Pollen is the flower pollen. This feed contains all the elements necessary for plant and animal life. The content of vitamins, enzymes, and hormones high.
Pollen is a fine material like powder contained at the end of flower stamens. The color is yellowish. Bees get it while looking for nectar in flowers. By bees, pollen was cleared with his feet, and then stored in the 'basket' special for pollen.Search results were then taken back to the nest. In the hive, pollen is placed in a storage cell by pressing her head wear. Pollen stored near the bee larvae, so it is easily available at any feed the larvae. Larvae that spent most of this pollen supplies.Pollen for bees is like meat, fish, eggs, and other similar food for humans that all provide protein substances, which are necessary nutrients to build muscle and flesh in the body of the bee.The bee's body, covered with fur, feathers and feet were full of thorns little smoother. When insects visit flowers and flower leaned in, touching his fur dna swipe anthers. As a result, flower pollen that bees were seized with attached body.
1. Pollen collection
Pollen that sticks to the body are collected by a pair of front legs which are also hairy, then transferred to the middle leg, and finally to the back foot. At the back of the calf of the leg there are indentations called 'pollen basket'. In the pollen basket pollen is collected to be transported back to the nest. When fully charged, it can load the basket pollen as much as 20 times the weight of the body of the bee. With the load speed bees fly STAYED one kilometer per three minutes.In the middle distance there are some subtle delicate spines are used to remove clot stored pollen in the pollen basket. Clumps of pollen stored in the warehouse supplies contained in the hive.
2. Pollen Benefits
For bees, pollen and honey is an important food source. A mixture of honey and pollen is called "bee bread '. The material is used as a staple food for rearing bee larvae.Young larvae are not directly fed with pollen. Worker bees use the pollen to make a special feed of the glands in the head. Bees give the larvae a mixture of honey and pollen, which is called "bee bread '. Feed it be eaten and digested larvae.Pollen is the only source of protein for the bees naturally available. The influence of feed rate and lifetime breeding bees.Pollen protein content of less than 20% can not meet the needs of the colony to produce optimally. Strong colonies require pollen sebanya 55 kg per year. If persediaanya less than that, the bees will use his body to continue functioning protein so that the protein content of the body can be decreased from 54% to 27%.At the protein level of 27%, the growth of colonies of bees will stop, unless there is added sugar. Unfortunately, there is no substitute for long-term pollen are effective and economical.Combination with human pollen can be used to treat hypertonic because it contains vitamins A, B, C, and P are high. He also useful for preventing cerebral hemorrhage, protect the lining of the eye, and protects the lining of the heart.In komestika industry, pollen mixture used for the manufacture of creams because it is very useful to prevent damage to the skin, especially for women