The bee is a very cute little insect with a light and beautiful body. It wears a yellow and black striped flower coat, a pair of thin and transparent wings, and its whole body is covered with fine hair. It has fine fur and a pair of large compound eyes that can clearly see everything around the body. It always sings happy songs when flying. Bees are very hard-working insects. To make one kilogram of honey, a bee needs 33,333 working hours and sucks 3,333 flower stamens. To make 500 grams of honey, worker bees need to fly back and forth 37,000 times to find and collect nectar and bring it back to the hive. They always travel tirelessly between flowers and hives, producing sweet honey to feed the next generation. Bees are very smart little animals. The hive of a bee is hexagonal. According to scientists' calculations, if the area is the same, the hive can accommodate the most hexagons. Bees also invented a dance language. When the scout bees find a nectar source within 100 meters of the hive, they report back to the hive. In addition to leaving tracking information, they also alternately turn left or right in small circles on the hive. Crawling in a "round dance". If the nectar source is more than 100 meters away from the beehive, the scout bees will change their dance posture into a "∞" shape, so it is also called the "figure 8 dance" or "tail wagging dance". Bees are messengers that spread pollen. Bees feed entirely on flowers, including pollen and nectar, the latter of which is sometimes prepared and stored as honey. There is no doubt that when bees collect pollen, they also pollinate it. When bees collect pollen between flowers, they will drop some pollen onto the flowers. This fallen pollen is important because it often causes cross-pollination of plants. Bees are actually more valuable as pollinators than in the production of honey and beeswax.
Bees are one of the most beneficial insect groups to humans. It pollinates crops, fruit trees, vegetables, pastures, Camellia oleifera crops and Chinese medicinal plants, and the yield can be increased several to 20 times. Honey is a commonly used tonic and is known as "milk for the elderly"; bee pollen is known as a "miniature nutrient bank"; royal jelly is an advanced nutritional product that can not only enhance physical fitness and extend life span, but also treat neurasthenia. , anemia, gastric ulcer and other chronic diseases; bee venom is effective in rheumatism, neuritis, etc.; beeswax and propolis are both raw materials for light industry.
