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The comb cells in a bee hive are of a hexagonal (six sided) shape and have three main purposes.
1) Raising of brood. The queen bee will lay an egg in an empty cell and after three days the egg will change into a small larva. The other bees in the colony will then feed the larva with pollen and seal the cell with wax. After 21 days from the time that the egg was laid, the larva will have grown into a fully formed worker bee and will eat its way out of the sealed cell having sustained itself by eating the pollen that had been stored in its cell before it was sealed.
2) The worker bees, having collected nectar from various plants, will mix it with enzymes to produce honey and that honey will be deposited in a cell and allowed to ripen. When it is ripe, the worker bees will seal the cell with wax as above.
3) Pollen collected from plants will be stored in separate cells near the brood nest and used as a 'larder' for feeding larvae as above. Cells containing pollen don't need a wax cap.
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Why are bees hive hexaonal?
A bee hive isn't hexagonal. The cells that bees make from wax inside a bee hive are hexagonal and the bees use these cells to raise young bees and to store honey and pollen.
What do you call a bee house?
Honey bees live in a nest, often called a 'hive.' One hive can hold up to 80,000 bees, most of them workers. It is often located in a hollow tree. The hive is made of honeycomb, which are tightly packed hexagonal cells made of beeswax. They use the hive to store food and house their young.
What shape are the cells in a bee hive and how do they contribute to the overall structure and function of the hive?
The cells in a bee hive are hexagonal in shape. This shape allows for efficient use of space and optimal storage of honey, pollen, and eggs. The uniformity of the cells also helps in maintaining the structural integrity of the hive. The hexagonal shape of the cells allows bees to maximize storage capacity while minimizing the amount of wax needed to construct the hive.
When and where do bees breed?
In the hive. the queen bee's sons breed with theri mother. The main use of male bees is breeding with the queen bee
How do you use a bee hive in viva pinata?
You feed your buzzelgum a buttercup and a small honey picture will be above the buzzelgums head you drag him to the bee hive and the buzzelgum will produce the honey,the honey will fly out of the hive and it will sell for about 150 chocolate coins.
What shape do bees make use to make a beehive?
The cells made by bees in a hive are all hexagons.
What is a honey bees hive made out if?
A honey bee's hive is primarily made of beeswax, which the worker bees produce from special glands on their abdomens. They use this wax to construct hexagonal cells for storing honey, pollen, and raising their young. The hive also includes propolis, a sticky resin collected from trees, which bees use to seal cracks and maintain hive integrity. Additionally, the hive structure is often enhanced with materials like pollen and other natural substances to provide insulation and protection.
What do bees use their long tongues to do?
they put nectar on their tongue to absorb all the water from the nectar and take to the bee hive
How is a honeycomb made?
sweet wax is produced from the abdomen of worker bees and it passes through its mouth where the bee chews it to make it soft for making the honeycombBeeswax is a natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bees of the genus Apis. It is mainly esters of fatty acids and various long chain alcohols.It is secreted by the bees from glands on their abdomens.
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.
What is the use of Bee Hive shelf?
to store bee hives.....
Can or cannot bees within one hive comunicate with bees from another?
Bees within one hive can communicate with bees from another hive through scent trails, which they use to signal the location of food sources or new hive locations. This communication enables bees to share information and resources with bees from different hives within the same colony.
