Bees are a small insect and also belong to a smaller group of bees. However, bees can make honey, so that this stinging insect seems to become cute, and the relationship with humans seems to be a clear line with those who do not sting, etc.
How big is the biggest bee? Recently, some netizens found a large bee in the mountains of western Yunnan, which is 2 to 3 times the size of ordinary bees, with a darker color, the lower abdomen is close to black, and the honey-rich honeycomb honey cake made on the edge of the cliff is as large as a pot lid.
This kind of bee is actually a Himalayan bee, mainly in the Himalayas at an altitude of 1000 ~ 4000 meters above sea level of life on the cliffs, is the world's highest living bee, usually also known as the black bee, also known as the Himalayan rock bee or snow mountain bee, in the border with the Himalayas in Pakistan, India, northern Nepal, as well as China's southern Tibet and Hengduan Mountains and nearby areas have distribution, usually mainly in this area of the mountain snow line under the snow line where there are flowers and plants, You can see the traces of this bee.
The Himalayan honey bee is a subspecies of the Oriental Honey Bee, also considered to be the largest bee in the world, the working bee of this bee is 11 to 18 mm long, the largest can reach about two centimeters, but there are also some differences in body characteristics in different regions and types.
It is wild, semi-wild or domestically located in the distribution area. Wild Himalayan bee colonies mostly inhabit the cliffs protruding under the rocks, tree holes, caves and other hidden places, the number of bees in each swarm is about 15,000 to 35,000, the hive honey cake produced by the bee colony is very huge, usually as large as the lid of the steamed steamed bun, and some even up to 3 meters wide, which is the favorite honey cake of wild honey pickers.
This bee also has a long flight distance, can fly to the nest diameter of 2 kilometers away from the place to collect honey, entomologists also found that this bee has the habit of migration, when summer comes, this bee will migrate to the cool area of the mountain to build nests to make honey, when winter comes, they will migrate to a warmer place at the foot of the mountain to establish a hive for winter, and when the hive or swarm encounters danger, the entire swarm will abandon the hive transfer and find a new suitable place to rebuild the hive to survive.
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