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What kind of bees are black?

There are two types of black bees:

1. Black Bee

It is small and agile, and is an important pollinator of tropical cash crops. It is distributed in South Asia and Southeast Asia. In China, it has been found in the northern tropical regions south of the Tropic of Cancer, such as Jinghong, Mengla in Xishuangbanna Prefecture in southern Yunnan Province, and Cangyuan and Gengma in Lincang area.

2. Black Bee

It is the largest bee of the genus Apis in the family Apidae. Because its main production area is under the snow-capped mountains around the Himalayas and it lives on rocks, it is also commonly known as the Himalayan bee. Its abdomen is all black-brown and it mainly feeds on plants such as the Ericaceae family.

There are many types of bees, mainly including small bees, black small bees, large bees, black large bees, Sabah bees, Suweilasi bees, green slave bees, western bees and oriental bees. The first four are wild bee species, distributed in Hainan, Guangxi and Yunnan in China, and the latter two include many subspecies, most of which are geographically isolated natural subspecies. Artificially bred bee varieties are mostly hybrids.

Additional information:

Wasp, also known as hornet, horse wasp or killer bee, is a general term for the Vespoidea of ​​the Hymenoptera order Sphenotype. It is a typical carnivorous insect in the wild. It has the dual functions of pest control and pollination of crops. It can prey on most insects and can be used for the prevention and control of pests of crops, forests and fruit trees.

As a predator, the collection activities of wasps are closely related to their individual learning and memory abilities. On the one hand, this is to adapt to changes in the external environment. On the other hand, wasps need to remember the routes between prey and nests and the specific locations of prey such as bees in order to obtain the best collection plan.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Bee (Insects)

Reference source: People's Daily Online - Experiments prove that "killer bees" have super long olfactory memory

What kind of bees are there in the beehive?

This is the type II of chronic paralysis of bees, also known as "black bee robbers", "black bees" or "hair-losing black bee disease". It is mostly prevalent in spring and summer. Infected bees have the ability to fly at the beginning, their hair is easy to fall off, their body color turns black, they are smaller than healthy bees, and their abdomens are shiny. At present, the following comprehensive prevention and control measures are mainly taken. ① Supplement nutritious feed in time in early spring. ② Replace the queen bee. ③ For a small number of seriously ill bee colonies, kill and eliminate sick bees in time to prevent the spread of the disease. Usually, the box replacement method is adopted to shake off the bees, and the healthy bees quickly enter the new beehive, while the sick bees are left behind due to their slow movement. They can be collected and killed to reduce the source of infection.

There is no need to catch the drones. Just put the honey comb on its original side and put the queen bee on the honey comb. Separate it with the queen excluder and shake it on the other side of the beehive with the door closed. It will be done in 3 days on this side.