Bees are all flying social insects of the apiaceae family that feed on pollen and nectar and brew honey. Its cell deposition phenomenon is also the only eukaryote that has iron mineral deposition in cells. There are three types of bees in the bee colony, queen bee, worker bee and drone, and there is one queen bee in the group (with some exceptions there are two queens), 10,000 to 150,000 worker bees, and 500 to 1500 male bees. Bees originated in Asia and Europe, and were brought to the Americas by the British and Spaniards. Bees work non-stop to obtain food, collecting honey during the day and making honey at night, while completing pollination tasks for fruit trees, which is an important medium for pollination of crops.
The bee (scientific name: apis mellifera) is a flying social insect. There are dorsal plates of the forebreast that do not reach the base of the wings, the body is branched or feathered, and the hind feet are often specialized as pollen-collecting structures of bees. Adults are covered with villi and have pollen-collecting organs consisting of long hairs on their feet or abdomen. The mouthpart chewing type is a unique feature of insects. They are called resource insects. Adult bees are about 2 cm – 4 cm long ( 0.08 – 1.6 inches ) long.
Bee body structure
Bees are closely related to certain species of wasps, and the main biological difference between the two is that bees (with the exception of parasitic bees) feed young bees with a mixture of pollen and nectar, while wasps feed young bees on animal foods or with insects and spiders. In addition to differences in food preferences, there are some structural differences, the most basic difference being that wasps are covered with unbranched hairs, while bees have at least some branches or feathery hairs, on which pollen usually adheres.
Bees feed entirely on flowers, including pollen and nectar, which are sometimes concocted and stored as honey. There is no doubt that bees pollinate pollen at the same time, and when bees collect pollen between flowers, they will drop some pollen on the flowers. These fallen pollens are of great importance, as they often cause cross-pollination of plants. The actual value of bees as pollinators is greater than the value of their production of honey and beeswax.
Males usually do not live long, do not collect pollen, and are not responsible for feeding the young bees. Worker bees are responsible for all nesting and food storage, and usually have special structural tissues to facilitate the carrying of pollen. Most bees collect pollen from a variety of flowers, but some bees only collect pollen from certain families of flowers, some only pollen from flowers of a certain color, and some bees only collect pollen from relatively related flowers. The bees' mouths are pollen collectors and carrying utensils that seem to be adaptable to a variety of different species of flowers.
Bees make sounds because they have a vocal organ, which is located in two extremely small black dots in the bee's abdomen.
Habits of life
The queen bee lays eggs in the nest room, the larvae live in the nest room, the larvae of the camp social life are fed by the worker bees, and the larvae of the camp solitary life eat the bee food stored in the nest room by the female bees, and when the bee food is eaten, the larvae mature and pupate, and break out of the cocoon when feathering. Domestic bees breed several generations a year, and wild bees breed 1 to 3 generations a year. Overwinter with old mature larvae, pupae or adults. In general, males appear earlier than females, have a short lifespan, and do not undertake the tasks of nesting, storing bee food and raising offspring. Female bees nest, collect pollen and nectar, and store them in the nest chamber, and live longer than males.
Bees feed on plant pollen and nectar. Feeding habits can be divided into 3 categories :(1) polyphagous, that is, on different families of plants or from a certain color of flowers (unlimited plant species) to eat pollen and nectar, ruyi bees and medium bees. (2) Oligosy, that is, feeding from the flowers of plants of the relative family and genus, such as alfalfa quasi-bees. (3) Monophagous, that is, feeding only from a certain plant or close relative, such as the cornflower wasp. The flowers of various types of bees are closely related to the length of the mouth organs: for example, species with shorter mouthparts such as tunnel bees, ground bees, and tongue-splitting bees interviewed open flowers of Rosaceae, Cruciferaceae, Umbellifera, and Ranunculaceae; while species of Leaf-cutting Bees, Stripe Bees, and Bees are interviewed with flowers with deep flower tubes such as legumes and lipaceae due to their long mouth organs.