Bees belong to the order Hymenoptera, family of honeybees. Honey bees are social insects and consist of individuals such as queen bees, males, and worker bees. The details of honey bee are as follows:
The body of honey bee is small, the cephalothorax is black, the queen bee has a body length of about 17.5mm, the body color is black or brownish-red, and the whole body is covered with black and dark yellow tomentum. The worker bees have a body length of about 11mm, a beak length of about 5mm, and the dorsal plate of the abdominal segment is black with a tawny ring. The abdominal color of the medium-sized bees in high latitude and high mountainous areas is black, while the abdominal color of the medium-sized front bees in low latitude and plains areas is yellow.
The whole body is covered with gray short downy hair. The length of male wasp is about 125mm, the body color is black or black-brown, and the whole body is covered with gray downy hair. The Chinese honeybee is hardy and agile in flight, but it is easy to fly away when there is a lack of nectar or pests and diseases, so it is suitable for keeping in the ecological environment of mountainous and semi-mountainous areas.
Expanded InformationMethods of honeybee information exchange:
1. Chemical way
The honeybee glands release a trace amount of chemical information substance, which is called pheromone, also called exogenous hormone. Depending on the air or contact between individuals to spread, for individuals of the same species to spread a "language", the receiving individual can understand the meaning of this "language", the role of behavior or physiological reflection.
2. Physical methods
The use of sound and light to transmit information. The so-called sound is the sound of bees vibrating their wings. For example, the sound emitted by the queen bee wings vibration is known as "singing", "singing" through the hive spleen transmission, this is because the queen bee vibration wings are driven by the vibration of the pectoral muscles, because the pectoral muscles close to the hive spleen will be the vibration of the sound waves spread, when the bees feel it, it will produce a reaction to stop the activity. When the bees feel it, they react by stopping their activities.