The main food of bees is honey and pollen, and it is also the staple food of bees for life. Bees collect nectar from plant flowers and brew it themselves when they come back. When it matures, it will be stored in the hive, and there will be no flower source in the future, so it can be enjoyed slowly in winter. Bees are one of the few animals in nature that can make their own food, so bees are smart and hardworking little insects. The greatest contribution is to benefit mankind by pollinating plants. Children must be taken care of!
What is the function of bees?
Bees are one of the important insects to improve the human environment and an important partner for human survival. It pollinates crops, fruit trees, vegetables, grasses, camellia oleifera crops and Chinese medicine plants, and the yield can be increased by several times to dozens of times. The honey produced by it has high medicinal value and nutritional value, and it is a common health care tonic. The bee pollen produced by it is also called "mini nutrition bank", and the royal jelly produced by it is a high-grade nutrient for human beings, which can not only enhance physical fitness and prolong life, but also treat chronic diseases such as neurasthenia, anemia and gastric ulcer. Its venom is effective for rheumatism and neuritis. Beeswax and propolis are both raw materials for light industry. So bees are indispensable and important partners for human survival.
Why is honey important to bees?
With the development of science and technology, the shadow of science is everywhere around us. It is always around us to help us solve some problems in our lives. It can be seen that science is still very important to us. When I was a child, my father-in-law raised a large group of bees, which buzzed every day. My scientific curiosity began to think, "So what?" This problem really kills me. After reading a lot of books, I still got nothing. I'm a little disappointed, but my scientific mind drives me not to give up. I searched all afternoon, but I still found nothing. Inadvertently see the computer in the room, I think I can look it up on the computer! Computer gang: "little doctor"! I turn on the computer and type "? There are several answers on the computer, some of which are my dream answers. I looked carefully for only two or three, and I have no doubt. 1 period: Many bees live only one year and die in winter. But bees are over one year old, so they collect honey in advance and store it for the winter. Second: bees collect nectar mainly for survival. Bees are social insects, and they have a fine division of labor. All their activities are for the survival of the group. Third: mainly feed the drones and queen bees in the hive and use this thing to live in the nest. The honey we eat is synthesized by bees swallowing honey and spitting honey for hundreds of times, and it is rich in nutrition. My eyes wander here. I think since computers are called "little doctors", I should trust them. It's not bad to believe one more! Yes, from computers, televisions, books, newspapers and life, we should boldly believe everything we see. Looking at this knowledge more will add luster to our life, mind and study, and make your life better!
What do bees produce honey for?
In a bee colony, there are three grades of bees: queen bee: the task is to lay eggs; Worker bees: Female bees lacking reproductive ability, unable to lay eggs, are responsible for all the work in the hive, including collecting pollen nectar, brewing honey and feeding young bees; Drone: The mission is to mate with the queen bee. Honey-making process: the head gland of bees secretes a chemical substance. After adding nectar, this chemical can convert the sugar in nectar into honey, and then bees will spread the honey and fan the wind with their wings to evaporate most of the water, leaving honey. Pollen and honey are stored separately in the nest frame. Nursery bees are the initial physiological stage of worker bees and are responsible for feeding young bees. The gland on the head of a nursing bee will produce food for the larvae, that is, royal jelly. Older larvae can eat honey and pollen. For the female larvae selected to be cultured as queen bees, nursing bees always feed them with royal jelly, and they can develop into queen bees in the future.
How is honey produced? Is it bee spitting or excrement?
Honey is a sweet substance stored in the nest and spleen, which is collected by bees from nectar or nectar secreted outside flowers and mixed with bee enzyme solution after full brewing.
Honey is the main product of bees, and it is a sweet and viscous, transparent or translucent liquid. Honey mainly comes from nectar, followed by nectar and honey dew. Nectar is nectar secreted by plant flowers, and nectar is excreta of aphids, leafhoppers, etc. Honey dew is the nectar secreted by plants outside flowers. Bees suck the nectar of aphids, cicadas, tree juice or sweet couples secreted by nectar tubes with their tongue tubes. It is made by mixing saliva with bee mouthparts, temporarily storing it in a safe bag, returning to the nest, spitting it out in the nest room and brewing it repeatedly.
Honey, honey sucks nectar from the floral organs and nectaries of the source plants with a tongue straw, brings it back to the hive, spits it into the hive from the honey sac, and sucks it out repeatedly by bees, and stores the nectar secreted by the honey sac mixed with invertase in the hive. Under the action of enzyme, the polysaccharide in nectar is decomposed into glucose and fructose, and the water content is reduced to about 20%, which basically forms mature honey. Up to now, people can get the finished raw honey by centrifugal action of honey shaker. From the perspective of food science, honey belongs to plant food.
What effect does honey have on human body?
Honey is nectar collected by insects and bees from flowers of flowering plants and brewed in honeycombs. Bees suck nectar or secretion with water content of about 80% from plants, store it in their second stomach, ferment it for 30 minutes under the action of invertase in the body, and then return to the hive to spit it out. Honeycombs are often kept at about 35℃, and after a period of time, water evaporates into honey with water content less than 20%, which is stored in the nest holes and sealed with beeswax. Besides glucose and fructose, honey also contains many vitamins, minerals and amino acids. The nutritional value is very high, and 1kg honey contains 2940kcal of calories. Honey is a supersaturated solution of sugar, which will crystallize at low temperature, glucose will crystallize, and fructose is the main part that does not crystallize. Not only in the refrigerator, but also indoors in winter will produce crystals. When heated, the crystal will change back to liquid, which is not a quality problem. Honey does not crystallize when it contains a lot of impurities. Sometimes pure honey and sweetened honey will be distinguished by whether they crystallize at low temperature, but if the impurities in honey are filtered out, they will not crystallize, so they cannot be distinguished by whether they crystallize or not. Honey is very resistant to storage. T.M.Davis, an American archaeologist, once found in the pyramids of Egypt that bottled honey about 3,300 years ago had no record of deterioration at all, so some people say that honey is the only food that will not deteriorate. Honey contains less water, so neither bacteria nor yeast can survive in honey, but some anaerobic bacteria (such as Botox) can exist as inactive spores. Because of the underdeveloped gastrointestinal digestive organs and poor gastric acid secretion, infants under one year old should not eat honey without high temperature disinfection. Spores in honey do not reproduce to produce toxins. Under normal circumstances, anaerobic bacteria in honey have no danger of reproduction in human body. Honey is more easily absorbed by human body than sucrose (the main component of sugar), because honey is composed of monosaccharide glucose and fructose, which can be directly absorbed by human body without enzyme decomposition. The easiest way to use honey is to make a drink with warm water, usually coated directly on bread or scones. Sometimes it is used as a condiment to replace sugar in drinks such as coffee or black tea. Fructose, one of the main components of honey, is not easy to be sweet at high temperature, so be careful not to overdo it when adding honey to hot drinks. Adding honey to black tea will turn black, because black tea contains tannic acid, which combines with iron molecules in honey to form black iron tannic acid. Adding honey to barbecue will make the sweetness and color better. In medicine, it can be used to treat stomatitis. In traditional Chinese medicine, honey pills are made of powder of traditional Chinese medicine, such as Bawei Pill (alias: Bawei Dihuang Pill, Guifu Shenqi Pill) and Guizhi Fuling Pill. The main material of the remaining beehive after extracting honey from the beehive is beeswax, which is secreted by worker bees and used to make beehives. Beeswax can be used as a raw material for candles, paints, etc. Pygmies living in the tropical rain forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa and northeast China live on honey as their staple food in the edible season. Pygmies are hunting people. They usually use nets hundreds of meters long to catch deer, but from May to June, they mainly collect honey as food. Movable beehives are tools for beekeeping. In a cubic box, 8 ~ 10 thick plates called nest frames are discharged. Like natural beehives, beehives are arranged vertically and in parallel. As the foundation of the nest and spleen, the honeycomb is a rectangular hollow wooden frame with the length-width ratio of 1: 2. One wall is made of beeswax and paraffin, engraved with hexagons, which is the basis for bees to make beehives. In general, honey is stored in the upper part of the nest plate, and the lower part is used as the area for hatching bee eggs, cultivating larvae and storing pollen. After storing honey in a hexagonal cylindrical nest, bees will seal the nest with beeswax. In general, during the period from late autumn to spring when there are few flowers, bees will consume the stored honey. When the larvae hatch in early spring, it is the period with the least honey stock. From then on, the stock of honey began to recover with the opening of flowers. With the reduction of smallpox in summer, the stock of honey began to decrease. The amount of honey brought back by bees is about 20mg at a time. There are two kinds of beekeeping: mobile beekeeping and fixed beekeeping. Fixed beekeeping is to collect the nectar of open flowers in one place one by one according to the flowering period. Mobile beekeeping moves from south to north from spring to summer according to the flowering period of specific flowers. The flowering peak of plants will not be too long, and bees will gather one flower. ......
What is honey brewed by bees used for?
Hehe, the landlord's question is more lovely.
Honey brewed by bees is not for human consumption, but a necessity to maintain the normal operation of bees. Bee larvae mainly eat pollen, and when they are adults (ordinary bees), they eat honey instead. Bees eat honey to produce energy. Only when they have physical strength can they go out to collect stems, honey and water. In summer, they have to flap their wings and fan the wind to cool down. Eating honey in winter generates heat to maintain the body temperature of bees (the central temperature is 35 degrees). Honey is also needed to make beehives. Different seasons, different honey flows, and more nectar in spring and summer. At this time, the nectar can't be eaten, so it is stored in the nest room, concentrated and evaporated to produce honey. When there are few flowers in autumn and winter, and the daily collection can't maintain the normal operation of the bee colony, it begins to consume the honey stored before.
The role of bees
Honey has many benefits and tastes sweet. "Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica" said, "The evil spirits in the heart control convulsion, convulsion, relieve the deficiency of the five internal organs, replenish qi, relieve pain, and eliminate diseases. It can be seen that they have two major effects of treating diseases and strengthening the body." Its functions are summarized as follows:
Clearing heat. "Materia Medica for the Prevention of Diseases" says, "If you feel hot and your limbs are not harmonious, it is good to eat a bowl of honey syrup". Because honey has the function of nourishing yin, it is suitable for people with deficiency heat. Recently, it has been used for rhinitis, sinusitis, corneal ulcer and facial limbitis.
Make up for it Honey can nourish the temper. In ancient times, it was said that it was refreshing after a long service, with beautiful appearance, strong will, strong intelligence, no hunger and no aging, and it was suitable for weak hands and aftercare after illness. Therefore, "medicine meaning" has the essence of honey picking flowers, sweet taste and nourishing the five internal organs.
Detoxify. Can be used for treating dermatitis and trichomonad, and relieving aconite poison and alcohol poison. Modern scientific research believes that caffeic acid has anti-cancer effect. It is reported that honey is a good oral disinfectant in Russia. Because honey can detoxify and tonify, the ancients often used it to make various creams. In the United States, honey mixed with various fruit juices was used as clarifier, and the effect was ideal, and the nutritional value could be maintained.
Moisten dryness. It can treat lung dryness and cough. Ginger is better. Zhang Xichun believes that its nature is "cool and smooth, and it is also an important product for clearing and moistening the lungs, benefiting phlegm and relieving cough"; Old people are short of body fluid, so they can take this boiled water to moisten them.
Pain relief. Honey has acute and analgesic effects. Dr. Wei Changchun often takes it with Wu Mei An Wei Pill to treat biliary ascariasis, cholecystitis and gallstones. External application of honey can also treat burns, frostbite and various injuries.
However, it should be noted that people with excessive phlegm, abdominal distension and diarrhea should use honey with caution.
Modern pharmacological research has proved that honey for external use has many functions, such as detoxification, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, antiseptic, wound protection, cell regeneration, exudate absorption and so on.
Can bees in honey eat? What's the role?
You can eat it. Think of it as protein.
It doesn't work. The bees in it are all caused by unclean filtration and have no special effect.