What attracts bees to fly to flowers?

First of all, bees are selective about flowers when collecting nectar. Generally speaking, bees don't collect flowers that are in bud or just in full bloom. Its picking object is blooming flowers, because the content of nectar or secretion is rich at this time.

So how do bees find the source of honey?

Although there are different kinds of insect antennae, they all have activities such as looking for food, choosing hosts to lay eggs and looking for aliens. Function. Insects always swing their whiskers up and down from left to right, just like two antennas and radars, always receiving radio waves and tracking targets. This is because the antenna is an important sensory organ of insects, which has the functions of smell and touch. There are countless sensory organs on the antenna, which are connected with many nerve endings in the sensory fossa, and they are directly connected with the central nervous system. When stimulated by the outside world, the central nervous system can dominate insects to carry out various activities. The antenna of bee belongs to knee-shaped antenna, and its olfactory fossa is mainly distributed at the front end of antenna whip joint. With the help of tentacles, bees can smell the fragrance of various flowers and find nectar.

Second, the honey collection process (taking Gerbera jamesonii as an example)

The mouths of insects and bees belong to chewing mouthparts. Its mouthparts maintain a pair of left and right symmetrical knife-axe shaped maxilla, which has the ability to chew solid pollen and build a hive. The lower lip is elongated to form a slender tube with a long slot in the middle, which is helpful for sucking. If you put this small tube into the flower, you can suck honey continuously. Bees with such mouthparts can not only collect pollen, but also suck nectar.

Gerbera has more stamens, but bees will not be confused. Bees fly to the flower tray and collect honey layer by layer from the outside to the inside. It inserts a small tube along the bottom of the stamen, sucks nectar and picks one flower after another. In a pot of flowers, bees usually only pick three or four flowers and then fly to another pot of flowers, and the two colors are different. After picking flowers of all colors, the bees fly back to the first pot of flowers and carefully collect the honey-picked flowers again (as far as pot flowers are concerned). It moves lightly and continuously. Watching bees collect honey can be said to be a kind of beautiful enjoyment.

Bees collect not only honey, but also pollen. Its feet are its good helpers.

Among all kinds of insect feet, the tarsal joints of the hind feet of bees are particularly large, with grooves on the outside and long and dense villi around them, forming a "pollen basket". When bees shuttle through the flowers to collect pollen nectar, the hairy feet are covered with pollen, and then the pollen is combed off by the "pollen comb" on the tarsal bones of the hind feet and collected in the "pollen basket". Finally, fix the pollen into balls with honey. This kind of foot that can carry bee pollen is called a foot that carries pollen.

Thirdly, worker bees will not directly enter the honey storage room after collecting honey and returning to the nest, but will be caught by bees that have emerged for about 4 days and stored in the honey storage room; Small worker bees also feed their young bees with honey mixed with pollen.

Worker bee is a diligent worker. In a short and busy life, it not only raised young bees, took care of the queen bee and the male peak, but also offered sweet honey to mankind. "Litchi honey" praised: "What a lovely life! I don't want anything from people, but I give them good things. Bees are brewing honey and life; Brewing the sweetest life is not for yourself, but for mankind. Bees are small, but how noble bees are! "