꿀벌을 공격적으로 만드는 것들

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What makes honey bees aggressive?

무엇이 꿀벌을 공격적으로 만드는가?

You’ve managed your honey bee colonies all spring and summer with no problem. Now and then an aggressive guard warned you off, but in general the bees were docile.

All of a sudden, however, the bees are angry. They fly at you. They form a dark cloud above their hive. They bury themselves in your pet’s fur. What gives?

Many aspects of a honey bee colony are cyclic in nature, and aggression is no exception. Honey bees have the ability to be aggressive at any time, but certain things set them off. In the late summer and early fall, more of these conditions exist.

Here are some of the factors that make for aggressive honey bees:

1. Queenlessness is frequently a cause of feisty bees. The bad behavior usually stops as soon as the colony or the beekeeper replaces the queen. (여왕벌이 없으면 거침이 없이 행동이 얌전하지 않다.)

2. A shortage of nectar-producing flowers is called a nectar dearth. The bees can’t find nectar so they often try to steal it from other hives. This begins an aggressive behavior known as robbing. (꽃꿀을 분비하는 꽃들이 부족하면 꿀벌들이 공격적으로 되고 도봉도 발생한다.)

3. Not only are robbing bees aggressive, but the bees being robbed become aggressive defenders of their stores. This often results in a cloud of bees around a hive, especially in the fall.

Look carefully. If robbing is going on, you will see bees fighting with each other at the hive entrance. The ground in front of the hive may be littered with dead honey bees. (도봉은 공격적일 뿐만 아니라 도봉과 방어하는 군집이 죽기살기로 나들문 앞에서 싸워서 죽은 꿀벌들이 벌통 앞의 당에 즐비하게 늘어져 있다. 이것이 도봉으로 인해서 발생하는 무서운 손실이다. 어떻게 보면 말벌보다 도봉이 더 무서운 것이다. 초기에 진압해야 한다.)

4. The fighting bees release an alarm pheromone—an odor that warns other bees of the danger. The alarm pheromone makes other honey bees aggressive—more fighting means more pheromone is released which means more bees join the fray. The situation can escalate quickly.

Once the alarm pheromone has aroused the bees, you and your pets and your neighbors are fair game as well.

The odor of dead bees and the scent of honey being robbed attract other predators. Before long, wasps and yellow jackets have arrived on the scene to collect both meat and honey. This means more fighting and more alarm pheromone. What a mess. (싸우는 벌들이 경고 페로몬을 발산하면 다른 벌들이 떼로 달려들고 공격적으로 사나워진다.)

5. Honey bees and wasps are not the only creatures preparing for winter. Colonies in the fall may be attacked by raccoons, opossums, or skunks. Regular visits by any creature—including a beekeeper—may make honey bees more aggressive. (말벌이나 너구리, 주머니쥐, 개구리, 두꺼비, 스컹크, 개미 등의 공격을 받으면 공격적으로 바뀐다.)

6. Rainy weather, especially when it comes with heat and high humidity, makes bees cranky as well. During the “dog days of summer” no amount of fanning helps evaporate the nectar or cool the hive. (비가 오고 바람부는 날씨, 덥고 습도가 높은 날씨에도 꿀벌들이 공격적으로 된다.)

Of course, other factors can produce an aggressive hive. If the queen was superseded by a queen with more aggressive or Africanized genes, that could be the source of the problem. This is unlikely, however. More often than not aggressive behavior is merely a part of the cyclic nature of honey bee colonies. (만약 여왕벌이 더 공격적인 또는 아프리산 유전자를 가진 여왕벌로 갱신되면 문제의 원인이 될 수 있다. 대개 공격적 성향은 꿀벌군집들의 순환적인 특성의 일부일 뿐이기 때문이다.)

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[한결]

수준 높고 귀한 자료입니다. 감사합니다.
1번은 거침이 없이 얌전하지 않다면 사납다고 받아들여지는데
여왕벌이 없어지면 실제로는 일벌들이 불안해하는 모습이 보입니다.
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