What does it look like when bees leave their nests to collect honey and are affected by the weather?

Anyone who has lived in the countryside will know a sentence: "Swallows fly low and heavy rain is coming". Today, there is no accurate weather forecast, and the older generation basically relies on the changes of animals and plants to predict the weather. But don't say that the experience summed up over thousands of years is really accurate. In rural areas, there are still many insects that can predict the weather changes. For example, ants move before a rainstorm, spiders don't spin their webs before a rainstorm, and of course bees can also predict the weather changes. Everyone knows that beekeeping is a business that depends on the weather. If it rains every day in the honey season, the life of beekeepers will be very hard, so beekeepers are very concerned about the weather changes.

1. Collecting bees from nests is greatly influenced by the weather.

First of all, bees should adapt to the temperature, humidity and time when plants bloom and secrete honey. Plants are very sensitive to weather changes. There is a great difference in flowering time and honey secretion between sunny and rainy days, so bees need to follow the rhythm of plant flowering.

The second is that sunny days and rainy days have different effects on bee flight. Before the weather changes, the temperature and humidity of the air will change in advance. Before it rains, the air humidity will increase and the air pressure near the ground will be low. Coupled with the high wind speed, the wings of bees will easily get wet and become soft and heavy, which is very unfavorable to the flight of bees, especially when the rainstorm comes, the bees who can't return to the hive can't return to the nest.

2. What are the special behaviors of bees as the weather changes?

Because plants need high air temperature and humidity for flowering and honey secretion, bees are sensitive to the requirements of air temperature and humidity. In spring, the spring rain is continuous, and the temperature is maintained above 20 degrees Celsius. At this time, the temperature and humidity are more suitable for plants to bloom, and bees are very active in collecting pollen nectar in sunny weather. In summer, due to high temperature and dryness, plants bloom and secrete honey in the morning. Bees basically leave the nest at dawn in the morning to collect, and stop collecting when the temperature is high at noon. In the cool and sunny weather in autumn, bees are also actively collecting honey powder. In winter, the temperature is low, and bees only collect at around noon, because the temperature is high at this time. The change of weather affects the temperature and humidity of the air, and also affects the flowering and honey secretion of plants, thus affecting the enthusiasm of bees to leave their nests.