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a honey bee's queen. The queen of a hive sole job is to contribute her DNA to the population of the hive. Because the queen preserves male sperm in her body from several males (drones), the character of the brood will change. A queen the steered or pushed over the nursery comb and will lay over 2000 eggs a day. A queen can easily live over 3 years as long as the workers keep her warm in the winter and dry.
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What are facts about honey bees?
stay away from them is #1Honey bees are a species of bees. The queen gets fed and only the queen lays eggs.The drones only mate with the queen. The queen mates with 8 drones and lays more than 1000 eggs per day. And honey bee's eat pollen.
Are honey bees over populated?
No, the more honey bees the more honey for us
Which bees lay eggs?
If by "which bees" you mean which sub-species or type of bee then the answer is: all of them. Honey bees, bumble bees, miner bees - the lot. If however you mean the sex or caste of bee then the simple answer is that it is the queen bee - which is a female - who lays eggs. But there is a more complex answer that is more accurate. If we think about honey bees then the worker bees - who are also female - are physically able to lay eggs too. However, their eggs can only hatch into male bees (drones) and their inclination to lay is usually hormonally suppressed when a fertile queen is present.
What is the difference between honeybees and bumblebees?
Body shape is different: a honey bee's body is similar to that of a wasp, while the bumble bee has a round body. The bumble bee is also known for it's hairy or fuzzy appearance. Honey bees, although having a fine hairs appear much smoother. Bumble bees are also usually black and yellow in colour, honey bees more shades of brown. Bumble bees are similar to honey bees in that a hive will consist of a queen, female worker bees, and male drones, who are responsible for mating with the queen. They do produce honey, but in very small amounts, so they are not used for commercial honey production. Another similarity is that only the females possess stingers. Bumble bees tend to live in fairly small nests, which are usually in the ground. For this reason, they do not swarm like honey bees. Bumble bees can thrive in colder climates than most honey bees because they can regulate their body temperature and they have furry bodies. With many bumble bee varieties, only the queen will survive over the winter, and she hibernates in her nest. Honey bees do not hibernate, and although the drones are evicted from the hive at the end of summer and die, the queen and workers over-winter in the hive, taking the opportunity to forage whenever the air temperature is high enough.
Do bees like fragrensed honey or regular honey more?
they like regular honey
Which is right - catch more bees with honey or catch more flies with honey?
Them saying is you can catch more flies with honey.
How do you build a beehive to farm honey?
They go to the flower, and pollinate the Queen Bee, who makes the honey and then she makes the Worker Bees pollinate HER. Then she makes more Worker 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.
What are the functions of two story langstroth frame hive?
Most beehives, whether Langstroth or other designs, can be multi-level. The queen lives in the bottom chamber together with the other bees, and it is here that the eggs are laid in cells and the larvae grow and pupate. The bees also store some honey and pollen near the brood ready for feeding to the larvae. When there is a good supply of nectar from the flowers the bees will make more honey than they need for immediate consumption, and they will tend to store it above the brood cells. Beekeepers place a special grid called a queen excluder above the brood chamber and then put another box containing more combs above it. The worker bees can get through the queen excluder, but the queen can't because she is just too big. The bees will store honey in this upper box, called a super (from super, meaning above) but as the queen can't get in, there will be no eggs or brood. When the beekeeper takes honey from the hive, he only takes it from the super. If there is a really good flow of nectar, there may be two, three, or even more supers on the hive.
What are the functions of two-story langstroth frame hive?
Most beehives, whether Langstroth or other designs, can be multi-level. The queen lives in the bottom chamber together with the other bees, and it is here that the eggs are laid in cells and the larvae grow and pupate. The bees also store some honey and pollen near the brood ready for feeding to the larvae. When there is a good supply of nectar from the flowers the bees will make more honey than they need for immediate consumption, and they will tend to store it above the brood cells. Beekeepers place a special grid called a queen excluder above the brood chamber and then put another box containing more combs above it. The worker bees can get through the queen excluder, but the queen can't because she is just too big. The bees will store honey in this upper box, called a super (from super, meaning above) but as the queen can't get in, there will be no eggs or brood. When the beekeeper takes honey from the hive, he only takes it from the super. If there is a really good flow of nectar, there may be two, three, or even more supers on the hive.
What is Cassius' response to Antony's insult?
its something about honey and bees and more of bees
Is the Africanized honey bee damaging the environment it now lives in?
An Africanized honey bee is just a bee with attitude. Apart from that there are no significant physical differences between Africanized bees and Western honey bees -- in fact the only way to be sure which type of bee you have is DNA analysis. For this reason, Africanized bees are no more damaging to the environment than any other bees. In fact, all bees are essential to maintain the environment as we know it.
