Bee is a general term for the nine kinds of resource insects of the bee genus, especially the Chinese honey bee and the Italian bee are the most famous, but the bee has a claw needle connected to the venom gland at the end of the abdomen, if it encounters unfriendly interference, it will rise up and attack, the following Xiaobian will simply popularize the bee is a beneficial insect or a pest!
I. Discussion of the benefits and harms
Bees are typical beneficial insects, the reason is that bees can not only provide honey and other bee products for humans, but also bees are the most important pollinators for many plants, studies have shown that 80% of plants rely on insects to spread pollen, and these pollinating insects in the bees account for the majority, if there is no bee, many plants will lack pollinators and go extinct, so bees are uncompromising beneficial insects from any point of view.
2. Classification of species
Bees are the collective name of the nine resource insects of the genus Bee, these nine species of bees are Western Bees, Eastern Bees, Small Bees, Big Bees, Black Little Bees, Big Black Bees, Sabah Bees, Green Bees, Sulawesi Bees, the most widely used by humans are Eastern Bees and Western Bees, such as the Chinese Honey Bees under the Eastern Honey Bees and the Italian Bees under the Western Bees, the Caniola Bees, the Caucasian Honey Bees, and the European Black Bees.
Third, the group structure
Bees are typical social insects, the bee colony consists of a queen bee, a small number of male bees and a large number of worker bees, the three types of bees perform their duties, of which the queen bee is mainly responsible for laying eggs and secreting queen bee pheromones to maintain the order of the bee colony, the male bee is mainly responsible for mating with the newly born queen bee and dies soon after mating, and the worker bee is responsible for collecting food, building the hive, feeding the larvae, fending off natural enemies, brewing honey and almost all the labor.
Fourth, life habits
1, bees are typical social insects, the group consists of a queen bee, a small number of male bees and a large number of worker bees, any individual can not survive alone without the group, the group lack of any kind of bees can not survive normally.
2. Bees are typical nesting insects, the hive is composed of several or a dozen nest spleens, the nest spleen is composed of a series of closely arranged hexahedral nests, and the nest chamber is built with beeswax secreted by the wax glands in the abdomen of the bees.
3, bees are typical metamorphosis insects, the three types of bees have eggs, larvae, pupae and adult bees four stages, of which the queen bee from eggs to bees is about 16 days, male bees from eggs to bees about 23 days, worker bees from eggs to bees about 20 days.
4, bees are typical feeding insects, in the season of rich honey source bees will reserve a large amount of nectar and pollen in the hive, such as the lack of honey source or not suitable for bees to collect when the bee colony to the reserve of food for a living.