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Where do africanized honey bees live?
Africanized honey bees started in Brazil and have gradually worked their way north to as far as Texas.
How do bees ferry water back to the hive?
They carry it in the honey crop, in the same way as nectar. They won't forage for nectar and water on the same trip.
How do you tell honey bee from africanized bee?
There is no obvious physical difference between Africanized honey bees and European honey bees. The only way of distinguishing is by DNA analysis.
How did the pioneers get the bees away from the hive and how did they get the honey from the honeycomb?
Before 1850, the only way to retrieve the honey was to drive the bees away, often by using lots of smoke but this usually killed the bees. Once the bees were gone you could do anything you wanted to do with the honey comb.
How have other organisms been affected with killer bees?
'Killer bees' -- more properly called Africanized honey bees -- have no more or less effect on the ecosystem than do any other honey bees. They are the same size and have the same foraging habits and pollinate the same plants in the same way.
Is there a way to tell African bees from honey bees?
You can tell that bees may have become africanized by how "hot" a hive is, meaning that the bees becomes very violent with a lot of bees trying to sting you and chasing after you long distances, but this does not necessarily mean that they have become africanized. The only way to truly confirm that they are africanized is that you send some dead bees to a lab to have its wings measured as africanized bees have smaller wings than other types of bees.
How is honey obtained from bees?
After the bees have made the honey, they store it in honeycombs; small cells sealed with wax. If these honeycombs are made a certain way, they can be remover and replaced easily. A beekeeper takes out the honeycomb, cuts the wax off, and lets the honey flow out into a collection container (then replaces the used honeycomb). The honey is then taken away and processed into what we see in the jars at the supermarket.
What are two reasons honey bees are beneficial?
every spring and summer,bees produce over 10,000 pounds of honey each year. but scientific studies show that bees don't accutally eat honey. they just invent it. so every year we get lots of honey!another way bees are very benificial is that flowers can't survive without them.the pollen in the the flowers NEEDS to be taken out in order for it to grow. so because of bees we have flowers and honey.
How do honey bees carry nectar?
Honey bees carry pollen and nectar in two ways. The most common way is by the hairs on their legs and stomach which pollen sticks to. Some bees also have hollow areas on their legs which can carry food as well.
How can i catch the swarm of bees?
There are multiple ways to catch a swarm of bees. One way to catch a swarm is to use a smoker.
Why do you need to feed the bees after taking there honey?
The honey that bees produce is to feed themselves during the winter. If a beekeeper removes all of their honey, the bees would die of starvation during the winter as they have no way of replenishing their lost stores (no flowers in the winter). The bees are usually fed sugar syrup - a mixture of ordinary granulated sugar mixed with water.
Do people keeep bumble bees like they keep honey bees?
We can't keep bumble bees in the same way we keep honey bees. There are several reasons for this:Bumble bees tend to be either solitary or live in very small colonies, compared to the honey bee hive of around 60,000 bees in the summer.Honey bees make more honey than they need, and this is what we collect. Bumble bees do make honey, but only in very small amounts. At the most you would collect about a tablespoonful of honey from a bumble bee nest.Bumble bees won't live in hives.A honey bee colony lives through the winter (they don't hibernate), so you still have the colony in spring. At the end of summer newly-mated bumble bee queens fly off to find somewhere to hibernate through the winter; all other bumble bees die as the cold weather comes.WRONG. The person who gave this answer has no idea what they are talking about. Bumble bees are commonly kept as pollinators, especially for indoor greenhouse crops like tomatoes. Google it.
