Ways to search for your hive bees.
Bees are smart insects, because they can work all day, they have their own hierarchy and the division of labor in the hive. They are also able to navigate in space, because behind the nectar, bees can go a distance of a few kilometers from their housing. In the evening they are without hindrance to their house. In this article, we will talk about how the workers are guided by, and can find their housing.
Orientation with the help of vision
Many scientists conducted research and tried to find out how the bees find their house among a large number of other hives, how can they return a few kilometers to their housing? There is a lot of explanation for this.
Insects have good vision. It serves as a navigator. It is worth noting that these insects have no vision in people like people, and is not quite an eyeball. It is rather a ball that rotates around its orbit. They can see not only forward, but also on the sides. The bees that are inside the hive, that is, the nurse bees, when departing from the nest at a decent distance from the hive, will not find the way back. Because they are not workers, they do not collect nectar. These are non -working bees, and do not know the road back to the hive.
What happens, and how will insects recognize their path? The fact is that in the early spring, young ladies, which recently were born, make their first departure. Its duration is 6 minutes. All this time, the insect circles around its hive, rises high enough and looks where her house is. In the next side, the bee moves for a long time, and in the same way then recognizes its house. Many scientists note that insects, as it were, draw up a plan of the area and can navigate it. They determine the correctness of flight by fields and forests, various buildings. This helps to find housing.
Smell orientation
Scientists also found out that each family has its own smell. It is on this smell that the bees are guided when, they are near their house. Although there have been repeatedly observed cases when insects returned from a bribe and tried to penetrate into someone else's hive. Thus, they got lost, but the bees of the watchman who stood at the Letter did not let them go. Such insects died.
Interesting Facts:
- It is also noted that a small number of insects fly to other hives and are trying to join a new family. This also happens and proof of this is the research of beekeepers. For some time, they marked workers from one hive with white paint: they put points on abdomen. Further, it was discovered that for some time these insects have already arrived to other hives, that is, they mixed up their house with another.
- The bee can confuse its hive with a stranger if it is weakened and a strong wind is observed. Therefore, the smell is not much felt. The worker can confuse housing if the hives have the same color. Therefore, it is not for nothing that experienced beekeepers marry the hives in different colors, and paint them not for beauty, but so that insects can find their house. The bees are not distinguished by all colors, but only some. Therefore, if you put a yellow, orange and light green hive nearby, then insects can confuse their houses with strangers. Therefore, try to put the hives side by side, staining them in contrasting colors.
- There is also an opinion that insects are guided in space in relation to magnetic flows, as well as the radiation of the sun, its location. It is according to the whereabouts of the sun that the worker finds her house. A number of studies were conducted, according to which the color of the hives was changed on one day. The most interesting thing is that insects that are used to flying into a blue hive, just the same then fly into a blue house. Only inside him do they understand that they did not come to their home. Therefore, one of the significant values \u200b\u200bis the color of the hive. Accordingly, beekeepers are recommended to paint houses in different, contrasting colors that insects can distinguish from each other.
- In the course of the study, it was noted that if a fairly experienced bee that flies about a distance of about 2 km from her house in different directions, move to a box to a greater distance, then most likely, she will not find the way home. This is due to the fact that the worker is outside the hive and the marked territory. She does not distinguish, does not recognize this area. It will seem new, so the insect will not be able to return home.
Bees are amazing insects, which during the collection of nectar are guided not only in the area. The smell, the color of housing and sunlight helps them to find a hive.
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