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by Susmita Adhikari | 13-03-2020 13:36
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Plants compete with one another: They all want to be pollinated, as only then can they reproduce. The bee’s senses are adapted to signals that are emitted by flowers. On the one hand by their colour and on the other by their scent. Bees can see colours. They prefer to fly to-wards the colours yellow and blue. They cannot see red. For example, they only see the poppy as a dark spot. However, bees can see ultraviolet light, and the flowering plants “know” this. They have pigments that reflect ultraviolet light. This means the bees know where the nectar sources are and therefore the optimum places to land. It is fascinating that bees can only see colours at a maximum flight speed of 5 km/h. At higher speeds they see their environment in black and white.
Bees smell with their antennae. Thanks to the mobility of the antennae, they can also smell spatially, enabling them to tell which direction the smell is coming from, so they can head straight for the flowering plant, pollenate it and collect the nectar. The bees suck up the nectar, the basis for honey, using their proboscis and store it in their honey stomach. Pollen, which contains a lot of protein and is primarily used to rear the brood, is picked up by the bees almost as they fly past. It sticks to the hairs on the bees, and when they visit the next plant of the same species it is transferred in adequate quantities to their stigma. This is how the male pollen grain unites with the female egg cell to mature into seeds in the flower. This is the basic process of pollination, and the continuation of the plant’s existence is guaranteed. Meanwhile, the majority of the pollen grains stay on the back legs of the bees like “pants” and are taken to the hive as valuable food. A bee visits around 100 flowers per foraging flight, with a maximum speed of up to 30 kilometres per hour. With ten foraging flights per day, this equates to 1,000 flowers. With a maximum of 40 flights per day, however, considerably more is possible. If 20,000 bees swarm out of a hive several times a day, 20 million flowers or more are pollinated each day. Bees are loyal to flowers. They remain faithful to a productive plant species until it stops flowering. Bees are also loyal to locations. They recruit other bees in their community to fly to the chosen food sources using their dances and other assistance in the field. This continuity has enormous advantages, as it ensures that pollen is deposited within the same plant species and that the sequence of flowering in a region is utilised to optimum effect. This also simplifies or guides the work of the beekeeper. He or she can change the location of the hives depending on the flowers available so that the bees always find the best conditions and create honey from as few flower sources as possible. |
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20 Comments
nice report
Posted 18-08-2020 13:50
wonderful report, thanks for sharing
Posted 31-03-2020 01:14
Greetings
I do hope everything is going well..
Thank you so much for sharing this report!!
I really felt great to go through it!!
Keep writing and sharing'!!
Green chers
Regards
Jasmine karki
Posted 30-03-2020 19:32
Great!
Posted 28-03-2020 08:26
Thanks for your report.
Posted 27-03-2020 00:37
Thanks for report
Posted 26-03-2020 10:53
Hello susmita
I hope you are doing your best
Great report
Green cheers!!
Sarah
Posted 21-03-2020 22:57
Great report.
Keep Writing
Posted 21-03-2020 02:12
Hello susmita
I hope you are doing well!
Nice report
Keep writing
Thank you so much for this report!
Looking forward to reading some more reports.
Green cheers!
Best regards
Hema
Posted 19-03-2020 11:33
Hello Susmita,
Nice Report on importance of Honeybee. Keep Writing .
Regards,
Adeety
Posted 18-03-2020 16:34
Thank you @ susmita
Posted 16-03-2020 12:51
Thank you @ Basanta
Posted 16-03-2020 12:51
Thank you @shreya dee
Posted 16-03-2020 12:50
Hello Susmita,
Bees are undoubtedly of multi purpose and beneficial too.Various ideas can be created to increase the number of bees so we as well as nature can get benefit.
Keep Writing.
Green Cheers,
Shreya
Posted 16-03-2020 10:32
Greetings susmita
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report.
I hope to read more from you.
Keep up with great works
Green cheers
Regards
Basanta
Posted 16-03-2020 10:11
Greetings Susmita
I hope you are doing well
Good report
Honey bees are friends of human
Thank you so much for this report
Keep writing
Regards
Sus
Posted 15-03-2020 15:24
Thank you @sandip
Posted 14-03-2020 13:52
Hello Susmita,
Honeybee are the most important living creature. Without them a large amount of pollination activity would not have taken.
Posted 14-03-2020 10:18
Thank you @prabha
Posted 13-03-2020 16:23
Hello Sushmita,
Bees are the most beneficial insect to be known in the world.So bees should be conserve so that we can save Earth.Plant more flowers to increase the number of honey bees.
Thank you for your wonderful piece of report!
Green cheers!
Regards,
Prabha Bhusal
Posted 13-03-2020 14:30