How do the bees know where there is honey

Most of the artificial bees live in wooden boxes, while wild bees live in wall holes and tree caves. Although it is small, it can fly to a place thousands of meters away to collect the sweet juice of Baihua to make honey. How do you know where there is nectar?

Bee is a kind of insect of collective life. Among a group of bees, there are a bee king (female bee) and many workers and a few males. Workers are the most hard work in the bee colony. It is responsible for collecting honey, reconnaissance, guarding, cleaning the beehive, and feeding small bees.

In the warm season of spring flowers, some bees who do reconnaissance work fly out of the box to find honey source. When the reconnaissance bee found the honey source outside, sucked a little nectar and pollen, and flew back quickly. After returning to the bee colony, it kept dancing. Don't think that this is just a kind of joy. In fact, this dance is used to indicate the distance and direction of the honey source.

The bees in the beehive, the good news brought by the reconnaissance bee, soon a part of the bees flew in the direction guided by the reconnaissance bee. After these bees who went out of the bees flew back, they also danced to their companions to mobilize everyone to pick up honey. In this way, there are ten or ten passes, and more and more bees rush to the honey source to carry out a large number of collection.

Author: Li Jiarui

Source: Shaanxi Science and Technology News

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