Why are bees so much? Bashny.Net

Like and it seems that bees have always been a lot, but I wanted to understand why? Can evolution? Or maybe just right? About bees and will be discussed under the cut.




Looking ahead to say — no, the bees as much as it should be

The back story of the bees
Like most animals in the beginning, bees were not as many as lately.
But over time the bees have learned to produce honey very productive, resulting in a large amount of energy remained for the winter. This prompted the bees to the ability to afford to spend the winter, despite the fact that it will require a lot of energy.

Be the first to vyvazovani bees began in the course of evolution.

The wintering process
When bees overwinter, then they are going to a big club and migrate through the honeycomb. Why? All because bees move around in the club to keep him warm. And lower layers can, fortified with honey and warmed up, again to go to upper layers and warm all the bees inside the club.




Assessment of wintering
Note further we assume that the shape of a bee is cubic And shape of the club then, too, CC

One bee allocates power to all 6 sides proportional to the square of the long edges of the cube (which is equal to r) in the absorption of honey. At the same time, the whole club requires energy, too, with all 6 sides, is also proportional to the square of the length of the cube ®. And the number of bees in the club you can count as N=R*R*R/(r*r*r).

Here you can obtain the time at which the club can bees live in the winter, it is the lifetime of one bee, multiplied by the number of bees, the bees and dissipation divided by the absorption of heat by the club bees:

T=t*N*(r*r*6)/(R*R*6)=t*N^(1/3)

Further, we assume that the bee is in bad conditions lives of 5 days and up to 35.

Numerical examples
For example 27000 individuals can survive about 5*27000^(1/3)=150 days, in that time, 512 bees can reach only about 40 days.

The second vivalaleta bees for winter should be large enough to survive the winter.

Spring life
More on this question and ended, but there are still six months, about which still nothing was said. Why spring them too much? In the summer? But it is easier than in the winter. A large number of bees in the spring due to many factors:

• Preparing for winter (gathering nectar, water, materials and other things)
• Protection from pests/parasites/OS (protect the hive from attacks on the uterus and honey)
• Preparing for the disintegration of the family hive (uterus leaves the hive, taking some of the bees with you to build a new hive)

Alternative version
To be more objective, consider the close relatives of bees — bumblebees.
Bumblebees do not overwinter, and harvested a little honey (for a few days, to protect yourself from the weather), every year they have a new colony and a new nest.

This is the development path of bees if they have not learned to collect a large amount of honey.





The third Vivadent the kind that went the other way, unlike bees and survived until our days.

In conclusion
Life of bees, like many other social animals, intriguing and interesting in terms of studying. Maybe someone is demotiviruet to begin to explore the animal world or at least maintain their observations of different animals.

P. S. If something is not right, then I will be glad to be corrected.
P. P. S. the Material is collected for the Tournament of the Three Sciences for me and my teammates, for which they thank you!




Source: geektimes.ru/post/281034/