0
Want this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Why do Apple farmers purchase bees?
Apple farmers need bees to pollinate their apple trees. Where bees have been eradicated by pesticides, more bees, or hand pollination, are necessary for the trees to bear fruit.
How do bees affect the economy?
The almond orchards of California are pollinated by honey bees. No bees means no pollination. No pollination means no almonds. Result - economic disaster for the almond growers.
At what price is pure honey sold in the market?
I find it at the Farmers market here starting about 8.00 per bottle. I use a lot of honey so I always check.
Why were cash crops important?
Cash crops are important because they help farmers earn money to live on. They allow farmers to produce food for many people, instead of just their families.
Economic importance of class insecta?
Insects that carry diseases or negatively affect crops or livestock are commonly called pest species. These pests can have an adverse economic effect if they eat food intended for human consumption or cause disease in plants or livestock. This decreases farmers' yield and profit, and also decreases the food available to an area's population.
Why do farmers breed honey bees?
Farmers don't usually breed honey bees, but they do need them for pollination purposes depending on the type of farm. For example, a livestock farmer doesn't need bees but a fruit farmer definitely does need bees.
Aside from honey what is another benefit that farmers get from bees?
Honey bees benefit the farmer through pollination of many fruit, nut and vegetable crops.
What is sticky and sweet and comes from bees?
honey hence the name honey bees Honey bees also produce bees wax by converting honey.
Why do farmers choose to have honey bees pollinate their apples as opposed to other bee species?
Honey bees live in a colony of around 50,000 bees in the season so there are more of them when needed. Bumble bees might have only 50 bees in a nest but are still used when growing fruit in polytunnels.
Why are hoey bees important if you want to keep growing plants?
Honey bees pollinate plants. If you were a fruit farmer, you might have to depend on honey bees brought to you by a bee farmer to pollinate your crop. There aren't enough bees or other insects in a given area to pollinate all of a fruit farmers crop without importing honey bees from another area.
Were honey cam from?
Honey comes from Bees like Honey Bees.
How were bees used in the Tudor Times?
sugar was a luxury so instead they used honey to sweeten things
Do bees produce honey?
Do honey bees produce WHAT? If the question is "honey", then yes, HONEY bees produce HONEY. If the question is NOT "honey", I'm afraid I can't help you.
Do beekeepers want bumble bees?
No honey bees for the honey.
What are honey bees afraid of?
Honey bees are afraid of smoke
What honey bees?
Birds are the main predators of honey bees.
Are honey bees the only bees that make honey?
No, honey bees are not the only bees that make honey. The bees in question (Apis spp) just happen to be the most famous of the world's natural honey-makers. Other apian examples include bumble and stingless bees.
