When wild bees collect nectar, they first suck the nectar into the honey bag in their bodies, and then fly back to the hive to give the collected nectar to the background bees. Bees need 20-40 minutes to collect each time, stay in the nest for about 4 minutes before taking part in the work, and take part in the work one day at the peak of honey flow 10-24 times.
When bees collect nectar, they suck it into the bag drop by drop, and the amount collected each time is generally 40-60 mg, which is basically equivalent to their own weight. Every time you brew1000g honey, you need to make tens of thousands of collecting flights and interview millions or even tens of millions of flowers.
Indoor bees spit nectar on the beak end of the mouth to form small bubbles, and the fan makes the water in the bubbles evaporate continuously, which makes the concentration of honey increase repeatedly. In the process of continuous throughput of bees, nectar is mixed with digestive enzymes in bees, which promotes the continuous transformation of sucrose and polysaccharide in nectar into glucose and fructose.
When the honey reaches a certain concentration, the bees will coat the honey on the nest room in the honey storage area, and further evaporate the water under the action of the temperature in the nest and the constant flapping of bees until the honey reaches a high concentration (the water content is lower than 20%) and becomes mature honey. The bees will store the honey in the nest room and then seal it with a wax cover.
Functional division of bees
1, queen bee: The main function of queen bee is to lay eggs, and it can secrete "queen bee pheromone" to maintain the order of bee colony. A strong queen bee can lay more than 2,000 eggs day and night, and an excellent queen bee can lay 654.38+10,000 eggs a year.
2. Worker bees: The main function of worker bees is to work, such as building hives, feeding larvae, collecting food, resisting enemies, and cleaning the nest room. Due to different ages, worker bees can be divided into three physiologically different worker bees: nursing bees, nesting bees and collecting bees.
3. UAV: The main function of UAV is mating. The new queen bee can't lay eggs normally without mating with drones. In fact, the quality of queen bees depends to a great extent on the quality and quantity of drones that mate with them. After mating, drones will die because their reproductive organs fall off.