When swarming, bee scouts look for a cavity of around 40-50 litres.
Most beehives tend to be about twice this size, although it's impossible to be precise, because they are usually modular, and thus expandable.
About 20,000 to 30,000 honeybees can make up a hive. The population involves a queen as well as drones, larvae, larval queens, and worker bees. The biggest representation is by the females who do the work inside and outside the hive whereas the male bees (drones) represent a few hundred in many cases and a few thousand in rare instances.
Between 10 and 80 thousand, depending on the time of year and quality of the Queen.
It depends on the size of the hive, but usually 50 to 60 thousand in the summer
a hive can get up to 0ne million pounds!
it depends on the size of the hive.
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Usually about half of the bees in the hive leave in a swarm. The average hive can peak at around 60,000 bees, so it is reasonable to expect a swarm to be anything up to about 30,000 bees.
Yes, and they always do so outside of the hive.
It may appear that bees are foraging in a group because there are so many of them, but each bee is working on its own. When a bee returns to the hive after finding a new source of nectar it communicates the location and type of plant to other bees in the hive, and they then will go to the same place to forage.
A bee's home is called a hive. Many people keep bee hives so that they can regularly harvest their honey.
Some bumble bees hibernate, but honey bees don't. However, bees won't leave the hive if the air temperature is too low (below about 14oC/57oF), so if spring is late or cold this will delay the bees' emergence.
Usually about half of the bees in the hive leave in a swarm. The average hive can peak at around 60,000 bees, so it is reasonable to expect a swarm to be anything up to about 30,000 bees.
Because the hive is always at work along with taking care of the queen bee.
There are up to 80000 bees in a hive so it would be quite difficult to give them all a name!
Yes, and they always do so outside of the hive.
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.
no but in the bee movie they do so they might you never know cause we can't fit in a bee hive so we can't look in their wardrobe to see what they wear anyway
It may appear that bees are foraging in a group because there are so many of them, but each bee is working on its own. When a bee returns to the hive after finding a new source of nectar it communicates the location and type of plant to other bees in the hive, and they then will go to the same place to forage.
Yea it sounds like you have a bee hive... You can contact a local pest/bug control place and some will take care of it for you
A bee's home is called a hive. Many people keep bee hives so that they can regularly harvest their honey.
If you have a bee hive, you are a beekeeper, so join your local beekeeping group and you won't have to ask questions on this site.
Some tropical bees can and the European hornets fly at night.
Bees like to be in a dark place so there are two methods of getting a swarm into a hive. The fastest way is to shake the bees out of the container that they are in, straight onto the top of the frames that are inside the hive and replace the roof of the hive thereby leaving them in the dark and giving them the chance to settle down. If you have time available, it is much more interesting to watch them walk into the hive by themselves. Every hive has a small entrance for the bees near the bottom of the hive. You place a ramp from the ground to the entrance of the hive and shake the bees out of the container that they are in, onto the ramp. When the bees find the hive entrance and realise that it is dark inside, they will start to walk into the hive but as it is a small entrance and there are lots of bees, it will probably take about an hour for them all to get in.