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Can bees breathe carbon monoxide?
No, bees cannot breathe carbon monoxide. Like most insects, bees do not have lungs to breathe air like humans; instead, they have a series of tiny tubes called tracheae that deliver oxygen directly to their cells. Carbon monoxide can be toxic to bees and interfere with their respiratory system.
Why do bees put honey in the honeycomb?
Bees store honey in honeycomb cells as a food source. The honey provides nourishment for the bees during times when food is scarce, such as winter, and also serves as a source of energy to forage and perform other tasks for the hive. Honey is made by bees collecting nectar from flowers and then dehydrating and storing it in the honeycomb cells.
Do honey bees re use old wax?
Yes, honey bees recycle old wax by reusing it to build new honeycomb cells. They chew and soften the old wax to mold it into shape for creating new cells, reducing energy consumption and resources needed for wax production. This behavior helps honey bee colonies operate efficiently and sustainably.
Why is a sperm cell similar to a pollen cell?
Yes, it is the plant version of the male reproductive cells. That is where the phrase "birds and bees" came from and how it connects to human reproduction. The birds and bees carry the pollen to the pistils of other plants. Plants cannot get up and walk over to a partner and mate them, so birds, bees, and wind carry the pollen to other plants.
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.
Why has your honey supers chrystalised?
Some crops produce a nectar which has a high level of glucose. The higher the level of glucose in honey the quicker it will crystalize. Beekeepers need to be aware if their bees are foraging from these sorts of crops and must extract the honey from the supers (where the bees store the honey) as soon as the cells are capped.Allowing the honey to crystalize in the cells is a waste because it becomes very difficult to extract, and if you decide to leave it for the bees they have difficulty eating it.
How many boxes for 15000 honey bees?
One brood box and as many supers as you need.
When to add supers to bee hives?
If you know about adding supers you must be a beekeeper and therefore this is not the right site to ask this type of question because you may well get an incorrect answer. Join your local beekeepers and be guided by them. But just this once I will answer your question. When all of the foundation has been drawn in your brood box and 4/5 of your frames are covered in bees, put on your Queen excluder and add a super. When that super is 4/5 full, add another and so on. If your bees are foraging on OSR, you need to remove your supers as soon as possible after they are capped and extract otherwise your honey will crystallize. If they are foraging on anything else you can leave the supers on until the end of the season.
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 structures do the honeybee use to build their homes?
Bees build their homes in honeycombs. The honeycombs are a series of hexagonal cells. See related links for a drawing showing the parts of a domestic honeybee hive.
Where bees get born?
Bees are born in a honeycomb within a beehive. The queen bee lays eggs in the honeycomb cells, and the larvae hatch from these eggs. They undergo a transformation process inside the cells before emerging as adult bees.
What shape do bees make use to make a beehive?
The cells made by bees in a hive are all hexagons.
Where do bees save their honey?
In hexagonal cells in their hive.
How do worker bees prepare queen cells?
sometimes
Are bumble bees multicellular?
Yes, bumble bees are multicellular, as they have multiple cells that comprise the different parts of their body.
Which polygon is used by bees?
Honeycomb cells are hexagonal.
Do queen bees develop in the largest brood cells?
Yes.
