First, the type of bee: bees are social insects, composed of queen bees, male bees, worker bees and so on. There are more than 10 kinds of bee species such as Italian bees and Chinese bees, and most of the bees we raise now are Chinese bees. Native to China, the Chinese honey bee is suitable for local breeding and has an irreplaceable status with other bee species. Second, how are queen bees, worker bees, and male bees produced? Both the queen bee and the worker bee are developed from fertilized eggs, but if the royal jelly is consumed within 3 days of hatching, and then switched to eating honey pollen mixture later, the worker bee is produced. Interestingly, if you eat royal jelly for life, you will become a queen bee. How to become a queen bee, the key is a condition - eating royal jelly. Males are developed from unfertilized eggs and also eat royal jelly within 3 days of age, and then switch to a mixture of honey powder.
Third, the division of labor of bees: 1, the queen bee: the queen bee is the female bee, that is, the mother bee. Its task is to lay eggs full-time and be responsible for reproducing offspring. Its body was strong, weighed twice as much as a worker bee, and lost its "feminine" stature. During spawning, the queen has her worker bees fed royal jelly every day to promote rapid metabolism and maintain a strong ability to lay eggs. According to expert statistics, the queen bee of the Chinese honey bee can lay 700 to 800 eggs a day. The lifespan of the queen bee is 4-6 years, while the lifespan of ordinary bees is generally only 30-60 days. Royal jelly is the root cause of this de facto gap. Therefore, royal jelly is also globally recognized as a "longevity factor". 2, male bees: just mating with the queen bee. Male bees are male "citizens" within a colony of bees that develop from unfertilized eggs, living a daily life of unearned gain, and their only role in existence is to mate with the queen bee. However, when the male bee plays this role, it is necessary to sacrifice its precious life. From this point of view, the male bee has to fulfill the responsibility of the social division of labor at the cost of life. During the mating season, sexually mature males automatically gather in the air and fly in order to attract the queen. Once the queen appeared, all the male bees chased away, and after some competition, only one finally got the right to mate, who was the largest and most physically strong, who was the final victor, mating with the queen bee, the whole process was in the air. Once the mating is over, the male bee dies immediately as its reproductive organs are pulled down. In the daily management of raising bees, if the male bee does not need to mate with the queen, the male bee should be detected and eliminated in time to avoid the male wasting nutrients in vain.
3, worker bees: the task of worker bees is mainly to collect food, feed larvae, wax and spleen, pulp nesting, nest protection and attack the enemy. All kinds of work in the hive are basically done by worker bees. Worker bees, like queen bees, are developed from fertilized eggs. Nurse worker bees do not take the same care of them as well as the queen bee larvae, feeding royal jelly only for the first three days after hatching, and only the powder mixture from day 4 onwards. Because this feed is not as nutritious as royal jelly, and it lacks biological hormones that promote ovarian development. As a result, the reproductive organ development of the worker bee is inhibited until it feathers into an adult bee, which has only a few ovarian tubes in its ovaries and loses its normal reproductive function. So, they are underdeveloped female wasps.
For a worker bee to brew 1 kg of honey, 10 kg of nectar needs to be collected. A total of 320,000 kilometers are flown back and forth, which is equivalent to about 8 circles around the earth. Worker bees begin to work as soon as they are born, and the division of labor changes according to the age of the day. Usually, when the worker bee is 1 to 3 days old, it is responsible for incubating the eggs and cleaning the spawning room; at 3 to 6 days old, it turns to feeding large larvae and adjusts pollen and honey; at 6 to 12 days old, it changes to secrete royal jelly and feeds small larvae and queen bees; at 12 to 18 days old, it is replaced by wax to make a spleen and clean the hive; after 18 days of age, its task is to collect nectar, water, pollen, propolis and nest door defense.
4. Bee products
1, honey: honey is bees from the flowers of flowering plants collected nectar, and in the hive after repeated brewing, the polysaccharide decomposed into fructose, monosaccharides, glucose and contain a variety of vitamins, proteins and minerals made of finished honey. Consuming honey has certain health care and medical effects. 2, royal jelly: royal jelly is also called royal jelly, royal jelly, bee milk, royal jelly. Royal jelly is not collected from flowers, but a serous body secreted by bees, which is a class of bee products with quite complex components, and its chemical composition varies according to the species, age, season, and pollen plant of the bee. The main active ingredients are hormones, enzymes, amino acids, vitamins and so on. It is often used as a nutritional agent in medicine. It has the effect of increasing appetite, restoring physical strength, stimulating gonadal activity and strengthening the body's resistance. Royal jelly is a milky white slurry secreted by the nutritional glands of young worker bees who grow larvae in beehives, which is specially used to feed the food of the queen bee larvae. 3. Propolis:
Propolis is a viscous solid gelatin formed by mixing plant resin collected by worker bees with secretions such as upper jaw glands and wax glands.
The main components of propolis are beeswax, propolis (resin) and hive oil.
Propolis has a wide range of pharmacological activities and has good medical and health effects.
4, beeswax: beeswax is a wax secreted by bees (worker bees). Beeswax is the material that bees use to build hives. It takes 50 wax scales to build a worker hive, and 120 wax scales to build a male hive. Powerful colonies can secrete 2 kg or more of wax scales in a spring or summer to build a nesting spleen. The main chemical components of beeswax can be divided into four categories, namely esters, free acids, free alcohols and hydrocarbons. It also contains trace amounts of volatile oils and pigments.
Beeswax is solid at room temperature, chewing sticky teeth and no grease smell. Beeswax can be soluble in benzene, toluene, chloroform and other organic solvents, slightly soluble in ethanol, insoluble in water, but under certain conditions, beeswax can form an emulsion with water. Beeswax has a certain medical effect.
5. Bee pollen: Bee pollen refers to the pollen group brought back by bees when collecting honey, and the pollen formed after storage and fermentation in the hive. Bee pollen is the male germ cells in the stamens of flowering plants, which not only carry the genetic information of life, but also contain all the nutrients necessary to conceive new life, and are the root of plant succession and the source of thermal energy.
Bee pollen is a concentrate of substances with nutritional value and medicinal value, which contains protein, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and other active substances, which is not only an excellent natural nutritional food, but also an ideal tonic, and has a certain medical effect.
Originating from nature, bee pollen is an irregular flattened shape of pollen grains collected by bees from the flower buds of flowers and plants, and a mixture of special glandular secretions (nectar and saliva). Bee pollen has natural health effects and medical and beauty value, is a high-protein low-fat nutritional health food, known as "all-round nutritional food", is a treasure in human natural food. *Special Warning: Regular consumption of bee pollen can effectively prevent and treat recurrent stomatitis, friends may wish to try. Tel: 13562669600