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1. What are the living habits and characteristics of bees?

The living habits of bees are as follows:

1. Polyphagous: that is, they feed on pollen and nectar from plants of different families or from flowers of a certain color (not limited to plant species), such as Italian bees and Chinese bees.

2. Monophagous: that is, they only feed on a certain plant or closely related species, such as cornflower bees. The flowers visited by various bee species are closely related to the length of their mouthparts: for example, species with shorter mouthparts such as the family of hymenoptera, the family of hymenoptera, and the family of schizoglossidae visit open flowers of the family of Rosaceae, the family of Cruciferae, the family of Apiaceae, and the family of Ranunculaceae. However, species of the family of leafcutter, the family of hymenoptera, and the family of Apidae visit flowers with deep flower tubes such as the family of Fabaceae and the family of Lamiaceae because of their longer mouthparts.

3. Parasitism: Female bees do not build nests, but lay eggs in the host's nest. Young larvae generally have large heads and mandibles to destroy the host's eggs or young larvae.

4. Oligophagy: that is, feeding on the flowers of plants of closely related families and genera, such as the alfalfa bee.

5. Sociality: Bees live in groups. There are three types of bees in a bee colony: queen bee, worker bees and drones. There is one queen bee (in some exceptional cases there are two queen bees), 10,000 to 150,000 worker bees, and 500 to 1,500 drones.

Additional information:

In the honey bee society, they still live a matriarchal life. Among the members of their group family, there is a queen bee, which is a female bee with reproductive ability, responsible for laying eggs and reproducing offspring, and "ruling" the family. Although the queen bee has mated, not all eggs she lays are fertilized.

It can lay fertilized eggs according to the needs of the group family. The worker bees are fed with pollen, and the bees develop into female bees (worker bees without reproductive ability) after 21 days; it can also lay unfertilized eggs, which develop into drones after 24 days. When the members of this group family reproduce too much and cause crowding, they need to be divided into groups.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Bee (Insects)

Bees can be monophagous, eating only nectar from one type of flower cluster; bees can also be polyphagous, eating nectar from many types of flower clusters; bees can also be oligophagous.

2. How many types of bees are there?

9 types: Western honey bee, small honey bee, big honey bee, Oriental honey bee, small black honey bee, big black honey bee, Sabah bee, green honey bee, Sulawesi honey bee.

1. Oriental honey bee (scientific name: Apis cerana Fabricius) was discovered and named by Fabricius in 1793. It is mainly distributed in South Asia and East Asia. It is one of the nine bee species discovered in the world. It originated in the East and is referred to as the Oriental honey bee. It is a medium-sized species of honey bee and is distributed in many Asian countries such as China, Iran, Japan, North Korea, and the Russian Far East.

2. The Green Nu Bee (Apis nuluensis Tingek) is a medium-sized bee species. It is found in the Green Nu Mountain area in Sabah, Malaysia, and has also been found in Guangzhou, China. The worker bees are darker in color, mostly dark black, and are also called "black bees". The Green Nu Bee lives in mountainous areas above 1,700 meters above sea level, lives in caves, and builds compound honeycombs in tree holes. It can be domesticated as a breeding bee species.

3. The honey bee (Apis florea Fabricius, 1787) is a small to medium-sized bee of the class Insecta. It often builds its nest in grass or bushes, so it is commonly called the grass bee in Yunnan.

4. Black honey bee, Apis laboriosa (Smith, 1871) is the largest species of honey bee in the genus Apis of the family Apidae. Because the 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 honey bee. The abdomen of the worker bee is slender and dark brown; the head is equal in length and width; the base of the lip and the forehead are slightly raised, and the engravings on them are uneven in thickness.

The male bee has large compound eyes, connected at the top, and brown; the antennae have black whips; the chest and abdomen are black, without reddish-brown markings. It mainly feeds on plants such as the Ericaceae family, and can produce 20 to 40 kilograms of honey each year, which has important economic value.

5. Black honey bee, Apis andreniformis (Smith, 1858), is an insect of the genus Apis in the family Apidae. It usually builds a single honeycomb hive on small trees on secondary sparse grass slopes below 1,000m above sea level, usually 2.5-3.5m above the ground. The honeycomb is fixed on the tree branches.

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There are three types of them. The following is an introduction.

Worker bees, drone bees, and queen bees - three types

Worker bees and drones account for the majority, and there is usually only one queen bee.

Drones are haploid, while worker bees and queen bees are diploid. The queen bee secretes a substance that inhibits the development of worker bees into queen bees. When the queen bee dies, all the worker bees will continue to develop until one fully develops and becomes a queen bee. But sometimes two worker bees may fully develop at the same time, and then the two "queens" will fight each other until only one is left to sit on the throne of queen bee. In a bee colony, worker bees participate in labor and have no reproductive ability; the queen bee is responsible for the reproduction of the entire bee colony - of course, the participation of drones is required!

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1. Black Bee

2. Little Bee

3. Black Bee

4. Big Bee

5. Sabah Bee

6. Green Bee

7. Suweilaxi Bee

8. Oriental honey bee

9. Honey bee

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3. How many species of bees are there in the world?

There are about 40 species of bees in the world, of which about 10 belong to the Oriental honey bee species, including the more common Chinese honey bees, Indian honey bees, Japanese honey bees, etc.; there are 25 to 30 species belonging to the Western honey bee species, which can be divided into European types (about 9 species), African types (about 15 species), Middle Eastern types (about 4 to 5 species), etc.

Common ones include Chinese honey bees, Italian honey bees, Carniola honey bees, Caucasian honey bees, European black honey bees, Tunisian honey bees, East African honey bees and Anatolian honey bees. The four bee species with the highest economic value recognized by the world are all from Europe, namely European black honey bees, Italian honey bees, Carniola honey bees and Caucasian honey bees.

Additional information:

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.

The queen bee's social division of labor is to lay eggs full-time, shouldering the social responsibility of reproducing offspring. Its body is very strong, with a big belly, weighing twice as much as a worker bee, and it has lost the slenderness of a "female" figure.

During the egg-laying period, the queen bee feeds royal jelly to the worker bees every day to promote rapid metabolism and maintain strong egg-laying ability. According to expert statistics, the queen bee of the Chinese honey bee can lay 700 to 800 eggs a day, but the most is 100% higher than this, that is the queen bee of the Italian honey bee, which can reach 1500 to 2000 eggs. In terms of weight, the average number of eggs laid every day is almost twice its own body weight.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Bee

There are about 35 to 40 species of bees in the world. There are about 10 species of oriental bees, 25 to 30 species of western bees, 9 of which are European. There are about 15 species of African, and 4 to 5 species of Middle Eastern. The four bee species with the highest economic value recognized by the world are all from Europe, namely, the European black bee, the Italian bee, the Carniola bee (also translated as the Carniola bee) and the Caucasian bee.