Honey bees, like ants, bumblebees and wasps, refer to “socially” living insects. They live in large families and have a number of biological characteristics. Usually the family of bees consists of one uterus, several tens of thousands of worker bees and several hundred drones. In families that are in a happy state, drones are only […]
To what extent, with the correct choice of color, the bees use this identification sign of their hive for orientation, can be solved not by reasoning, but only by experiments. Fig. 63. Use of bee hive colors for orientation. A – the usual order of the arrangement of the hives, to which bees are accustomed. […]
If the reader ever had breakfast at a village in the air, there is honey, then probably the bees attracted by the honey smell were also on the table. In this case, you can always conduct a simple experiment, which requires a sheet of red and two identical sheets of blue paper, as well as […]
The previous chapters talked about training, which allows you to get some data about the feelings of bees. The prerequisite for such experiments is that the bees we want to train come to our experimental table. To attract bees to the experimental table, we put on it several sheets of paper, richly oiled with honey. […]
Each of us from our own experience knows what a sense of time. It can be relied on to a greater or lesser extent, but there is no person for whom it is completely absent. A dog or a parrot well remembers the hour of joyful events for them, if these events are regularly repeated. […]
We are facing a large beekeeping pavilion. Twenty bee colonies are located nearby, and all hives look exactly alike. Thousands of worker bees are fleeing for a bribe; with the rapidity of arrows, buzzing, they are carried away. Returning bees confidently and without the slightest hesitation fly up to their native hive and disappear in […]
Along with honey as a second indispensable food, the bee family collects pollen. Pollen gatherers also inform each other about a found abundant source of a bribe, and they do it in the same way as nectar gatherers. They use circular dances at close and wagging dances with a remote source of bribe to convey […]
Growth and development of the bee family under favorable conditions of the environment (plenty of food, proper temperature, etc.) is provided by all three forms of individuals: the uterus, working bees and drones, but their role in this is not the same. Uterus is the only fully developed female in the family. Its function is […]
Outer cover. Bees, like all insects, do not have an internal bone skeleton, which in vertebrate animals represents the basis and support of the whole body. Instead of the internal skeleton, bees have a hard outer covering, which serves to attach muscles and protect internal organs. In the outer cover, you can distinguish three layers […]
With the help of dances, bees can report information not only about sources of nectar and pollen, but also about other purposes of their flights, for example, about the location of puddles with suitable water for collection, which is needed not only for quenching thirst, but also sometimes in large quantities for cooling the hive, […]