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1. How do bees build honeycombs?

Beehive, (fengchao), is the English word for Comb. It is the place where bees live and reproduce, and is composed of honeycombs. Each honeycomb is suspended parallel to each other in the space inside the beehive and is perpendicular to the ground. The distance between honeycombs is 7 to 10 mm, which is called a bee path. Each honeycomb is composed of thousands of cells connected together, and is built by worker bees using the beeswax secreted by their own wax glands. The large and small hexagonal cells are used to cultivate drones and worker bees respectively, and the bottom surface is 3 rhombuses. The cells used to cultivate queen bees are called queen cells, which are shaped like drooping peanuts. They are temporarily built by the bee colony before swarming, mostly at the bottom and corners of the honeycomb. There are irregular transitional cells between the drone cells and the worker cells, and at the connection between the honeycomb and the nest frame, which are used to store honey and reinforce the honeycomb.

This time, I would like to introduce the amazing way bees build their nests. In the "bee classroom" and other activities held by our company, when asked "What shape is the bee's nest?", the children all answered loudly in unison, "It is a hexagon." When asked again, "Why is it a hexagon?", the children all tilted their heads, and some children answered interestingly, "Because bees have six legs." Some people think that bees actually want to build a cylindrical nest. No one knows what bees are thinking, but it is undoubtedly to use the least amount of materials to create the most spacious space. It can be seen that if the bee's nest is round or octagonal, there will be gaps, and if it is triangular or quadrilateral, the area will be reduced, so the hexagonal shape is the most efficient among these shapes.

This structure formed by arranging hexagons is called a honeycomb structure. Because this structure is very strong, it is used in the wings of airplanes and the walls of artificial satellites. The cells (called honeycombs) inside and outside the honeycomb are staggered by half, and the point where the sides of the combined hexagons intersect is the center of the inner hexagon. This is to increase the strength and prevent the bottom of the honeycomb from cracking. In addition, as can be seen from the cross-section, the honeycombs on both sides are facing upward.

The honeycomb is a strict hexagonal column. It has a hexagonal opening at one end and a closed hexagonal pyramid base at the other end, which is composed of three identical rhombuses. In the early 18th century, French scholar Malarch once measured the size of a large number of honeycombs. What surprised him was that all the obtuse angles of the rhombuses that formed the chassis of these honeycombs were 109°28′, and all the acute angles were 70°32′. Later, French mathematician König and Scottish mathematician Marc Lorraine calculated theoretically that if the least amount of material is to be consumed, the largest rhombus container can be made at this angle. In this sense, bees can be called "genius mathematicians and designers."

Worker bees feed their larvae in the cells and store honey and pollen. The honeycomb is formed at an angle of about 9 to 14 degrees to prevent the honey from flowing out. The ecology of bees and the structure of the honeycomb are really amazing, and can be said to be the work of nature. It can be seen that, apart from the still unknown world of bees, just looking at the honeycomb, it can be seen that human intelligence is far inferior to theirs in terms of natural creativity. Bees, as insects with excellent sociality, have survived and reproduced since the past, which is older than human history, and have brought us many benefits such as honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen and beeswax. At the beginning of the new century, when making the nest frame, the creativity and wonder of bees made us think deeply.

The honeycomb of bees is an amazing natural building. The honeycomb is a hexagonal chamber. The sealed honey in the honeycomb is naturally ripe honey, and the reddish brown is pollen.

2. How do bees build nests?

Bees eat honey and pollen, and their bodies secrete tiny wax flakes. They then use their mouths to stick the small wax flakes together, one by one, and slowly build a honeycomb.

3. How to make a beehive in Minecraft?

1. First of all, bees are creatures that spawn in the flower forest and are neutral creatures. In creative mode, we can go to the flower forest by entering the /locatebiome minecraft:flower_forest command.

2. Then, click on the green coordinates below to generate a tp command to go to the Flower Forest. Press Enter to go to the Flower Forest.

3. In the flower forest, we can find trees with beehives with a high probability, and we can find bees next to the beehives.

4. At the same time, we can find bees by planting trees. First, plant oak saplings or birch saplings, and make sure there are enough flowers around the saplings.

5. Then, we need to use bone meal to ripen the sapling.

6. Finally, when the tree is ripened, there is a 5% chance that a tree with a beehive will be generated, and the beehive of the tree will contain 1-2 bees.

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The beehive in the original game is naturally generated and cannot be synthesized; artificial beehives can be synthesized. The materials are 6 arbitrary wooden boards plus 3 honey combs. The synthesis table is as follows:

How to craft a beehive

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A hornet's nest? Do you mean a beehive? Usually, beehives are on large maps. You can use a net to smash them and catch a few bees.

After you have bees, you need to build an artificial beehive and you can raise them.

Artificial beehives require seeds to be squeezed in a juicer to extract oil, and then the oil is placed in a woodworking machine to make soaked wooden sticks, which can then be synthesized.

Forestry Mod? If so, use a bug net (spoon) to catch it.

synthesis:

4. How do bees build nests? Where can they usually be found?

Asia At first glance, today's humans might not have much in common with our great ape ancestors. But what about other species that diverged at similar times? How much do Asian honey bees (Apis cerana) and European honey bees (Apis mellifera) have in common, for example, after two million years of evolving independently? Ming-Xian Yang, who works at Yunnan Agricultural University in China and Rhodes University in South Africa, explains that despite having completely different appearances -- Asian honey bees are much smaller than European honey bees, for example -- and using completely different methods to keep their hives from melting from overheating, the two species can still communicate with each other through their waggle dances and even live in harmony in the same hive. This unexpected ability to cooperate intrigued Yang and colleagues Ken Tan, Sarah Radloff, and H. Randall Hepburn, who wanted to see if Asian and European honey bees could build their hives together when living together. The two species actively build a nest together. The arrow at the top right points to a European worker bee, and the arrow at the bottom right points to an Asian worker bee. According to Yang, bees build their cells in a specific way. "In a dark hive, with no foreman or blueprint, each bee has to work on its own, and I wanted to see if one species could work with another species to build a hive," he explains. Yang went to Thailand to work with Mananya Phiancharoen at King Mongkut's University of Technology. He brought hives filled with Asian bees and placed them in a European colony led by a European queen, while also introducing European bees into Asian hives. When the bees become adults, they merge to form a hybrid colony. He then did some tests to see how the hybrids and purebreds built their hives using the wax produced by each species. It seemed that the European bees were not too bothered by the Asian bees' wax, and they happily used it to build their own hives, regardless of whose wax it was. At the same time, the hybrid bees were able to colonize with either Asian or European wax. When the team analyzed the hexagonal cells of the honeycombs, they found that European and hybrid colonies expanded the size of the cells based on the Asian honeycombs, making them larger European-style cells. However, the Asian honeybees seemed to be much more sensitive. When the hive was occupied by only Asian honeybees, they would not expand their homes with wax from either source. European honeybees, on the other hand, seemed to be more adaptable than their Asian compatriots. In the hybrid colonies, they were able to let the sensitive Asian honeybees choose the location to build their honeycombs, but if the European honeybees were left to decide for themselves, they would definitely not build honeycombs in that location. But how did these hybrid workers organize themselves to build their mixed hives? Yang carefully removed a hive that housed a hybrid colony and filmed the bees at work. According to him, the wild nesting bees first built a bridge-like chain for other workers to stand on while they built the honeycomb with new wax. Surprisingly, when Yang observed a mixed-species colony working on a hive, he found that both species were equally committed to building chains and combs. This shows that bees can ignore their differences and work together. Although European and Asian honey bees have evolved independently for two million years, they still build honeycombs using the same methods passed down from their ancestors. What's the scented thing stuck to it? Wipe it off well...

If that doesn't work, look for a pest control company.

Maybe your laundry detergent smells too good. If you find a beehive, call the fire department to take it away.