CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Is raising bees harmful to the body? Zhihu (Is raising bees harmful to the body? Zhihu article)

1. Are domestic bees poisonous?

Bees are poisonous. No matter what species or color they are, they are all poisonous to a certain extent. There is a hard stinger on the bee's tail, which is connected to the internal organs in its body. The internal organs that produce toxins are called "venom glands."

When we are stung by a bee, the venom will flow into our body along the stinger, causing redness, swelling, heat and pain at the stung site, and sometimes poisoning, causing symptoms such as dizziness, fever, shortness of breath and nausea.

2. Are bees poisonous?

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The female bee has a poison gland and stinger at the tail

Bees are divided into honey bees, wasps, hornets and ground bees. The female bees have poison glands and stingers at the tail. The stingers are originally a deformation of the ovipositor, which can inject venom into the human body.

The stinger of a female bee has a hook on it, so after it stings the body, part of it remains in the wound. The sting of a wasp does not remain in the wound, but the sting of a wasp is more serious than that of a bee.

3. What are the disadvantages of long-term beekeeping?

The downside is: long-term lack of communication with outsiders makes thinking slow and people feel lonely

Beekeeping, or bee breeding, is the business of artificially raising bees and obtaining their products including honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen, beeswax, bee pupae and bee venom. It is included in the broad sense of livestock production, so in a broad sense, bees are also livestock.

4. Do artificially farmed bees sting people?

From the perspective of beekeeping, whether bees sting or not actually depends on the operation of us beekeepers. If our operation is standardized, bees generally will not sting people easily.

Bees have compound eyes, which are more sensitive to moving objects, but insensitive to stationary objects. I believe that many of my friends have had the experience of poking a beehive when they were young. Relatively speaking, if we run, we will usually be stung. If we don't move, the bees will usually fly around us for a while and then fly away. Our hands are relatively still. As long as we don't move quickly when operating and move gently, the bees will not sting us.

If it is a normal bee colony, the bees will not attack people easily. Even if we open the box and take out the honeycombs for inspection, as long as we are not rough and do not kill the bees, the bees will be relatively quiet. However, if it is a bee colony that has been suffering from disease and enemies for a long time, or has lost its queen, due to the unsafe factors in the bee colony, the bees will be relatively more aggressive, and in this case they are likely to attack people.

5. Why are captive bees more toxic than wild bees?

I wonder if you have ever encountered a similar situation: bees living in the wild are very strong, but after being taken back by beekeepers, they become weaker and weaker, and the bee colony is also very prone to disease.

This phenomenon seems to be very common in the eyes of Bee Listeners. There are six specific reasons for this:

1. Environmental factors.

Bee colonies in the wild choose to live in the place where they feel most comfortable, and the artificial beehive environment is not necessarily favored by the bee colonies, so the bee colonies in the wild will develop in a more comfortable environment, and naturally it is easier to strengthen the colony. This is why many friends who raise Chinese bees like to use the local breeding method to raise bees, the purpose is to restore the natural living environment of the bees as much as possible.

2. Honeycomb factors.

The honeycombs of wild bee colonies are all cast by themselves; when bees are raised artificially, artificial nest foundations are used in most cases; firstly, if the artificial nest foundation is not made of pure wax, the bees will not like it; secondly, there is a risk of artificial nest foundations being attached with pathogens, so it is easy for the bees to become sick.

3. Structural factors of bee honeycombs.

An unreasonable structure of bee combs can easily cause various diseases in the bee colony. For example, when there are fewer bees than combs in artificially raised bees, it is not conducive to the heat preservation of the colony. It also increases the difficulty for the bees to protect the combs, causing the bees to have a decreased resistance due to excessive physical exertion, thereby shortening their lifespan.

The structure of the beehives of wild bee colonies is completely controlled by themselves, so the bee colonies always live and develop in the most reasonable situation.

4. Factors of human interference.

Wild bee colonies live in a natural environment and are basically not disturbed by the outside world. However, artificially raised bees are often disturbed by beekeepers opening their boxes. What's more serious is that their stored honey is often exploited by beekeepers, so they have to work harder to maintain their survival.

5. The distance factor between bee colonies.

Bee colonies in the wild are actually very far away from each other, while artificially raised bees are basically all in the same beekeeping site. If the distance between bee colonies is too close, there will be the following three disadvantages:

1. When bee colonies are too close together, it is easy to cause bee theft. Once bee theft occurs, it will cause great harm to the bee colonies.

2. If the bee colonies are too close together, the nectar sources they collect will be more concentrated. If the nectar sources in one place are insufficient, it will lead to a supply shortage and affect the bees' nectar collection progress. If the nectar collection progress cannot keep up, the bee colonies will lack food and affect their development.

3. When bee colonies are too close together, they are more likely to attract the attention of natural enemies, such as hornets. Wild bee colonies are much less vulnerable to hornets than artificially bred bee colonies.

6. Disease factors.

Since many bee colony diseases are contagious to a certain extent, artificially raised bees are more likely to be infected by diseased bee colonies around them; because bee colonies in the wild are more scattered, there is basically no mutual transmission of diseases.