Acid bees are small bees of the apiaceae stingless bees, also known as sticky bees, ant bees, stingless bees, etc., because of the honey produced sweet with acid and named, China is mainly distributed in Yunnan, Hainan, Guangxi, Guangdong and other places in the original rainforest, can be domesticated as a professional pollinator bee species for crop pollination, let's take a look at where acid bees are suitable for breeding it!
Acid bees
I. Discussion of bee species
Acid bee is an important pollinator insect in the tropics, because of the honey produced sweet with acid and named, also known as sticky bee, ant bee, thornless bee, etc., in the biological classification belongs to the animal kingdom, arthropod phylum, insect class, hymenoptera, honeybee family, thornless wasp social insects, China is mainly distributed in Yunnan, Hainan, Guangxi, Guangdong and other places in the original rainforest, can be domesticated as a professional pollinator bee species for crop pollination.
Second, life habits
1, sociality: acid bees are social insects, the bee colony is composed of queen bees, male bees and worker bees, of which the queen bee full-time laying eggs, male bees are responsible for mating with the queen bee, and the worker bees specialize in collecting pollen, nectar and feeding offspring, and the male bees of acid bees can also collect nectar and pollen.
2, nesting: acid bees are nest insects, nesting materials are mainly resin, hives are mostly built in tree holes, wall cracks, rock gaps, etc., there is a trumpet tube at the nest door, the interior is composed of three parts: spawning area, powder storage area, honey storage area, and the nest house for breeding insects is relatively small.
3, food storage: acid bees are storage insects, in the season of rich honey bee swarms will collect a large number of pollen and nectar reserves in the hive, encounter honey source is scarce or not suitable for collection when the swarm to reserve food for a living, and other bees like acid bees can also brew honey.
3. Bee colony structure
1, queen bee: queen bee is a female bee developed from fertilized eggs, in general, there is only one queen bee in a bee colony, the main role is to lay eggs (including fertilized eggs and unfertilized eggs) to breed new bees, and maintain the order of the bee colony by secreting queen bee pheromones.
2, worker bees: worker bees are female bees developed from fertilized eggs, under normal circumstances, there are thousands of worker bees in a bee colony, and the main role is to be responsible for almost all the labor inside and outside the bee colony, such as collecting food, building hives, feeding larvae, resisting predators, etc.
3, male bees: male bees are male bees developed by egg cells, under normal circumstances, there are hundreds of male bees in a bee colony, the main role is to cross the tail with the new queen bee, otherwise the new queen can not lay eggs normally, and will soon die due to the loss of reproductive organs after tailing.
Fourth, breeding conditions
1, climate: acid bees are tropical insects, the most suitable temperature of 25 ~ 28 °C, temperature below 13 °C is frozen, Guangdong Entomological Research Institute has introduced acid bees from Hainan Province to raise in Guangzhou, the second year of the production of bees indicates that acid bees can also adapt to subtropical climate.
2, honey source: the size of the acid bee is only 1/10 of the ordinary bee, can go deep into the flower tube of the plant to collect nectar and pollinate crops, fruit trees, Chinese medicinal materials, etc., the main interview of honey source plants are rapeseed, privet, corn, sand kernels, melon and fruit plants.
3, resin: acid bee nest community, nest is mostly built in tree holes, wall cracks, rock gaps, etc., nesting materials are mainly resin, which is very different from other bees, such as bees, bees and other ordinary bees are the use of bees wax glands secreted by the bees abdomen to build nests.
4, water source: acid bee flight distance is relatively short, artificial breeding must be near the bee farm must have a clean water source, especially in the high temperature of the summer acid bee needs a lot of water, if there is no natural water source, to artificially create a clean water source for the bee colony.
( Source: Cucumber Network )