Introduction: When it comes to the bee's bee spleen, many friends first think of the place for bees to live, which is a small room for bee larvae to grow, and a granary for bees to store food. Since the discovery of bees, the behavior habits of bees have left too much reverie to people, and even developed various products through the various habits of bees. For example, the conservation principle of the regular hexagon of the hive, the insulation principle of the hemispherical shape of the hive, etc. have inspired all walks of life. Careful friends can find that the upper edge of the nest house of the bee hive is not actually a neat edge, but a raised edge. From the nesting habits of bees, we can find many examples of bee saving, but from the perspective of economy, it is a waste of beeswax for bees to make the upper edge of the nest house into a bulge. Could it be that bees are ignoring material savings here? Obviously not, the bees can even think of the savings of the nest house into a circle and a regular hexagon, and obviously the problem of the waste of the upper edge of the nest house is so obvious that the bees can think of it. Don't underestimate these small bumps on the upper edge of the hive room, which can be said to make up the entire hive bee communication system.
All along, the way bees work day and night has been recognized by a lot of information, but the facts also prove that bees cannot collect honey at night, that is to say, at night, bee vision is a problem, how big the problem is, we can only confirm from the bee's phototropism, if the beehive at night is against the light, the bee can only fly towards the position of the light.
The above conclusion is actually a question that many friends have not delved into, to say that the light intensity of the outside world, even compared with the inside of the hive is much stronger, the bees completely lose the ability to work outside the hive at night, but we must absolutely believe that the light intensity inside the hive is definitely not as high as the outside of the hive. Bees can't communicate outside the hive, much less internally, but it turns out that bees can not only work at night, but also work well. Mainly or the special structure of the hive, especially the bulge of the edge of the nest wall on the hive, it can be said that the communication system inside the entire hive is built, and the communication of the bees can be said to have a great relationship with this structure on the upper edge of the nest wall.
To our naked eye, the bulge on the upper edge of the nest wall can be said to be a waxy bump, and these bumps are connected and finally form a network of countless regular hexagons, which connect all the regular hexagons on the entire nest spleen. Don't underestimate this structure, there is this huge secret hidden in it.
Remember that the bee tribe once mentioned in the nesting of bees that bees rely on the vibration frequency emitted by the tentacles on the wall of the nest to feel the thickness of the nest, in fact, here the bees here by connecting the mesh structure on the upper edge of the nest house, also constitute a structure that can transmit low-frequency vibrations, and the bees can work in the hive that can not see the light at all, and this network structure plays a huge role.
70 years ago, a foreigner named Ferich proposed that the dance language of bees has an important role in this special structure of the hive, and later this speculation was confirmed, the experiment is to observe the bees dancing on the covered nest house and other bees react, the bees dancing on the smooth surface of the nest house, can attract other bees to the accuracy of the source of the honey, only a quarter of the nest room on the edge of the nest wall has a raised, dancing, Other exchanges of information also reflect the more precise characteristics of this raised nest.
The bees in the hive are attached to the bumps on the nest wall, these bumps are built on the nest wall one by one, it is easy to occur the overall displacement, when the bulge on the nest wall is displaced, this displacement will soon spread throughout the nest spleen, the German researcher Jürgen Tautz's book has recorded this data, the best vibration frequency throughout the nest is 230 to 270 Hz, the vibration frequency of the bee dancing is also within this range, And regardless of whether there is honey in the nest room can reach this vibration frequency, but if the nest room has been covered, this vibration will be affected, if there is only one covered nest house, there is no cover in other places, this information is transmitted around the covered nest house.
Bees use the nest walls, edges, specific materials and special structures in the nest to form a communication system in the hive, and the bees can make this system more and more perfect.
Although the nest structure of bees has given us a lot of information, we still know too little information, at least 3 problems that we have not yet figured out:
First: this vibration transmission communication method of bees is actually a transmission method that moves the whole field at a point, but it is obvious that there is individual communication between bees. This way of communication of bees can be understood as our current group chat method, which is equivalent to as long as I dial the phone, all the family members can hear our conversation to achieve this kind of call effect. So did the individual communication between the bees also communicate through the bulge on the edge of the nest? Like the two of us on the phone, only we can communicate, which is equivalent to having a special line for the two of us, which is an unproven problem.
Second: Why do bees build such communication networks? Who is coordinating? Is there a group like us humans, like the BeeCom? This is an unsolved mystery.
Third: In a colony of tens of thousands of bees, how do bees find information that is useful to them? Just like we can find our companions in a group of people by looking at clothes and listening to sounds, but there are too many bees in the swarm, and there are all kinds of sounds, so do bees also have this characteristic to find their target companions? This is also an unsolved mystery.
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