What do bees know?

Bees are the floorboard of Hymenoptera and Insecta. Adults are covered with villi, and there are pollen collecting organs composed of long hairs on their feet or abdomen. Chewing and sucking mouthparts are unique characteristics of insects. Totally perverted.

About 15000 species are known all over the world, and about 1000 species are known in China. Many kinds of products or behaviors are closely related to medicine (such as honey and royal jelly), agriculture (such as crop pollination) and industry (such as beeswax and propolis). They are called resource insects.

Two: value

Bees feed entirely on flowers, including pollen and nectar, which are sometimes made into honey for storage. There is no doubt that bees are pollinating it as well as collecting pollen. When bees collect pollen between flowers, they will drop some pollen on the flowers. These fallen pollen are very important because it often causes cross-pollination of plants. The actual value of bees as pollinators is greater than the value of making honey and beeswax.

Three: Lifestyle

The lifestyle of bees can be divided into three types: 1 sociality. Male and female worker ants live in the same nest, but there are differences in morphology, physiology and division of labor. 2. unique. The vast majority of bees live alone, that is, worker bees nest alone to collect powder and store grain, and they have no "grade" differentiation. 3 parasitic. Female bees don't build nests, but lay eggs in the host's nest.

Four: Origin

According to fossil data, a large number of bees have been found in the late Eocene strata of Tertiary. Its appearance is closely related to the prosperity of flowering plants in the late Cretaceous.

V: System status

In Insecta, bees belong to the advanced evolutionary group. The emergence of social life style, the transmission of "language" information, the method of identifying beehives through "dance" movements, and the different structures of nests.

Six: Detailed information

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