When it comes to bees, many of our friends are unfamiliar. In the past, bees belonged to wild animals, and we didn't know much about their lives. However, with the increasing domestication of bees, large-scale bee farms have now appeared everywhere, and we have become more aware and direct in observing bees.

Today we know that bees are highly social, colonial animals, and the most social colonial animals among all invertebrates. They can be said to be hardworking while still retaining a relatively strict hierarchical system. Under this hierarchical system, bees have survived in a changed environment for countless years.

Although bees have a high degree of social colonial behavior, it doesn't mean that bees live a long life. The social colony of bees is actually a way for bees to adapt to society, and this adaptation comes with sacrifice. Therefore, in a bee colony, whether it's the queen bee, worker bees or drones, they all make sacrifices. This strict colony structure is not due to the achievements of a certain type of bee, but the coordinated result of all bees in the colony.

We take the worker bees as an example. Although the queen bee has a longer lifespan, the queen bee has become a bee that only lays eggs, and she almost spends her entire life in the honeycomb. As long as the weather is warm and the temperature is suitable, the queen bee must constantly lay eggs, and it doesn't matter day or night. In fact, the worker bee seems to be the most free bee in the colony, but the worker bee is responsible for all work except laying eggs, and has lost the basic reproductive rights of a female bee. In fact, the worker bee loses the most, because the worker bee is basically dead from overwork,

When it comes to the lifespan of bees, we know that worker bees dominate a bee colony. If we study the number of bees, we can ignore the drones and queen bees. For a bee colony, taking the Guizhou example, a bee colony can reach more than 10 combs of bees, and if it's an intentional bee colony, the number of bees can even reach dozens of combs. Of course, for the domestic market, due to the restrictions of bee boxes, most are 10-15 combs, even if this number, taking the worker bee as an example,

A comb of 10 combs of bees, we calculate that each comb of bees has 3000 worker bees. So 10 combs of bees are 3000 bees, and the average number of worker bees in a comb is about 3000 bees. The average number of worker bees in a bee farm is about 50-60 combs, and if it's an intentional bee farm, the number of bees is usually 100-200 combs. If we take 100 combs of worker bees, then a bee farm has about 3 million worker bees. The lifespan of the worker bees is generally one to six months, and the main flowering period is 28 days. If we use this data to calculate, then in one month, a bee colony will die if all the bees that leave the hive die after one month,

This seems to be a very spectacular scene. Although the individual bees are small, they are still numerous. However, the opposite is true. In our bee farms,No matter how many bees we raise, normally we can see few bees. This is because the bees we see are not many. This is mainly due to the following aspects,

How many bees die in a bee farm a day?

Why are the dead bees not disappearing because they are decomposed?

Where do the dead bees go in the bee colony?

Cleaning the bottom of the bee box

How many bees die in a bee farm a day?

This question is related to the previous question. Some people may think that bees are many in bee farms, and death is a gradual death. During death, other microorganisms decompose them, so we don't see many dead bees.

This is one of the reasons. However, it is impossible to completely decompose them. This problem can be confirmed by other abnormal situations. For example, when we kill mites,Some friends have no experience in killing mites. When killing mites, they often kill a lot of bees. Even experienced beekeepers also kill a small number of bees when killing mites. The amount is just a matter of quantity. After all, killing mites is a special insecticide that can kill bees, and if the dosage is not right, it will kill bees along with the mites.When we kill mites, the number of dead bees in the bee farm is obvious. If we don't talk about killing mites, let's talk about the bees dying from pesticide poisoning. As soon as a few dozen or a hundred dead bees appear at the entrance of the bee box, we can immediately see many dead bees at the entrance of the bee box. Therefore, it doesn't exist that,

We cannot see the dead bees in the bee farm because the dead bees are quickly decomposed by microorganisms,

Where do the dead bees go?

In fact, it's normal for us not to see dead bees in the bee farm, especially during the main flowering period. Bees die a lot, but normally we can see few dead bees. The main reasons are two: one is that the death of bees in the bee farm is not large; two is that bees have a special cleaning way.

① The death of bees in the bee farm is not large: Regarding this point, the bees have been written in the previous articles. Bees are more efficient and more dangerous when they are old, so for worker bees, the number of dead bees in the colony is very small,Most of the worker bees die during foraging or scouting. Therefore, the number of dead bees in the bee farm seems to be a large number, but we don't see a large number of dead bees,

② Worker bees cleaning: As we know, there must be dead bees in the bee colony. Some bees die from not transforming from an inner bee to an outer bee, and some young bees die from being dragged out by worker bees and falling to the bottom of the honeycomb. Even these dead bees are cleaned up by worker bees, and the way to clean them is to drag them out of the honeycomb,

In fact, many friends haven't noticed a detail. When worker bees clean the dead bees in the bee colony, they don't just drag the dead bees out of the honeycomb, but they also drag the dead bees up into the air, and those worker bees that can bite and drag the dead bees flying out,

Careful observers can squat in front of the bee box and find that a considerable number of dead bees are dragged out of the honeycomb by worker bees, and then they fly into the air to carry the dead bees out.

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