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Do bees carry honey?
The only time that bees carry honey is when they are swarming.
Do all bees in a hive share the work to make honey?
No. The drones (male bees) don't do any work, and not all of the workers are involved with honey production all of the time, though all workers will at some time make honey. The queen's only task is to lay eggs, and she never makes honey.
How many different honey bees live a hive?
3 different honey bees. 1) Queen bee ( lays eggs) 2)Drones ( they do not work just help in reproduction) 3)Workers(work al the time)
What does the bees use to thin the honey?
The Bees keep balance honey to use when non seson time.
Do both female and male bees make honey?
No, only the female worker bees make honey. The female queen bee and the male drone bees do not make or gather food themselves. The queen spends her time laying eggs while the drones have only one purpose, to mate with a queen when she is on her one and only mating flight. The drones are only produced in the spring/summer and are killed off each year once their job is done. For more info on bees, see the Related Link below ;-) http://www.backyardbeekeepers.com/facts.html
When is the best time to rob honey bees?
The best time to rob honey bees is in he springtime when flowers and fruit orchards begin to bloom. If you rob the bees when there is no supply of nectar, the bees will not have enough honey to weather the winter.
Is it better to kill bees in the fall or winter?
You shouldn't kill honey bees at any time of the year. If you have a problem with honey bees, firstly contact a beekeeper.
What time of day do honey bees fly?
Honey bees will fly when the air temperature is above approximately 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit), so the answer to your question will depend on the time of the year and your location in the world. Bumble bees will fly in lower temperatures than honey bees.
Is beekeeping inhumane?
Keeping bees is no more inhumane than any other domestic animals. In fact, because the beekeeper will protect them against animals and disease. They always make sure the hive has enough resources to survive the winter. Beekeeping is inhumane. Not only does it disrupt the bees natural system, it causes bees to do more work than otherwise needed. Humans have a negative impact on bees, their hive, and their colony. Beekeeping is not the right thing to do for numerous reasons. Keeping bees disturbs the bee's natural habit. It is different from the wild, and that is not a good thing. We are taking their honey that they work for. It takes them endless hours to make one ounce of honey, and we are taking that away from them. The honey they make is food for the queen and worker bees in the winter. The honey farmers probably don't think twice about taking the honey, and only think of the benefit the honey will bring he or she once they sell it. Then, humans eat the honey, most thinking not of the fact that it was taken from bees, but that it is delectable. That, in its self, is inhumane. Bees then have to collect enough nectar to replace the honey. Therefore, this is one of the reasons why beekeeping is inhumane. Another thing beekeepers do (which in my opinion is selfish) is taking the queen bee of the colony, and selling it to another beekeeper that wants to keep bees. Queen bees should leave or die when the time is right, not when one needs money. Then worker bees have to work to make a new queen by selecting several larvae to be fed the royal jelly, to make them the queen. This causes bees to do work that would be unnecessary if their queen bee hadn't been taken away. Most beekeepers that sell honey and queen bees are only thinking of their benefit, and not of the bees benefit, though they don't have many. This is wrong, and shouldn't happen.
How many bees are in one hive?
A typical honey bee hive can house anywhere from 10,000 to 60,000 bees, depending on the time of year and the strength of the colony. This population includes worker bees, drones, and the queen bee.
Is spring the time bees mate?
Not necessarily. For honey bees new queens are produced any time from spring to late summer, and they will mate about a week after they emerge from the pupal cell. With bumble bees, new queens are produced towards the end of summer and they will mate before cold weather comes, then hibernate through the winter.
How does a beekeeper make the bees go inside the hive?
They normally start by locating a dark enclosed, dry space (in a tree trunk, roof or wall cavity - or indeed a man made hive). The colony of bees including the queen move into this and the worker bees use honey that they have stored in their tummies as they left their original hive to make wax (bees wax). they chew up this wax and shape it into a new comb with hexagonal cells. The queen lays new eggs in this and the new colony starts. With more bees, more time, and more comb is produced to store honey and brood young and the new hive becomes established. A resinous substance collected from the buds of certain trees (called Propolis) is used by the bees as a cement or sealant to plug up any gaps in the the walls of the hive so that predators can not get in and the hive entrance is guarded by young workers.
