Then, it becomes honey.
Question 2: How do bees make honey? 1. Bees are selective to flowers when collecting nectar. Generally speaking, bees don't collect flowers that are in bud or just in full bloom. Its picking object is blooming flowers, because the content of nectar or secretion is rich at this time.
So how do bees find the source of honey?
Although there are different kinds of insect antennae, they all have activities such as looking for food, choosing hosts to lay eggs and looking for aliens. Function. Insects always swing their whiskers up and down from left to right, just like two antennas and radars, always receiving radio waves and tracking targets. This is because the antenna is an important sensory organ of insects, which has the functions of smell and touch. There are countless sensory organs on the antenna, which are connected with many nerve endings in the sensory fossa, and they are directly connected with the central nervous system. When exposed to the outside world, the central nervous system can dominate insects to carry out various activities. The antenna of bee belongs to knee-shaped antenna, and its olfactory fossa is mainly distributed at the front end of antenna whip joint. With the help of tentacles, bees can smell the fragrance of various flowers and find nectar.
Second, the honey collection process (taking Gerbera jamesonii as an example)
The mouths of insects and bees belong to chewing mouthparts. Its mouthparts maintain a pair of left and right symmetrical knife-axe shaped maxilla, which has the ability to chew solid pollen and build a hive. The lower lip is elongated to form a slender tube with a long slot in the middle, which is helpful for sucking. If you put this small tube into the flower, you can suck honey continuously. Bees with such mouthparts can not only collect pollen, but also suck nectar.
Gerbera has more stamens, but bees will not be confused. Bees fly to the flower tray and collect honey layer by layer from the outside to the inside. It inserts a small tube along the bottom of the stamen, sucks nectar and picks one flower after another. In a pot of flowers, bees usually only pick three or four flowers and then fly to another pot of flowers, and the two colors are different. After picking flowers of all colors, the bees fly back to the first pot of flowers and carefully collect the honey-picked flowers again (as far as pot flowers are concerned). It moves lightly and continuously. Watching bees collect honey can be said to be a kind of beautiful enjoyment.
Bees collect not only honey, but also pollen. Its feet are its good helpers.
Among all kinds of insect feet, the tarsal joints of the hind feet of bees are particularly large, with grooves on the outside and long and dense villi around them, forming a "pollen basket". When bees shuttle through the flowers to collect pollen nectar, the hairy feet are covered with pollen, and then the pollen is combed off by the "pollen comb" on the tarsal bones of the hind feet and collected in the "pollen basket". Finally, fix the pollen into balls with honey. This kind of foot that can carry bee pollen is called powder-carrying foot.
Thirdly, worker bees will not directly enter the honey storage room after collecting honey and returning to the nest, but will be caught by bees that have emerged for about 4 days and stored in the honey storage room; Small worker bees also feed their young bees with honey mixed with pollen.
Question 3: How do bees make honey? Worker bees collect nectar, which is sucked into the honey sac by worker bees, and saliva containing invertase is mixed at this time. The conversion process of sucrose begins from now on. It was determined that when bees were collected into the nest, the sugar content of nectar in the honey bag was about 45%, which was less than 65438 0% compared with the natural nectar before collection. After the bees return to their nests, they spit out honey juice and brew it for the bees in the office. The process of honey production by bees is mainly to add sucrose invertase to nectar and partially evaporate the water in nectar. After preliminary brewing, the sugar content of honey is about 60%. When the honey ripening process is partially completed, the brewing bees will store the immature honey brewed by themselves in the nest room, so that the immature honey can be further matured in the nest room. When the honey is ripe, the worker bees will seal the honey storage nest with beeswax for later use. The time required for honey ripening varies with nectar concentration, population potential and climate, and generally lasts about 5-7 days.
Question 4: How do bees make honey? 1, looking for honey source
In spring and warm weather, some reconnaissance bees fly out of the box to find honey sources. When the scout bees found the honey source outside, they sucked up a little nectar and pollen and flew back quickly.
2. Information transmission
After returning to the bee colony, it continued to dance. Don't think it's just a pleasure. In fact, this dance is used by bees to express the distance and direction of honey source. There are generally two kinds of bee dances: round dance and figure-eight dance. If the honey source found is not too far from the hive, perform a round dance on the nest spleen (the place where bees hold honey, incubate small bees and stay); If the honey source is far away, let's have a figure-eight dance. When dancing, if the head is up, the honey source faces the sun; If the head is down, the honey source is facing away from the sun.
3. Acquisition
(Take Gerbera jamesonii as an example)
The mouths of insects and bees belong to chewing mouthparts. Its mouthparts maintain a pair of left and right symmetrical knife-axe shaped maxilla, which has the ability to chew solid pollen and build a hive. The lower lip is elongated to form a slender tube with a long slot in the middle, which is helpful for sucking. If you put this small tube into the flower, you can suck honey continuously. Bees with such mouthparts can not only collect pollen, but also suck nectar.
Gerbera has more stamens, but bees will not be confused. Bees fly to the flower tray and collect honey layer by layer from the outside to the inside. It inserts a small tube along the bottom of the stamen, sucks nectar and picks one flower after another. In a pot of flowers, bees usually only pick three or four flowers and then fly to another pot of flowers, and the two colors are different. After picking flowers of all colors, the bees fly back to the first pot of flowers and carefully collect the honey-picked flowers again (as far as pot flowers are concerned). It moves lightly and continuously. Watching bees collect honey can be said to be a kind of beautiful enjoyment.
Bees collect not only honey, but also pollen. Its feet are its good helpers.
Under normal circumstances, a worker bee goes out to collect honey for more than 40 times every day, and each time it collects 100 flowers, but the collected nectar can only brew 0.5g honey. If you want to brew 1 kg honey, the distance from the hive to the honey source is 1.5 km, which is almost equivalent to flying1.20,000 km, which is almost equivalent to circling the earth three times.
Step 4: make honey
It is so hard to collect nectar that it is not easy to turn nectar into honey. All the worker bees spit the sweet juice of the collected flowers into an empty hive, and then suck the sweet juice into their honey stomachs at night to make it, and then spit it out and swallow it, so it takes 100 ~ 240 times to make it sweet.
Among all kinds of insect feet, the tarsal joints of the hind feet of bees are particularly large, with grooves on the outside and long and dense villi around them, forming a "pollen basket". When bees shuttle through the flowers to collect pollen nectar, the hairy feet are covered with pollen, and then the pollen is combed off by the "pollen comb" on the tarsal bones of the hind feet and collected in the "pollen basket". Finally, fix the pollen into balls with honey. This kind of foot that can carry bee pollen is called powder-carrying foot.
Question 5: How do bees make honey? Bees collect nectar, but they don't make honey.
Royal jelly is produced by itself and is mainly used to feed larvae.
Question 6: Why do bees make honey? The landlord also stumped me on this issue. I looked up the information carefully and came to the conclusion that honey is their food, and they need a lot of food to reproduce. They live on it and spread pollen indirectly. Nature is really amazing!
The landlord should be better at thinking about life! !
Bees collect and produce honey.
Most farmed bees live in wooden boxes, while wild bees live in wall holes and tree holes. Although it is small, it can fly thousands of meters away to collect the sweet juice of flowers to brew honey. How does it know where there is nectar?
Bees are insects that live in groups. Among a group of bees, there is a queen bee, many worker bees and several drones. Worker bees are the most industrious in the bee colony. They are responsible for collecting honey, reconnaissance, guarding, cleaning the hive and feeding the bees.
In spring and warm weather, some reconnaissance bees fly out of the box to find honey sources. When the scout bees found the honey source outside, they sucked up a little nectar and pollen and flew back quickly. After returning to the bee colony, it continued to dance. Don't think it's just a pleasure. In fact, this dance is used by bees to express the distance and direction of honey source. There are generally two kinds of bee dances: round dance and figure-eight dance. If the honey source found is not too far from the hive, perform a round dance on the nest spleen (the place where bees hold honey, incubate small bees and stay); If the honey source is far away, let's have a figure-eight dance. When dancing, if the head is up, the honey source faces the sun; If the head is down, the honey source is facing away from the sun.
The bees in the hive got the good news brought by the reconnaissance bees, and some quickly flew out of the box and flew in the direction it guided. When these bees fly back after eating nectar, they will dance to their companions and mobilize everyone to collect honey. In this way, more and more bees rush to the honey source and do a lot of collection work.
Spring and summer are the time when flowers are in full bloom and honey sources are the richest. At this time, worker bees began to go out frequently to collect honey. They stopped in the middle of the flower, sticking out a "tongue" as delicate as a tube, and there was a honey spoon on the tip of the tongue. As soon as the "tongue" is stretched and shrunk, the sweet juice at the bottom of the corolla flows along the "tongue" to the honey stomach. Worker bees suck one flower after another until their honey bellies are full, bulging and shiny.
Under normal circumstances, a worker bee goes out to collect honey for more than 40 times every day, and each time it collects 100 flowers, but the collected nectar can only brew 0.5g honey. If you want to brew 1 kg honey, the distance from the hive to the honey source is 1.5 km, which is almost equivalent to flying1.20,000 km, which is almost equivalent to circling the earth three times.
It is so hard to collect nectar that it is not easy to turn nectar into honey. All the worker bees spit the sweet juice of the collected flowers into an empty hive, and then suck the sweet juice into their honey stomachs at night to make it, and then spit it out and swallow it, so it takes 100 ~ 240 times to make it sweet.
People often say that "it's hard to try", and honey is really hard to try. In order to dry honey as soon as possible, thousands of worker bees have to flap their wings constantly, and then hide the dried honey in a warehouse, seal it with a wax cover and store it for winter consumption.
In addition to preparing "flour rice" honey, worker bees will also collect pollen brought back by honey collection, add a little nectar and water, and rub out pollen balls to make "coarse grains" that bees usually eat.
Bees brew honey, which not only prepares food rations for themselves, but also plays a great role in spreading pollen for plants. Among insects that pollinate fruit trees and crops, bees are the absolute main force. For example, a bee can bring 48,000 grains of pollen to melon in one flight, while an ant can only bring 330 grains. Through bee pollination, the yield of fruit trees and crops can be greatly improved.
Question 7: How do bees make honey? Bees regard honey as food, so the whole process of making honey is the process of storing food by bees. The first thing bees need to do to make honey is to fly into the flowers to absorb nectar, which is first stored in the honey sac of worker bees. The honey sac is an enlarged part of the digestive tract, just in front of the stomach. There is a valve that separates the honey sac from the stomach. When the nectar is still in the honey bag, the first stage of the honey brewing process begins, and the sugar in the nectar changes. The next step is to remove most of the water from nectar, which is filtered and evaporated through chemical channels. Due to ventilation and the heat of the hive, the evaporation of water in nectar is reduced. Bees spit nectar when they fly back to the hive. When the nectar is moved to the hive, most of the water has evaporated and disappeared. So honey can almost keep fresh. Honey is stored in beehives until it is ripe for later consumption.
Question 8: How do bees make honey? Why do bees make honey? The sugar in natural nectar is sucrose. The water content of nectar varies greatly with plant species, climatic conditions and evaporation time. In the process of making honey, bees are accompanied by two changes: one is to convert all sucrose into glucose and fructose; Secondly, the honey juice is concentrated until the water content is below 20%, which is convenient for long-term storage. Mature honey can be almost completely digested and absorbed by bees. This is of great significance for bees to be forced to fly for several months during the wintering period.
The nectar inhaled by worker bees is mixed with saliva containing invertase. The conversion process of sucrose begins from now on. It was determined that when bees were collected into the nest, the sugar content of nectar in the honey bag was about 45%, which was less than 65438 0% compared with the natural nectar before collection. After the bees return to their nests, they spit out honey juice and brew it for the bees in the office. The process of honey production by bees is mainly to add sucrose invertase to nectar and partially evaporate the water in nectar. After preliminary brewing, the sugar content of honey is about 60%. When the honey ripening process is partially completed, the brewing bees will store the immature honey brewed by themselves in the nest room, so that the immature honey can be further matured in the nest room. When the honey is ripe, the worker bees will seal the honey storage nest with beeswax for later use. The time required for honey to mature varies with nectar concentration, population potential and climate, and generally lasts about 5-7 days.