Why do bees like dancing?

The world of bees is happy. They will not only "talk" with Buzz, but also call their companions with wonderful dance "talk". Italian bees are more magical. If the honey source is found within 9 meters, they will dance a "round" dance to call their companions. If honey sources are found 9 meters away, they will automatically switch to "sickle" dance; If the honey source is more than 37 meters, they will dance the "8" tail dance again, so that their companions can find the honey source accurately.

Bees in different areas have different dance habits. When the bees in India are more than 3 meters away from the honey source, they will dance the "8" tail dance, but the beat is relatively slow; There is also a stingless bee in Sri Lanka. When they find the honey source, they don't jump at all, just jump around the hive at will to attract the excitement and attention of bees.

Bees have amazing "performance" in overeating, but bees have no habit of hibernating. As individuals, bees cannot maintain the necessary body temperature. But bees have the overall cold and antifreeze strength, and a "winter meeting" that enjoys itself is born. The members of the bee "Winter Club" work hard, and they start to act in early winter every year. As long as the outside temperature drops, the bees in the hive will crawl around endlessly with the queen bee as the center, just like a ball of flesh and blood.

Among them, the bees closest to the queen bee enjoy a lot of honey with high calorific value, which can release a lot of heat energy, so that the bees on the outer layer of the sphere will not freeze to death. The outer layer of bees can also play a role. They are always intertwined, resulting in a crowded situation, thus forming a thermal insulation layer, so that the brothers in the inner layer will not catch cold.

The bees in the outer layer and the inner layer often exchange positions repeatedly, which also regulates the temperature of the bee colony to some extent. Smart bees rely on this team spirit to spend the winter safely.

The hard work of bees begins in spring. They not only have the quality of hard work, but also have extraordinary management skills. The water content of nectar collected in nature is very high, reaching 40% ~ 60%, and bees can always find ways to reduce the water content below 20%.

A swarm of bees can produce150 ~ 250kg of honey in a working season on average, which means180 ~ 350kg of water will be evaporated during honey treatment. Smart bees will send the brewed honey to a special warehouse, such as a beehive, and seal it with wax for later use. Honey, as the fruit of hard work, is hard to come by. Therefore, in order to defend the fruits of labor, bees never slack off. As long as there is a sign of trouble, they will immediately send out an alarm message and unite with the outside world.

Bee larvae are loved by people, and are fed by "nannies" more than 1300 times a day, so their bodies are rich in calories. But if you spend the winter alone in a separate nest, you can't keep warm. So the worker bees who love them will find ways to flap their wings and use the heat emitted by their bodies to raise the temperature of the hive to ensure the safety of the young bees for the winter.