First of all, let's briefly understand the habits of bees.
Bees are the general name of all the bees. There are 9 different kinds of bees belonging to 3 subgenera in the whole bee family. We can often see people who release bees in spring. The bees cultivated by these people are mainly oriental bees (China bees) and western bees (Italian bees). Compared with western bees, the cultivation difficulty and honey production of oriental bees are weak, so the population of oriental bees is less and less.
All bees are completely abnormal insects, and most of them have to go through 3 days of egg stage, 6 days of larval stage and 12 days of pupal stage, which is the origin of bee 2 1 day. However, 2 1 day refers to the growth and development cycle of worker bees (female bees). Male peaks are slightly different from queen bees, in which the growth and development period of male peaks takes 24 days, but they are only responsible for mating with queen bees, not taking part in caring for offspring and collecting honey. They end their short lives within a few minutes after mating with queen bees.
However, it only takes 16 days for the queen bee to complete the growth process. This is because the queen bee has been eating highly nutritious royal jelly since birth, while the female bee usually only eats it for a few days and then feeds it with ordinary honey. Because of this, female bees don't have enough nutrition to develop their ovaries, so they don't have reproductive ability.
Worker bees have been busy since they became adults. They look for flowers around the hive with a radius of 2-3 kilometers. When bees fly, the average speed is about 30 kilometers per hour, and the flying height is below 1000 meters, usually only a dozen meters, because the higher the flying height, the more difficult it is, which is not good for ordinary bees. And most of the flowers are concentrated on the ground, and even some tall trees are only a few tens of meters. Therefore, although bees can fly 1000 meters high, their main activity area is in low altitude areas.
A bee can only collect 1200 flowers on average to fill the honey sac, and then return and "go out" again. When night falls, they return to their nests to take care of their eggs and larvae and have little time to rest. So busy 1-2 months, the bees ended their hard life, leaving only about 0.6 grams of honey.
Why do bees appear on the cliff? Are they really looking for something?
Among the three subfamilies of the genus Apis, bees of Apinae (including black bees and bees) do not appear on cliffs because their living environment and nesting sites are mainly trees and bushes (bees usually nest in grass or bushes, while black bees like trees). Apia belongs to oriental bees, western bees and Sabah bees with a wide range of habitats, usually mainly tree holes or caves. But it is different that the big black bee and the big bee belong to the subfamily Apis. They especially like to nest in cracks or protruding rocks on the steep walls of hanging rocks.
Therefore, the reason why bees appear on the cliff is because some bees have settled here, such as the big black bee and the big bee are typical representatives.
Big bees and black bees are the biggest creatures under bees, and they especially like to nest on cliffs. Because their beehives belong to a single piece of nest spleen and hang in rows on the cliff, they are also called "beehive arrangement".
Honeycomb honey is known as the "Rolls Royce" in honey industry, and it is the most precious existence. This is not because the honey production of hives is low, and a group of hives can produce about 30 kilograms of honey a year, but because most of their hives are on cliffs and it is very difficult to collect them.
Of course, bees appear on the cliff, and besides "home" here, some are looking for new nesting sites. After all, "there is always a reward for the brave". Expensive honey makes beehives coveted by many people and makes many beehives lose their shelter. Therefore, when the hive is destroyed, the worker bees of the hive have to look for new nesting sites again. So from May to August every year, when flowers are in full bloom, swarms of bees can always be seen on the cliffs of Tibet, Yunnan, Hainan and Guangxi.
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Most bees mainly fly at low altitude, so the bees we see on the cliff are not ordinary bees, but walking bees (a kind of big bees). They are here because their natural enemies are mainly Hu Feng. In order to avoid natural enemies, they make their homes on cliffs or tall trees. However, what they didn't expect was to avoid the "big mouth" of natural enemies and human beings.