What is the difference between a newly born bee and an old bee? The average person may not be able to answer, all the bees look similar, how can you see the changes in aging? If you are an experienced beekeeper, you may know the difference between aging bees and be able to judge the health and aging status of bees based on their body color and body hair.
As a beekeeper, it is necessary to be able to judge the health of the bee colony and the proportion of young bees, and to know whether the bee colony is in a good state of development. Today, let's talk about the role of bee body villi, and the relationship between villi and physical health and aging conditions, and master the secret of judging the condition of bee colonies!
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > changes and characteristics of young bees that have just come out of the house. </h1>
After more than 20 days of worm pupae period, the worker bee feathered out of the house! The young bees that have just come out of the room are weak, the color is light, the body is relatively weak and can not work, and it is gradually hardened after a few hours, the outer bone layer hardens, and the body color slowly becomes darker, and it grows into a normal body color in a day or two. If you look closely, the body of the young bee that has just come out of the room is still covered with villi, especially the cephalothorax hair is relatively dense.
After the young bee leaves the room, the physique is basically fixed, the difference is the flexibility of the body and the body color and fluff. Insects gradually harden their bodies after feathering, which is the norm, but the fluff on the bees' bodies is not available to all insects, and the effect is extraordinary.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the role of bee body villi. </h1>
All the bees in the swarm, including the queen bee, the male bee, and the worker bee have villi on their bodies, but the queen bee and the male bee are only responsible for the task of breeding, and only the worker bee is the real laborer. Worker bees can collect nectar pollen from a wide variety of flowers, which is certainly difficult to do without the tools for collecting. To collect nectar, bees have syringe-like mouthparts that attract nectar and tongue-chewing pollen for easy collection and brewing. However, pollen is granular, and if you want to collect scattered pollen particles, you need different utensils. Fluff is an important tool for worker bees to collect pollen.
It is precisely because plants need bees to complete the pollination work that they will use sweet honey powder to attract bees to collect. For bees, collecting nectar is important, but for plants, it is most important to complete pollination. Whether it is a worker bee to collect nectar or pollen, it needs to play a role in pollination. The fluff of the bee's body can successfully complete the pollination task.
Nectar and pollen are in the flower bud part of the flower, and the flower bud part is where pollen needs to be pollinated. When the work falls on the flowers and begins to collect nectar pollen, the villi of the body, including the legs, are easily stained with pollen. Worker bees collect on this flower and that flower, and can easily complete the pollination work during the activity. Whether it is collecting nectar or pollen, the pollination work can be done well.
The development of the bee colony requires the consumption of pollen, and when collecting pollen, the villi of the body are even more important. When the worker bees collect pollen, they first roll in the flower buds and deliberately sprinkle the pollen all over the body. Because the body has fluff, the pollen will stick to it. The worker bees then use their stiff hind legs to collect the sticky pollen like a brush. Rub a few more front legs into pollen balls, and mix digestive enzymes to make the pollen stick. The two pollen balls are collected, and when they are rubbed, the two hind legs are clamped back. Because these two hind legs have hard hairs and barbs, they can firmly clamp the pollen ball, just like a flower basket, so the hind legs of the worker bee are also called pollen baskets.
Therefore, the villi of the worker bee play an important role in the collection, and the shedding of the villi will affect the collection of the bees.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > what does it mean for a bee to shed its hair? </h1>
The fluff grows on the surface of the bee's body, just like the hair of an animal, and it will fall off with the condition of the body. When all bees are in good health, the villi are relatively dense. The young and strong queen bee has fine villi, and the young worker bee has a lot of fluff. But as you age, your physical condition declines, and your villi will fall off. The old queen bee will have hair on her chest and her body will darken, as will the worker bees.
Therefore, if it is found that the queen bee hair in the bee colony is shedding, the body color is dull, and there are more worker bees with sparse villi, such a queen bee is old and inferior, and the bee colony is also in an aging state. It is necessary to consider replacing the queen bee, increasing the production of seeds, and restoring the bee colony to a state of development.
As a worker bee, villi are often used during collection, which is easier to accelerate the shedding of villi. Therefore, the amount of labor is large, and the worker bees that are frequently collected during the collection period are more likely to fall off their villi, and the faster they age. The shedding of villi not only proves the aging of worker bees, but also makes it difficult for worker bees to collect pollen. At the same time, the aging of worker bees also makes the physiological function decline, it is difficult to secrete digestive enzymes normally, etc., and it is difficult to collect nectar pollen. The task of collecting honey powder can only be given to young and strong worker bees, when the work bees have their hairs shed and aged, and their physical functions have declined, they will be tasked with collecting water or guarding the hive. When the bee colony ages and there is not enough young bees, the gathering ability will be greatly reduced. These aging worker bees are also more violent in temperament, love to cause trouble and love to sting people. The swarm with insufficient spleen could not get close, and the order of the swarm began to be chaotic.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > what diseases cause bee villi to fall off? </h1>
Bees have fine hairs and bright body color, which is a sign of youthfulness and robustness. Aging can cause bee hair to fall off, and it can also cause hair to fall off when the body is unhealthy or sick. Beekeepers can tell whether bees are aging by villi, or they can judge what kind of bee disease is based on the situation of villi shedding.
First, the sparse villi caused by malnutrition.
If the young bees leaving the house have insufficient villi on the body, they prove that they are unhealthy and may have diseases. If the body is thin and sparse, it may be malnutrition and poor development. Such worker bees are difficult to participate in labor, easy to contract diseases, and difficult to develop. Beekeepers must let the bees eat well, pay attention to the quality of the honey powder, reduce the yield, and strive to cultivate robust young bees.
Second, the villi shedding caused by infection with black bee disease.
Bee black bee disease is a type of paralysis, the pathogen is the chronic paralysis virus. It can be transmitted by contaminated pollen bee bees and viruses, and is highly contagious.
Bee paralysis has two symptoms, one is a belly type and the other is a black bee type, although it is the same viral infection, the characteristics of the performance will be different.
Onset of belly paralysis bees have trembling wings, swollen abdomen, spreading wings, unable to fly, crawling around the hive, and soon dying. Such a condition is often mistaken for diarrhea, but the belly disease caused by paralysis has no symptoms of diarrhea, and the wings are spread and the body is trembling, which can be distinguished by careful observation.
The black bee-type disease manifested by paralysis is very different. The sick bee will be thin, the abdomen will be black and shiny, and the villi on the surface of the body will fall off. The bee that has just started to get sick can still fly, but will be attacked and bitten by healthy bees and expelled from the nest. When checking bees, if it is found that there are more worker bees with blackened bodies and hair loss, and they will be expelled by the attacks of other worker bees, it proves that paralysis may have occurred and must be treated with caution.
Paralysis is caused by the virus is contagious, as long as the disease is found, we must pay attention to avoid cross-infection, beehives as far as possible to disinfect treatment. It is best to replace the queen bee with strong virulence resistance, while paying attention to supplementing protein and vitamin feed, strengthening nutrition, and increasing the disease resistance of the bee colony. Sublimation sulfur powder can be sprinkled between bee bee bees in a ratio of 0.5 grams per spleen bee, and the amount of sparse bee colony is reduced a little. The development of paralysis can be controlled with one dose of medication 3 to 5 days. If the symptoms are serious, you have to go to the bee pharmacy to buy special bee medicine to treat.
Having said all that, everyone should understand. Bees with fine villi are young and robust, and if there are too many worker bees in the bee colony that have shed their hair, they must carefully look for the cause. Do you want to know if the colony is aging or getting sick? Then targeted prevention and control, so that the wind group to restore a good state of development.