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What do the bees do with the pollen once they get it back to the hive?
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They store it for food. It is a rich source of protein.
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Do bees move a natural hive?
A hive is an artificial home provided for honey bees by a beekeeper. Once bees are settled in the hive (or wild colony), they usually stay there and don't move.
What does a worker bee do?
Worker bees are female bees that are not able to reproduce. They are capable of performing all the jobs in the hive. As they grow, worker bees have different tasks to perform. They start off by doing tasks within the hive, such as cleaning cells and feeding larvae. Once they are mature enough, they start receiving nectar and pollen from bees that bring it in from the fields. They use these to make wax and build new cells within the hive. Their last job all the way until their death is to guard the hive entrance and retrieve nectar and pollen from outside the hive.
Are bees allergic to pollen?
Young queens when they emerge from hibernation will feed on flower nectar until they have started a nest and have larvae. At this time they will be pollinators. Once there are larvae, the adult hornets feed on a form of honeydew from the larvae, so they no longer visit flowers.
Can you remove a hive located outside once most of the bees are dead?
No. If there are still some bees alive, you can get seriously stung. And Trying to move the hive will make the bees madder.
Why do bees make bee hives?
Obviously bees don't make the hives - humans do that. The hives we see today were designed to make it easier to keep bees and harvest honey. Before the current type of hive, it was necessary for the beekeeper to destroy the nest each autumn in order to take the honey.
What is one way that pollen can get from the anther of a flower to the stigma of another flower?
It is transferred by wind or bees.
What do bees do when the get the pollen?
Once a bee has collected pollen, he travels down into the bottom of a flower. This is where the nectary is - the component of a plant that produces a sweet, orange substance named nectar. The bee drinks the nectar, still covered in pollen, and comes back out of the flower - again, passing the anthers which gets it covered even more in pollen. The bee then flies to another flower, passing the pollen covered anthers, and inserting the pollen into the stigma - a sticky "landing pad" for the pollen. The bee then travels to the nectary, and the cycle begins again.
Do worker bees sting if their honey is bingeing stolen?
Worker bees will respond to any intrusion that they perceive as a threat to their hive or colony. That obviously includes any person, animal or insect attempting to remove their honey - which the bees need to live on. For example, you will often see a wasp being attacked at the entrance to a hive as the wasp tries to get in to steal honey. Beekeepers use a variety of methods to enable them to remove the honey from a hive without being attacked. One of the key ways is by inserting a board, just under the top box of a hive, with a sort of one-way entrance in it. Once the bees leave that box they are unable to get back in. Thus the beekeeper is able to remove the box of honey with most, if not all, of the bees gone from it.
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.
Why are bees eating their own honey?
Bees eat their own honey because that's what they live off of throughout the year, especially during colder months when there are little or no blooming plants for the bees to collect the nectar for the hive. To better understand this, we need to know exactly what a hive is, and I think once you understand what a hive is, the rest will make sense. From the dictionary a hive is a place "to store or lay away for future use or enjoyment." That being said, that is what bees do. They store wax and honey for lean months. As a beekeeper, we take the comb from the hive from time to time to extract the honey for our own use. When we do this, the bees naturally continue to make wax, honey, and propolis. They don't realize that the comb is full of honey is gone, they just know that there is an empty space that they need to create more wax and honey in. When fall comes, the beekeeper, if he is managing his hive properly, will leave in the hive as many combs full of honey to sustain them through the bees winter months. That's why bees eat their own honey.
What purpose do drone bees serve?
The drones are the male bees. The queen and worker bees are all female. The only purpose of a drone is to mate with a new queen. Once mating has finished the drone will die. Within the hive, the drones have no function and do no work. As autumn turns to winter all of the drones in the hive will be thrown out by the worker bees and will die. New drones will be produced at the start of the next season.
Once you have destroyed a hive will they return to the same place to make another one?
It depends on the species. Some bumble bees or wasps may. Honey bees that were away foraging will return to where the hive was, but without the queen they can't survive as a colony for very long. If the queen has survived they may make a new nest.
