villi appear on the tail, we look at the tail is white. But such a queen bee tribe has not yet been seen, so this possibility is not great. If we count part of the abdomen as the tail, it is still possible if the color distinction is not clear.
(2) Queen bee tail return: For the queen bee, the queen bee is with a number of male bees to cross the tail, in this process the queen of the bee will have a male bee's genitals together with part of the internal organs are stuck in the tail of the queen bee, until the queen of the tail is completed, and finally the genitals and internal organs of a male bee that has crossed the tail with the queen will remain in the queen bee's tail, and the worker bees will be cleaned up after the queen returns to the nest, so if there is a queen in our swarm, and it is the time when the queen crosses, What we may see is the male bee genitals and internal organs that the queen bee crosses back and leaves behind in the queen bee's tail.
This phenomenon is a normal phenomenon, and beekeepers usually use this phenomenon to determine whether the queen bee has successfully crossed the tail, which is called the sign of the successful tail of the queen bee.
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If there is material in the tail of the worker bee, usually we also divide into three cases, one is a genetic phenomenon, one is the phenomenon of parasitic bees, and the other is that the tail of the bee is exposed to white matter.
(1) Genetic phenomenon: If it is a genetic phenomenon, in fact, it is the same as the queen bee, and it is also possible that the color of the hybridization is different, because the queen bee itself is also a special worker bee, and when the tail is crossed, it will cross the tail with multiple male bees, as long as it is the same species of bees, the cross tail can produce offspring. Especially in the middle of the bee, the middle bee waist originally has a white ring, if we look at the back half of the abdomen as the tail, then this phenomenon is very common, is a normal phenomenon, as long as the bee is normal.
(2) Parasitic bee phenomenon: For bees, bees will also be parasitic, of which we are most familiar with the parasitism of bee mites, but in addition to bee mites, there are some other parasitic insects, such as parasitic flies, parasitic bees and the like, these parasitic bees are born eggs in the place where the bees are weak, the larvae hatch into the bees, and develop in the bees to feed on the bees' body fluids until finally the bees die.
According to the observation of the bee tribe, there will also be such a phenomenon in guizhou, the worker bee crawling phenomenon, some bees look dead, but still move, in the beekeeping industry often call the parasitic bee phenomenon zombie bee, in fact, the white substance we see is not the real white color, but the larvae of the parasitic bee.
According to the observation of the bee tribe, this larvae will come out of the tail after the bee appears to crawl, and if we pull it out by hand, we can see a relatively complete insect body, and such a phenomenon is basically a parasitic bee. So how do we deal with this situation? The first is to bury or burn the infected bees deeply, and then use a white plate on the hive to attract parasitic bees, which like white and will be drowned when they enter the water.
(3) The tail of the bee is exposed to white matter: because the worker bee has to carry out a lot of work outside the nest, resulting in the worker bee often in contact with different substances, even when picking flowers will also collect flowers of different colors, if the bees are covered with white substances on the body when collecting, such as pollen, it is also possible that we see that the tail of the bee is white, this situation as long as the bee is normal, we do not have to pay attention.
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If the male bee tail appears white material, as above, the first is to exclude whether it is a genetic phenomenon, followed by to see if it is parasitic, because the number of male bees in the bee colony is relatively small, the general parasitic bee phenomenon is not obvious, so the bee tribe believes that the male bee tail is white is unlikely.